Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 426
U.S. Religious Progressivism “Way of the Future”
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, May 02 (IPS) - The future of religion in U.S. politics lies not with conservatives but rather with religious progressives, social scientists here are suggesting, with a faith-based movement potentially able to provide momentum to a new movement for social justice.
Displaced and Disturbed in Pakistan
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, May 02 (IPS) - Every night in his sleep, Rizwan Ahmed sees his sons being killed. "When he wakes up, he starts crying. He realises they are dead and it was the nightmare he has been having," says Dr. Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the psychiatrist treating him.
Calls to Legalise Tanzania’s Charcoal Trade to Save Forests
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Apr 30 (IPS) - Tanzania's government has been urged to embrace sustainable charcoal production to protect the country's forest cover amidst failed attempts to abolish the local charcoal trade.
DR Congo’s Red Light to Invention
- Inter Press Service
GOMA, DR Congo, Apr 30 (IPS) - "There are several robots in the world, but that one which regulates traffic is made in Congo," Thérèse Izayi, a female engineer and the Congolese inventor of two very unusual traffic signals, tells IPS.
Kenya’s Nationwide Clampdown on Islamic Extremism ‘Counterproductive’
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Apr 29 (IPS) - Kenya's government was warned by Muslim clerics about the radicalisation and recruitment of youths by Al-Shabaab six years ago but did not take action, says Sheikh Ahmed, a management committee member of the Council of Imams and Preachers of Kenya.
Villages in Ghana that No Longer Have Child Deaths to Record
- Inter Press Service
ZANDUA, Ghana, Apr 29 (IPS) - Zainab Abubakar saves children's lives. A few years ago she was just an ordinary woman with no medical training living in rural Kpilo in Ghana's Northern Region.
Morocco Divided Over Equality
- Inter Press Service
CASABLANCA, Apr 29 (IPS) - Morocco stands divided over a proposal for equal inheritance rights for men and women: modernists see this as application of equality arising from the new constitution, and Islamists see in this a violation of Sharia law.
Egyptian Quacks Mutilate Millions
- Inter Press Service
CAIRO, Apr 27 (IPS) - Saber Abd El-Mawgoud began his career with castrating sheep and goats before moving on to humans. His first human experiment was a young boy he attempted to circumcise back in 1999 on the insistence of the boy's father.
Going Beyond the Arms Trade Treaty to Secure Peace in Africa
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 25 (IPS) - Even as countries around the world have started to sign on to and ratify a landmark international treaty that would for the first time regulate the international trade in conventional weapons, experts here are warning that the treaty in itself will not be able to maintain peace and security in Africa.
Interfaith Leaders Jointly Call to Abolish Nuclear Arms
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Apr 25 (IPS) - On the eve of next week's meeting at the U.N. headquarters in New York on the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), more than 100 representatives of 11 faith groups from around the world have pledged to step up their efforts to seek the global abolition of nuclear weapons.
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