Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 430
Tanzania’s Farming Cooperatives Struggle to Bear Fruit
- Inter Press Service
ARUSHA, Tanzania, Apr 04 (IPS) - John Daffi climbs to the top of a hill overlooking a scenic Rift Valley wall and the Ngorongoro forest, where wildlife migrates between the world famous Ngorongoro crater and Tanzania's Lake Manyara. Daffi, 59, looks down upon his family's farm below and reminisces about the time his father first brought him here as a boy.
Misgivings Rise Over Afghan Poll
- Inter Press Service
FAIZABAD, Afghanistan, Apr 04 (IPS) - "If Abdullah will become president, the will of Afghan people will be respected. Otherwise – especially if Zalmai Rassoul will be indicated as the winner – a new conflict will start and our country will become more insecure." The remark by Abdullah Abdullah supporter Qazi Sadullah Abu Aman is typical of uncertainties and accusations rising as election day draws close on Saturday.
Using Ethiopia’s Healthcare Gaps to Do Good and Make a Profit
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Apr 03 (IPS) - For a while now, Magnetic Resonance Imaging or MRI scanners have typically been a luxury that both government and private hospitals in Ethiopia have struggled to afford to purchase for in-house use.
Africa’s Youth Not Lured by Unglamorous Farming
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS/ADDIS ABABA, Apr 02 (IPS) - Ketsela Negatu is the son of an Ethiopian goat farmer living close to the country's capital, Addis Ababa, who refuses to follow in his father's footsteps. The 19-year-old has negative perceptions about the family profession after seeing the dim prospects a farming livelihood has offered his father.
Afghans Set to Vote Along Ethnic Lines
- Inter Press Service
KABUL, Apr 02 (IPS) - Ethnicities will be to the fore in the Afghan elections due Saturday this week, even though some promise appears that the young are beginning to break away from such loyalties.
OP-ED: Europe’s Commitment to Africa’s Children is Still Needed
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Apr 01 (IPS) - As African and European leaders meet in Brussels this week under the theme of "Investing in People, Prosperity and Peace", it is clear Africa's greatest natural resource, its children, must be centre stage.
Somali Diaspora Not Ready to Buy One-Way Tickets Home Yet
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Mar 31 (IPS) - On a Friday afternoon men wearing long kamis — long white traditional robes — climb the steps to Somcity Travel, a small family business and travel agency in Kisenyi slum, in Uganda's capital, Kampala. The agency boasts that they "fly all over the world" but to one destination in particular — Somalia.
The Gambia’s Women Demand a Seat at the Political Table
- Inter Press Service
BANJUL, Mar 30 (IPS) - The countdown to the Gambia's 2016 general elections has begun with a rare move to bring together female politicians from across the divided political spectrum to ensure increased female representation.
Fighting Now Brings Disease
- Inter Press Service
DAMASCUS, Mar 29 (IPS) - For just that moment, the refugees in Yarmouk camp in Damascus made news. After months of facing starvation and death in the shadows of the Syrian civil war came packets of food and aid in January - with cameras in tow.
Sahel Food Crisis Overshadowed by Regional Conflict
- Inter Press Service
TUNIS, Mar 28 (IPS) - Still not enough is being done to improve the food emergency in Africa's Sahel Region as conflict and instability continue to exacerbate any response towards improving the situation where one in eight people suffer from food insecurity.
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