Global Issues
News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 431
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.
20 Years On - Rwanda Uses Genocide Reconciliation to Boost Economic Growth
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Mar 28 (IPS) - It's almost 20 years now since Sylidio Gashirabake, a Hutu, was a perpetrator in Rwanda's genocide. It's also almost 20 years since his neighbour, Augustin Kabogo, a Tutsi, lost his sister and family in the violence. But today, both men work side-by-side in their joint business venture in Kirehe district in southeastern Rwanda.
Ugandans Fight for the Right to Access Their Own Medical Records
- Inter Press Service
KAMPALA, Mar 27 (IPS) - Dressed in a white dress with black polka dots and pink and red carnations, white knee-high socks and matching patent shoes, Babirye, recently celebrated her second birthday.
Côte d’Ivoire’s Middle Class - Growing or Disappearing?
- Inter Press Service
ABIDJAN, Mar 27 (IPS) - "I'm middle class. Definitively," Sonia Anoh, a young and independent 30-year-old Ivorian tells IPS. Anoh has a master's degree, earns 1,470 dollars a month working in marketing, lives alone, owns a car and is now shopping for a home.
Ethiopia’s Textile Manufacturers Benefit from Global Interest
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Mar 26 (IPS) - The sign for Salem's directs you off a busy road in Addis Ababa, down a side street to a compound where multiple pairs of feet move up and down working treadles, and wooden shuttles flit back and forth, as Ethiopian sheumanoch — weavers — ply their trade.
Fighting a 'Losing' War With the Taliban
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Mar 26 (IPS) - Pakistan is in the midst of a heated debate on continuing military operations against the Taliban in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), especially after the brutal killing of 23 army soldiers last month.
Zimbabwe’s Growing Electronic Waste Becomes a Real Danger
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Mar 25 (IPS) - Electronic waste in Zimbabwe is becoming "an emerging environmental crisis that is by and large unheralded," according to Steady Kangata, the education and publicity manager of the government-run Environmental Management Agency (EMA).
Zimbabwe Traverses a Rugged Political Terrain
- Inter Press Service
HARARE, Mar 24 (IPS) - Leroy Muzamani from Zimbabwe's low income suburb, Highfield, sits with his chin resting on his hands.
World Bank Clears Congo’s Controversial Dam Project
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Mar 21 (IPS) - The World Bank Thursday approved a 73.1-million-dollar grant in support of a controversial giant dam project in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).
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