News headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”, page 95
Armed groups continue terror campaign across Burkina Faso
- UN News
Large parts of Burkina Faso are being terrorized by armed groups and the rampant insecurity is “beyond alarming”, said the UN human rights chief on Thursday following a brief visit to the country.
Managing Transboundary Aquifers for Peace
- Inter Press Service
PRETORIA, South Africa, Mar 20 (IPS) - Like surface waters, groundwater resources frequently cross international boundaries, potentially igniting disputes among nations that rely on this essential resource. Disagreements over shared groundwater can arise from various issues, such as inequitable resource distribution, competing water needs and economic dependencies, governance challenges, and the varying effects of climate change on water availability.
In Pakistan, Death Can Be Just a WhatsApp Share Away
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Mar 20 (IPS) - Justice Zafar Yab Chadhar's March 6 order sentencing 22-year-old Junaid Munir to ‘be hanged by his neck till he is dead’ on charges of sharing blasphemous material over WhatsApp was devastating for his family.
Conflict driving hunger crisis in Sudan, UN officials tell Security Council
- UN News
Eleven months of brutal fighting is driving a hunger crisis in Sudan, with some areas likely to experience catastrophic levels of food insecurity by the lean season in May, the UN Security Council heard on Wednesday.
First Person: Water key to cultivating financial independence in southern Madagascar
- UN News
Women in one of the poorest parts of rural Madagascar are growing their financial independence from men by cultivating village land and selling their produce.
How A Program in Ghana to Create Green Jobs Can Be a Lesson for US Mayors & Across the Globe
- Inter Press Service
ACCRA / NEW YORK, Mar 19 (IPS) - For the past eight years, Chiso has collected waste as part of Accra’s informal waste management sector. Since arriving in Ghana from Nigeria, he has earned enough to allow him and his family to survive, but saving money has been nearly impossible.
24 million Sudanese children facing ‘generational catastrophe’
- UN News
As the war in Sudan enters its second year next month, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child (CRC) on Monday warned of a staggering toll of the crisis on children, with an estimated 24 million teetering on the brink of a “generational catastrophe”.
UN chief condemns attack on peacekeepers in DR Congo
- UN News
The UN chief on Saturday condemned an attack which saw eight peacekeepers from the UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, or DRC, wounded during clashes between the powerful M23 rebel movement and Government troops.
Africans Can Solve the Disease that Haunts Us — Here’s How
- Inter Press Service
BOSTON, US, Mar 15 (IPS) - I was born in Brakpan, Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in eSwatini (known then as Swaziland). People in these two countries share one predominantfear: unemployment. Other worries in these countries and others in the region include unwanted pregnancies, low income and food safety. The diseases that are dreaded the most are cancer and diabetes. Feared infectious diseases include HIV-AIDS, COVID and cholera.
Beekeeping Offers Opportunity to Zimbabwean Farming Communities
- Inter Press Service
CHIMANIMANI, Zimbabwe, Mar 15 (IPS) - Honeybees quickly react with a sharp and loud buzz sound as beekeeper Tanyaradzwa Kanangira opens one of the wooden horizontal Kenyan top bar hives near a stream in a thick forest in Chimanimani, 412 kilometres from Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare.
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