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This extract is from Al Jazeera. Views expressed are the author’s own.
An air raid on a camp packed with displaced women and children has killed at least five people and wounded 45 others, including 31 children, according to the aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF).
The Kenyan military admitted carrying out Sunday’s attack on the town of Jilib, where the camp for internally displaced persons (IDP) is located, but said the raid targeted al-Shabab fighters who are linked to al-Qaeda…
This article is from The Guardian Global Development by Tracy McVeigh. Views expressed are the author’s own.
Fears are growing that the forthcoming elections in the Democratic Republic of Congo will trigger a new wave of violence, amid reports that militias are re-forming.
One of Congo’s leading peacemakers, Henri Ladyi – who has been called “Africa’s Schindler” for his work rehabilitating child soldiers in the republic’s eastern region – said he feared years of hard work in demobilising…
The State Department today announced that it is halting a $60 million payment to UNESCO that is due in November because of decades old prohibition against funding any UN entity that accepts…
So, what does Susan Rice, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, really think of the so-called doctrine “leading from behind.”
“That’s just a whacked out phrase,” Rice told Turtle…
A Special Guest Post from Senator Timothy Wirth, President of the UN Foundation
As the eyes of the world are focused on the Palestinian statehood bid at the United Nations in New York, another…
During the Taliban regime women were locked up in at home, they were not allowed to go out for shopping or work in the public places. Since the fall of the Taliban in late 2001,…
In the past few days, there have been signs that Somalia and Kenya are coming back into the press. However, given how fragmented the reporting has been, it is still hard to assess how Somali and Kenyan civilians have been affected by the recent Kenyan military incursion into a Somali border area, as well as the ongoing food crisis. This pick of the week brings together some of the latest news and pictures from the Horn of Africa to give a better sense of the situation on the ground.
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The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously yesterday to end the NATO-led no-fly zone over Libya, marking the conclusion of a controversial military conflict that deeply divided the…
This article is from AFP by Jenny Vaughan. Views expressed are the author’s own.
SHERKOLE, Ethiopia — The two holes where the bullets entered Sudanese refugee Abseta Afalla’s calf are still raw, a grim reminder from the boiling civil war in Sudan’s Blue Nile state he fled from.
It still pains him to walk on his wounded leg, so he spends most of his days lying in his tent in this refugee camp in Ethiopia, close enough to the border to still hear the sound of regular aerial bombings in the…
There were 468,000 homicides around the world in 2010. More than a third (36 per cent) of those are estimated to have occurred in Africa, 31 per cent in the Americas, 27 per cent in Asia, 5 per…
This extract is from Newsline, by Afia Salam. Views expressed are the author’s own.
Nothing hits one more than the phrase ‘water, water everywhere, but not a drop to drink,’ when passing through those parts of Sindh hit by the monsoon rains that started in August and laid to waste most of the province within just a couple of weeks. What makes people angry though is the fact that it needn’t have been so. Yes, the region received unprecedented rainfall, but the disaster that followed was…
In a statement from Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid, the insurgent group threatened yesterday to use violence against anyone involved in a loya jirga that will be convened in Kabul next…
Sometime around Halloween, the United Nations will celebrate the birth of the world’s 7th billion baby. As U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told world leaders in New York last month, the 7th…
