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Top stories from today’s Development and Aid Workers News Service–DAWNS Digest. You gotta sign up to read the full digest of global humanitarian news.
The Next 24 Hours Will Be Make or…
Equatorial Guinea’s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo lost his latest bid to establish a UNESCO life science prize in his own name, following protests by human rights advocates and…
Ed note. This is a special guest post from Kristen Cordell of Refugees International
While working as a gender-based violence consultant for my first UN peacekeeping mission in…
This original piece was sent to Channel 16 by a Somali human rights group, contact details were removed for the authors’ safety. Views expressed are the group’s own.
14th October 2011-CS-MOGDISHU-SOMALIA. A remote-controlled landmine planted at the roadside was targeted at a vehicle owned by a Somali parliamentarian member (MP) in the Zone K in Hodan district.
Three persons were injured in the landmine blast, which has taken place in Mogadishu, including the Somali legislator, named…
Top stories from today’s Development and Aid Workers News Service — DAWNS Digest. To receive the full digest of global and humanitarian news delivered straight to your inbox each morning, …
As the Israeli-Palestinian prisoner swap got under way this week, the U.N. Children’s Fund (UNICEF) appealed late last night to the Israel military to ensure the release of 164 Palestinian…
Ulama are the most influential figures in Afghan society. They do not have a visible presence in the government nor in the public domain, however, they are a great tool for…
I am guest hosting Al Jazeera’s social media and global news program The Stream later today. Most of the show will be devoted to the uprisings in Swaziland.
“Uprisings in Swaziland,” you ask?…
An Mi-26 heavy lift cargo helicopter lands at the team site of the UN Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) in Abyei, central Sudan, as Zambian soldiers serving with the international…
A collective of producers led by Damon Albarn recently visited the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to produce a new album in collaboration with Congolese musicians.
Kinshasa One Two was recorded in Kinshasa, DRC, over five days this past July. DRC Music (a collective of producers gathered by Damon Albarn) set out to make an album with contemporary Congolese musicians and worked with more than 50 local performers including Jupiter and the Okwess International, Bokatola System and Nelly…
These are top stories pulled from the EST Edition of today’s Development and Aid Workers News Service–DAWNS Digest. For the full digest of global humanitarian news delivered to your inbox each…
Later today, the House Foreign Affairs Committee will consider a bill that basically guts American contributions to the UN. The bill is championed by Chairwoman Ileana Ros Lehtinen and would…
This extract is from New Internationalist, by Sally Healy. Views expressed are the author’s own.
In a world of plenty, famine is a very serious thing. It shouldn’t happen in the 21st century, but it is happening in Somalia. In simple terms, famine is declared when there is evidence of acute malnutrition affecting more than 30 per cent of children. In some parts of Somalia, levels have reached 50 per cent.
Drought conditions tipped vulnerable people into the shocking predicament the world…
