By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA, 26 May 2023 (IDN) — After weeks of being at daggers drawn over the results of the last general elections and with only days to the inauguration of a new government on May 29, one of Nigeria’s three […]
Humanitarian Aid to Africa Falls Far Short of Target
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 25 May 2023 (IDN) — At a UN sponsored high-level meeting, donors collectively pledged about $2.4 billion in “life-saving and life-sustaining assistance” to nearly 32 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia plagued by five consecutive poor rainy seasons. But the pledges—from 28 donors out of the 193 UN member […]
Viewpoint: For the Sake of Peace, We Need a Fossil Fuel Treaty
By Tomohiko Aishima* & Shahin Ashraf** TOKYO, 25 May 2023 (IDN) — When the leaders of powerful nations meet, finding ways to maintain peace is one of their most important responsibilities. But as the G7 meeting in Hiroshima has come to an end, some of the world’s most powerful leaders have let two opportunities to […]
Peace with the Planet Requires a Fossil Fuel Treaty
By Ramesh Jaura Major Religions React to Hiroshima G7 BERLIN | TOKYO, 24 May 2023 (IDN) — Key international religious organizations have expressed dismay at the failure of leaders of the Group of Seven Countries (G7)— Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States—to take steps to phase out fossil fuels […]
Philippines Mulls Banning Deployment of Workers to Kuwait
A special SDG feature deploying Philippines media resources MANILA, 24 May 2023 (IDN) — A brewing row between the Philippines and Kuwait over the treatment of Filipino migrant workers has come to the limelight here after a Kuwait Times report on 9 May said that Kuwait has suspended all work and entry visas for Filipino […]
US Refuses Visa to Swedish NGO for UN Meetings
STOCKHOLM, 24 May 2023 (IDN) — The United States has refused a visa to Jan Lönn, Secretary General of International Youth and Student Movement for the United Nations (ISMUN; President of the NGO Committee on Development (Geneva).
Behind Biden Administration’s ‘Democratism’ in Bangladesh
Viewpoint by Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury* DHAKA, Bangladesh, 23 May 2023 (IDN) — The Biden administration is aggressively pushing forward its ‘democratism’ policy with the ulterior motive of kowtowing targeted foreign nations through its so-called approach for a better democracy.
Mobilizing Guyana’s Diaspora Beyond Remittances
By P.I. Gomes The writer is Former Secretary-General of the Organisation of African, Caribbean & Pacific States (OACPS). GEORGETOWN, 23 May 2023 (IDN) — In the north-east coast of South America, the small and newest petro-state sits the Cooperative Republic of Guyana. With a population of almost 800,000 persons, the former British colony was granted […]
Stopping The Bad Being Stronger Than the Good
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden, 23 May 2023 (IDN) — Do we, especially our politicians and media, focus more on threats than on opportunities, dwell on loses more than on gains, and learn more from past failures than from successes? When we are children, we are frightened of bogeymen. When we are adults, we often […]
G7 Leaders Falter Over Nuclear Disarmament in Hiroshima
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, 22 May 2023 (IDN) — When leaders of the Group of 7 (G7) countries met in Hiroshima May 19-21, one of the issues on the agenda was nuclear disarmament. The venue of the summit was symbolically stark because the US atomic bombings in 1945 killed over 226,000 people in the […]