By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — “Time for everything—time to come here for prayer and time to return home after the service.” With those words, Nigerian preacher TB Joshua, one of Africa’s most influential televangelists, ended his final sermon on Emmanuel TV, the broadcast arm of his megachurch. His death was […]
Canadian and French Nuclear Weapons Policies Challenged for Violating the Right to Life
By Jaya Ramachandran GENEVA (IDN) — Spurred by civil society organisations, the UN Human Rights Committee has challenged the nuclear weapons policies of Canada and France as being in violation of the Right to Life, a right enshrined in Article 6 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR). These rights derive from […]
WHO Warns of the Risk of COVID-19 Upsurge Threatening Africa’s Health Facilities
By Jamshed Baruah GENEVA | BRAZZAVILLE (IDN) — The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned of the threat of a third wave of COVID-19 in Africa threatening Africa’s health facilities, and advised them to urgently boost critical care capacity to prevent health facilities from being overwhelmed. At the same time, vaccine shipments to the continent […]
Avenues of Action: UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
Viewpoint by Rene Wadlow, President, Association of World Citizens GENEVA (IDN) — The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration, 2021-2030 began on June 5. An ecosystem is an interaction between people, plants, animals and their surroundings. The UN Environment Programme and the UN Food and Agriculture Organization are the lead UN agencies for this Decade. However, […]
Afwerki’s Regime in Eritrea Has Been a Malign Influence in The Horn of Africa
Viewpoint by Daniel Haile* COLLEGE STATION, Texas | USA (IDN) — The Ethiopian government claims the conflict in Tigray is a law enforcement operation, but that is incorrect; it is a war involving the Ethiopian government, the Tigray People’s Liberation Front (TPLF), and the malign foreign influence of the Eritrean regime. The Eritrean regime in […]
Addressing IUU Fishing in The Interest of Blue Economy and Caribbean SIDS
Viewpoint by P.I. Gomes Dr P.I. Gomes is former Secretary-General of the Organisation of African, the Caribbean and Pacific States (OACPS was previously ACP Group of States). PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago (IDN) — Illegal, Unreported & Unregulated (IUU) fishing continues to have serious negative effects on the management of marine ecosystems across the […]
People’s Participation Decides the World’s Environment
Viewpoint by Yossef Ben-Meir The writer is a former Peace Corps Volunteer and president of the High Atlas Foundation MARRAKECH (IDN) — Recognizing this week’s World Environment Day reminds us of the evolution of the concept of sustainable development since the phrase was coined in a 1987 United Nations report. At that time, sustainable development […]
Stop Treating Nigeria’s Southeast as Hostile Territory
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) — Nigeria has been struggling with insecurity for over a decade. Against reasonable expectations six years ago when President Muhammadu Buhari was voted in, things have worsened.
UN Invites Applications for a Journalism Fellowship Programme
By Caroline Mwanga NEW YORK (IDN) — The United Nations is inviting applications for the 2021 Reham al-Farra Memorial Journalism Fellowship (RAF) programme which will be conducted online in September-October 2021, during the opening of the 76th session of the UN General Assembly.
A Zimbabwean Freelancer Being Held in The Overcrowded Bulawayo Central Prison
By CPJ NEW YORK (IDN | CPJ) — Zimbabwe authorities should not contest journalist Jeffrey Moyo’s appeal of a recent ruling denying him bail and should drop the criminal case against him, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on June 2. On May 31, a court in the city of Bulawayo denied Moyo’s bail […]