Kester Kenn Klomegah* talks to a Former Somali Diplomat Abukar Arman MOSCOW (IDN) – Though Somalia is coveted for its strategic location and huge marine resources, it remains one of the largely unstable and underdeveloped countries in Africa. With its longest coastline, bordering Ethiopia to the west, Kenya to the southwest and the Gulf of […]
A New Alliance Will Likely Shape U.S. Foreign Policy for Years to Come
Viewpoint by Marshall Auerback and James Carden* This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. NEW YORK (IDN) – In early June, a group of former officials from the George W. Bush administration launched a PAC in support of Joe Biden’s candidacy. The group, 43 Alumni for Biden, […]
UN Chief Concerned Over Deepening Existing Inequalities
By António Guterres The following are excerpts from UN Secretary-General António Guterres’ remarks at Town Hall with Young Women from Civil Society Organizations on August 31. on the sidelines of the Commission on the Status of Women. NEW YORK (IDN) – The COVID-19 pandemic has in the past six months turned our world upside down. […]
Migrants Prefer Returning to Libya Than Staying in Tunisia
By Morgane Wirtz* This year, hundreds of migrants and asylum seekers settled in Tunisia have packed up to risk their lives again in Libya. For them, “It is better to die for something than to live for nothing”. BRUSSELS (IDN) – It is a large white house with blue shutters in Al-Maharas, a small town […]
The Rich Countries Should Help Contain the Effect of Coronavirus in the Third World
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN) – There was a great piece of news announced on August 25 by the World Health Organisation (WHO). Wild-polio has been wiped out of Africa, thanks to a vaccine. It only remains in some isolated parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan where public health officials fight the poliovirus against […]
Top Civil Rights Lawyer Questions Whether USA Gov can contain Trump and GOP Power Grabs
Burt Neuborne Shows 20 Ways Trump Is Copying Hitler’s Early Rhetoric and Policies By Steven Rosenfeld * The writer is a senior writing fellow and the editor and chief correspondent of Voting Booth, a project of the Independent Media Institute. SAN FRANCISCO, CA, USA (IDN) – A new book by one of the nation’s foremost […]
Legal Loopholes May Deny Mauritius Much-Needed Oil Spill Clean-Up Funds
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Just over a month since a cracked shipping vessel leaked over a thousand tons of dirty oil, blanketing the pristine sands of the East African island of Mauritius, authorities have now arrested the ship’s captain for unsafe navigation. He faces a sentence of 60 years […]
African Women’s Groups Decry Spike in Sexual Violence Tied to Pandemic
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – As the number of cases of the coronavirus inched up in Africa this summer, another number was reaching new heights with less notice. In Nigeria, Liberia, Morocco and South Africa, protestors have been taking to the streets demanding urgent action against the surge in rape […]
Zambian Writer, ‘A Role Model for A Generation’, Tapped for Cultural Prize
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – This year’s Goethe Medal has been awarded to African writer and publisher Zukiswa Wanner, Elvira Espejo Ayca of Bolivia and Ian McEwan of the U.K. for their commitment to international cultural exchange. Zukiswa, a writer, journalist and publisher, is the author of the novels The […]
The Press Freedom Climate in Algeria Has Changed for The Worse Under New President
Viewpoint by M ElHaies The writer is a consultant in CPJ’s Middle East and North Africa program. This article is being republished courtesy of CPJ which first carried it on its Website on August 26. NEW YORK (IDN) – Two weeks after the imprisonment of a high-profile Algerian journalist, a former reporter has been sentenced […]