By Ronald Joshua ADDIS ABABA (IDN) – Africa’s future economic and social progress is under threat from alarmingly high levels of child hunger, and the severity and scale of the problem is such that it requires nothing short of a radical and transformative political and economic agenda, according to a new study released at the […]
ACP Provides Information on Development of Private Sector
By Reinhard Jacobsen BRUSSELS (ACP-IDN) – The Secretariat of the African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) Group of States, has launched a series of regional meetings aimed at boosting ACP private sector information, developing knowledge sharing and networking. As an integral activity of the Joint ACP-EU Private Sector Development Framework, these events are being organised with […]
Door to North Korea Remains Open Despite Missile Tests
By Alicia Sanders-Zakre and Kelsey Davenport While Alicia Sanders-Zakre is research assistant, Kelsey Davenport, is director for nonproliferation policy at the Arms Control Association, which carried this report on May 21, 2019. WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN-INPS) – The next steps for U.S. diplomacy with North Korea remain unclear after Pyongyang tested several short-range ballistic missiles in […]
Stop Tuvalu and the World from Sinking
By Sean Buchanan NEW YORK (IDN) – Like many of the world’s low-lying islands, Tuvalu, the South Pacific island whose highest point is less than five metres above the waves, faces the threat of being submerged under rising seas. “We must stop Tuvalu from sinking and the world from sinking with Tuvalu,” UN Secretary-General António […]
The Security Council Must Stop the U.S. Going to War with Iran
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – Amnesty International reported on March 11 that an Iranian lawyer, Nasrin Sotoudeh, has been sentenced to 38 years in jail and 148 lashes. She has dedicated her life to defending women accused of removing their hijabs in public. The persecution of human rights dissidents in Iran appears […]
The Controversy about Massive Ebola Outbreak in DR Congo
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – The risk of Ebola spreading in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) remains “very high”, the head of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, said on May 20. This warning follows a recent spike in the number of infections due to the […]
Women’s Peace Hut Develops into a Driver of Economic Growth
A UN Women News Feature This feature first appeared on May 7, 2019 with the headline A place of peace, reconciliation and growth. NEW YORK (IDN-INPS) – The air is dry and hot in Gao. Here, in the north of Mali, the temperatures rarely fall below 30 degrees even in colder months. Around 1 million […]
Cambodia, Recipient in 1993, Gives Back to UN Peacekeeping
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK | JUBA, South Sudan (IDN) – “Cambodia received peacekeeping troops in 1993, and we feel that we have to contribute in the same way as other countries did when they worked in the UN mission in our country,” remembers Colonel Channy Vongvannak. “So, we understand that countries and people […]
Europe Must Begin to Recognise the Dark Side of Its History
Viewpoint by Prof Dr Mirjam van Reisen The following are extensive extracts from Prof Dr Mirjam van Reisen’s presentation to the Pan African Parliament, Midrand, part of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan, South Africa on May 13, 2019. She is Tilburg University’s Chair ‘International Relations, Innovation and care’, Leiden University’s Chair ‘Computing for Society’, Coordinator […]
Fiddling While the Nuclear Arms Control Architecture Collapses
Viewpoint by Tariq Rauf Just as the senators of Rome fiddled away while the city burned, today’s diplomats seem helpless in averting the total collapse of nuclear arms control thus paving the way for a dangerous new nuclear arms race with increased risks of accidental or deliberate use of nuclear weapons. Tariq Rauf was Alternate […]