By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) – Kenya has signed agreements with a U.S. wind energy company, providing a major boost for wind power and food security. President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya said the ‘Big Four agenda’ projects – boosting manufacturing industry, promoting food security, providing affordable housing and universal healthcare coverage […]
Settlers Face Eviction in Kenya as Gov’t Plan to Save Trees
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | NAIROBI (IDN) – Some 40,000 settlers in the Maasai Mau forest in Kenya face imminent eviction by the Kenyan government which says it is protecting the forest in the name of conservation. Deputy President William Ruto said those who encroached on the forest should be flushed […]
Southern African Governments Pressed for Land Reform
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – The day of reckoning is arriving in Southern Africa for the hundreds of thousands of blacks whose lands were taken forcibly by white settlers – a crime that goes unpunished despite promises for land reform year after year. Pressure is growing on governments to take […]
Indigenous Peoples in the Grip of ‘Criminalization’, Warns New UN Report
By Jaya Ramachandran GENEVA (IDN) – A new United Nations report warns that “in a wide variety of countries,” both physical violence and legal prosecution are used against Indigenous Peoples defending their rights and lands. They are “criminalized”. The report by the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, to the […]
Space Science Vital to Achieving Global Development Goals
By Justus Wanzala NAIROBI (ACP-IDN) – Space science and earth observation are some of the key pillars in the attainment of most of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to experts participating in an international conference, organized by the Regional Centre for Mapping Resources for Development (RCMRD) in Kenya’s capital city. The […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 9
By Roberto Massari* This is the ninth of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – FADE-OUT … Scene 9[ Vallegrande, October 9, 2017] The scene is composite, polychrome and multi-sound. On the large clearing for what in the past was to become the Vallegrande […]
The Rohingya are Subject to Genocide, International Community Must Act
Viewpoint by Razia Sultana The author is a Rohingya lawyer, researcher and educator specializing in trauma, mass rape and trafficking of Rohingya girls and women. She has been working with Rohingya women and girls in the refugee camps in Bangladesh documenting the stories of women and girls who fled Myanmar, and has published two reports: […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 8
By Roberto Massari* This is the eighth of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 7. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – MARXIST STORY: Scene 8 [Prague, 1966] At this point we must devote attention to this polemic, trying first of all to imagine the scene: after the lengthy confinement in the […]
Asia Society Names a Global Company CEO as ‘Game Changer’
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – Asia Society, in partnership with Citi, has announced the Indian-born Indra K. Nooyi as Game Changer of the Year for 2018 in recognition of her “life-saving collaboration with the United Nations on food, nutrition, global water, climate, and women’s empowerment issues.” Asia Society President and CEO Josette Sheeran […]
Guevara and Marx: Critical Remake of an Old Film – 7
By Roberto Massari* This is the seventh of a nine-part series. Read Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6. BOLSENA, Italy (IDN) – HERESY STORY: Scene 7 [from Moscow to Havana, 1963-65] The starting scene for describing this intellectual revival of Guevara’s Marxism is set in Moscow and he described it himself in one […]