By Jutta Wolf BERLIN (IDN) – With the Ethiopia domestic conflict further escalating, the World Future Council has called upon conflicting parties to “end the devastating infighting, to respect international humanitarian law and provide safety for all the country citizens, specifically children, women and the elderly”. The call comes in the wake of the United […]
Australia At Crossroads with A Biden Presidency
By Kalinga Seneviratne SYDNEY (IDN) – The government of Prime Minister Scott Morrison has been closely aligned with that of the US President Donald Trump on climate change and policy towards China. But, media commentators here in the past few days have been arguing that a Biden administration may put pressure on Australia to change […]
Ethnic Strife in Ethiopia Threatens All-Out Civil War
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Those who held high hopes for peace in the Horn of Africa are troubled by the rise in conflicts across the region with fears growing of a potentially destabilizing civil war. The latest conflict pits the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed against the Tigray […]
Biden Is A Veteran Friend of Israel But Against Settlement
By Raphael Ahren The writer is the diplomatic correspondent at The Times of Israel, which published it on November 7, 2020. JERUSALEM (IDN) – Joe Biden, the newly elected 46th president of the United States, is a true friend of the Jewish state, friends and even political adversaries of the emerging president-elect agree. “He has […]
Almost Unnoticed Nuclear Pandemic Is Spreading in Japan
By Manlio Dinucci This article was originally published in Italian on Il Manifesto. It is being republished from Global Research. Manlio Dinucci is a Research Associate of the Centre for Research on Globalization (CRG). MONTREAL (IDN) – It was not Covid-19, therefore the news went almost unnoticed: Japan will release over a million tons of […]
Pressing Need to Ensure Responsible African Digitalisation
By Reinhard Jacobsen BRUSSELS (IDN) – The profound importance of data is underlined by the fact that the United Nations is measuring progress towards the 17 ambitious Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with the help of a global network working together to ensure the new opportunities of the data revolution. Youth are being referred to as […]
Democracy Takes A Beating in Elections Across the African Continent
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Foul play may have been the winner in recent national elections in Tanzania, where the ruling party swept up an overwhelming majority of parliamentary seats and the leaders of both top opposition parties lost theirs. Citing “seditious language”, the election commission suspended the campaign of […]
Sudanese Refugees Face Uncertainty in Israel If Bilateral Ties Are Resumed
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Sudanese refugees who live in Israel are wondering what their future holds if ties are normalized between the two countries as predicted and the Israeli government launches deportation proceedings against them. There are around 6,500 Sudanese nationals in Israel, representing 20 per cent of all […]
Nigerian Writers Rip ‘Terror Squad’ As Protestors Cry ‘Just Stop Killing Us!’
`By Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – For many, the images of rogue Nigerian soldiers firing live ammunition at hundreds of peaceful protesters in Lagos, killing at least 12 people, will be hard to forget. Now, some of Nigeria’s prize-winning authors have turned acid-tipped pens against the government of Muhammadu Buhari for failing to […]
Brutal Attacks on Bilingual School in Cameroon
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – A long-running conflict between Cameroon’s French and English-speaking communities brought new horror on October 24 with an attack on the Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy in the city of Kumba, in the country’s Southwest Region, by armed terrorists taking the lives of six children and […]