By Isaac Mwaura The writer is a Nominated Senator and chairman of the Albinism Society of Kenya. @mwauraIsaac1 mwaura.isa@gmail.com.NEW This article was first published in Standard Digitial. NEW YORK (IDN) – It is Wednesday September 25, 2019, and I am rushing to take my seat at a Kenyan side event on peace, organised by our […]
World Bank’s Cash Handouts Lift Tanzanians from Poverty
By Kizito Makoye KILOSA, Tanzania (IDN) – Hidaya Juma looks gaunt and weary. Her sun-parched skin and tattered clothes tell it all. She is poor. Juma, a 43-year-old single mother of four, who lives in Kisanga village, Kilosa district, in Tanzania’s eastern Morogoro region, lives in a mud-walled house that is prone to flooding. Her […]
Advocates for Biafra and Journalists Against Corruption Face Gov’t Crackdown
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – The war may be over in a place called Biafra – a region of states in the southern part of Nigeria – but it remains a flashpoint for ethnic tensions that simmer just below the surface. This September, the leader of the Indigenous People of […]
Drought Catapults Zimbabwe into a National Disaster
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – In a new low water mark for Zimbabwe’s troubled economy, two million people in Zimbabwe’s capital have now been left without water after the government ran out of foreign currency to pay for imported water treatment chemicals. Zimbabwe’s capital city shut its main water works […]
Empowerment A Solution for Inequality in Rural Morocco
By Victoria Burns and Lailah Said MARRAKECH (IDN) – The practice of empowerment has the potential to be the key to reducing the negative impacts of alienation and inequality among women in rural regions of Morocco. High Atlas Foundation trainer Ibtissam Niri facilitates an IMAGINE empowerment workshop among girls and women in the Agerzrane village. […]
Ugandan TV Host Wins Coveted Prize for Investigative Journalism
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Ugandan investigative reporter and news anchor Solomon Serwanjja is the 2019 winner of the Komla Dumor award. It goes to a journalist committed to changing the narrative about Africa. Serwanjja, a presenter at Uganda’s NBS TV, hosts one of the channel’s prime-time shows. He has […]
The Roots of Hong Kong’s Crisis
By Henry Huang* WASHINGTON, D.C. (IDN) – Hong Kong, the pearl of the East, yet lives in such a turmoil. The ongoing political crisis and massive protest have drawn a large amount of international concern and attention. There are multiple explanations of what has happened in Hong Kong. Some may say it is for a […]
White Paper Expounds China’s Relationship with The World
By Globaltimes.cn BEIJING (IDN-INPS) – The State Council Information Office issued a white paper titled “China and the World in the New Era“ on 27 September. This is the first governmental white paper that has comprehensively expounded the relationship between China and the world. The white paper focuses on China’s international outlook, its development objectives […]
Russia Making Further Inroads into Zimbabwe
By Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW (IDN) – Russia maintains very friendly relations with Zimbabwe, thanks to ties which evolved during the struggle for independence. Since then, it has had a very strong mutual sympathy with and friendly feelings toward the southern African people, government and country. One of the fora in which relations between the […]
Thai Farmer Shows How ‘Sufficiency Economy’ Works in Practice
By Bronwen Evans * CHANTHABURI, Thailand (IDN) – There are generally two reasons why Thai farmers embrace organics – one is health and the other is economics. For 73-year old Kumnung Chanthasit it was the latter. He had farmed the same plot of land in Thailand’s eastern province of Chanthaburi since boyhood. Despite the rich […]