By Katsuhiro Asagiri TOKYO (IDN) – When the UN General Assembly adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) in Paris on December 10, 1948, it came up with a milestone document in the history of human rights that took into account the horrendous experiences of the Second World War. With the end of that […]
‘Ugly’ Is the New Delicious in Singapore
By Nadia Amirah Binte Kamsani SINGAPORE (IDN) – As Asian societies become affluent, their modern lifestyles are leading to much wastage in the food chain to satisfy the high standards of hygeine and freshness consumers demand. To combat the issue of higher food wastage in Singapore – one of the most affluent countries in the […]
EU Urged to Evacuate Eritreans from Libyan ‘Death Camps’
By Ramesh Jaura BRUSSELS (IDN) – When the Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed signed in July a peace deal after two decades of war and ensuing violent border clashes, “a new era of peace and friendship” was felt to have begun in the Horn of Africa comprising Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, […]
East Africans Score Victory for Minneapolis’ Amazon Workers
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Somali women packers for the giant Amazon distribution center in Minneapolis are fired up and refusing to speed up the production line, becoming the first known group to defy Amazon management and bring them to the bargaining table. “Nobody would assume a Muslim worker with […]
Maasai Fight Efforts to Convert Their Lands to Game Parks
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – “The water that quenches our thirst, the air that we breathe, the trees that provide shade and the animals that give us company, all make life real and creation complete.” So begins a prayer by an elder of the Maasai people of Tanzania whose traditional […]
Israel Welcomes Nauert as Haley’s Successor at the UN
By Bernhard Schell DUBAI (IDN) – Israel has hailed U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement that he will nominate former Fox news reporter and current State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert to be the U.S. ambassador and permanent representative to the United Nations headquarters in New York, according to agencies and The Times of Israel. Nauert will […]
Ghanaian Inventor Eases Children’s Access to Schools Across Rivers
By Devendra Kamarajan ACCRA (IDN) – A young inventor, Frank Darko, has designed a water cycle to help Ghanaian children living in villages throughout the Volta region reach schools. Currently, they must swim or wade through at least one river every day to get to the nearest school. This is particularly dangerous during the rainy […]
UN Specialised Agency IFAD Joins 79-nation ACP to Rescue African Agriculture
IDN interviews IFAD President Gilbert Houngbo By Jeffrey Moyo HARARE (IDN) – Smallholder rural farmers in Zimbabwe are set to benefit from international funding intended to improve access to inputs, irrigation and the adoption of smart farming practices in the face of predicted El Nino-induced drought. On the first visit to Zimbabwe of a president […]
Africa Should Focus on Young People – Say Experts
By Ronald Joshua KIGALI (IDN) – Africa’s “easy decade” of accelerated economic growth is coming to an end, and only accelerated job creation and integration will ensure sustainable growth and development across the continent, Prof. Paul Collier, one of the world’s most influential development economists has warned. A Professor of Economics and Public Policy in […]
Africa Seeks Commitments to Fight Climate Threat at COP24
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Seyni Nafo, spokesman of the African delegation at the UN Climate Change Conference COP24 taking place in Katowice in southern Poland from December 2-14 is not one to mince words about the serious climate threat now facing the African continent. “We are the most vulnerable, […]