By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | ABUJA (IDN) — In a surprise development, Nigeria’s Appeal Court sitting in Abuja has exonerated the leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB), Nnamdi Kanu, saying his extradition by force from Kenya and his subsequent arrest by Nigerian authorities had been illegal. Kanu, leader of […]
Africa: Let Us Not Leave Rising Hunger as Our Legacy
Viewpoint by Abebe Haile-Gabriel The writer is the Assistant Director-General and Regional Representative for Africa of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). It was published in Horn Observer on October 13, ahead of World Food Day on October 16. ACCRA (IDN) — More than a billion Africans cannot afford a healthy diet. Africa […]
Child Massacre Exposes Weaknesses in Thai Society
By Kalinga Seneviratne BANGKOK (IDN) — The massacre of 37 people, 26 of whom were preschool children taking an afternoon nap in their day-care centre, in a remote north-eastern township of Thailand on October 7 has shocked the nation, with many social media postings calling for the extrajudicial killing of those involved in the drug […]
Peace Foundation Leader Asks: “Is the US Leading the War on Tigray?”
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — The disastrous war in the Horn of Africa is being guided secretly by the US, according to briefings reported by the World Peace Foundation (WPF), a philanthropic foundation for research into peace processes affiliated with Massachusetts-based Fletcher School of Law. The year-long conflict in Ethiopia […]
Sri Lanka: Muslim Women to Take Up 50% Quota Demand in Political Bodies
By Sugeeswara Senadhira COLOMBO (IDN) — Though Muslim women have been considered a group that shunned politics for generations, in recent months, there has been a remarkable change in their awareness of political rights. Reflecting this new awareness, a group of Muslim women displayed their desire to take up the cause of Sri Lankan women […]
ANC Youth League Defends Support for Referendum in Occupied Ukraine
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — South Africa’s ANC Youth League is facing sharp criticism for endorsing Russia’s referenda in occupied parts of Ukraine, which many countries have dismissed as unacceptable, in violation of the United Nations Charter and illegal under international law. The referenda were designed to pave the way […]
Pope Appeals for Release of Catholics Kidnapped in Cameroon
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Pope Francis has added his voice to calls by the bishops of Cameroon for the release of five priests, a religious sister, a cook, a catechist and a 15-year-old girl kidnapped in southwest Cameroon, where a civil war has been raging between the French and […]
African Ministers Commit to Fighting Pollution, Climate Change, Loss of Nature
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — The 18th session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (AMCEN) closed with environment ministers from 54 African countries adopting a series of decisions and key messages to tackle climate change, the loss of nature, pollution and waste, including the elimination of open dumping […]
Namibian Leader in Bitter Feud Over Colonialism with SWAPO Critics
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — At a recent meeting of the SWAPO Party Youth League in Ongwediva, Namibian President Hage Geingob took the offensive, attacking his critics for dismissing the successes of the SWAPO party. “SWAPO is not dying, and party members should tell those who think so to go […]
China and India Slug it out in Colombo
By Shastri Ramachandran NEW DELHI (IDN) — Sri Lanka, the Maldives, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bhutan, Nepal, Bangladesh and Myanmar are all contested sites with both Beijing and New Delhi competing for influence in these countries. There can be no denying the geopolitics involved in bilateral relations in the region. Time was when most of the South […]