Viewpoint by Alon Ben-Meir Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a retired professor of international relations at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University (NYU). He taught courses on international negotiation and Middle Eastern studies for over 20 years. NEW YORK (IDN) — Given that Israel and Hamas collaborate both publicly and tacitly on multiple […]
Asia-Pacific: Using Space Applications for Sustainable Development
By Santo D. Banerjee BANGKOK (IDN) — Ministers and heads of national space agencies endorsed the Jakarta Ministerial Declaration on Space Applications for Sustainable Development in Asia and the Pacific at the close of a high-level meeting co-organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) and the Government […]
Manipulations at ‘World Fellowship of Buddhists’ Conference
Buddhism Is Losing Its Voice in Asia By Krishan Dutta BANGKOK (IDN) — The theme of this year’s 30th General Conference of the World Fellowship of Buddhists (WFB) was “Buddhism in the Time of Crisis”, but many disillusioned members of this premier Buddhist organization say it is the WFB that is in crisis. “The conference […]
Iraq’s Drought Crisis Destroys Income and Crops Countrywide
By Ahmed Bayram The writer is an Amman-based Middle East Media Adviser of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). AMMAN, Jordan (IDN) — Farming communities in Iraq have seen their wheat, vegetable, and fruit harvests decline for the second year in a row because of severe drought conditions. Households throughout the country will be increasingly vulnerable […]
Disease-Resistant GM Cassava Promises to Be Game-Changer for Kenya
By Joseph Maina Alliance for Science issued this article, and it is being republished with their permission. NAIROBI, Kenya (IDN) — At the Kenya Agricultural and Livestock Research Organization (KALRO) centre in Mtwapa, Kenya, scientist Paul Kuria uproots two sets of cassava tubers exposed to the devastating cassava brown streak disease (CBSD). One of the […]
Worse Flooding in A Decade Takes 600 Lives in Southern Nigeria
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | ABUJA (IDN) — Flooding in the southern and coastal states of Nigeria has taken the lives of more than 600 people, displaced 1.4 million and destroyed roads and farmlands. Officials warn that the situation could continue into November. Thirty-one of Nigeria’s 36 states have been affected […]
Nigerian Court Acquits Biafran Separatist Leader
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 […]