By James Bhagwan* SUVA, Fiji | 11 November 2023 (IDN) — For the Pacific Conference of Churches (PCC), the ecumenical alliance for the Pacific region, it was a very difficult decision to go to this year’s COP in Dubai, a conference chaired by the CEO of Dubai’s national oil company who is a significant figure […]
Fiji: Korean Church’s Businesses Thrive While Its Head Faces Deportation
By Rohit Kumar* SUVA, Fiji | 10 November 2023 (IDN | WANSOLWARA) — The Grace Road Business Empire, a South Korean Christian group established within a short nine-year span, has impressed many in Fiji. However, the group has also attracted controversy due to the South Korean government’s ongoing investigations against the church and its desire […]
Nuclear Tensions Loom Over War Zones
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS | 9 November 2023 (IDN) — The two ongoing military conflicts in Europe and the Middle East are pitting two nuclear powers—Russia and Israel—against a non-nuclear state (Ukraine) and a non-nuclear militant armed force (Hamas). The military might is overwhelmingly in favor of both Russia and Israel in the two […]
Solidarity with Palestinians in USA, Germany and Indonesia
By Global News Service BERLIN | 8 November 2023(IDN | Peoples Dispatch | Globetrotter News Service) — The following is a selection of newswire reports on 300,000-March in Washington, DC for Palestine, Israel’s Gaza action having killed 10,000 people, the German People’s Movement’s march in solidarity with Palestine, and the Indonesian hospital in Gaza. 300,000 […]
African Fashion Bursting with Opportunities, UNESCO Says
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 7 November 2023 (IDN) — If you thought UNESCO was just about dusty old artifacts, think again. UNESCO, which stands for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, was created in 1945 “to build peace through international cooperation as the only way to build bridges between […]
Ta-Nehisi Coates on the ‘Non-Complexity’ of the Middle East War
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 7 November 2023 (IDN) — As political theorists, activists, politicians, and others struggle with ways to understand the current war in the Middle East, clarity came to the prize-winning author and journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates on his return from a 10-day tour of Israel and Palestine. He […]
Activists Confront Uganda Over Oil Pipeline Financed by China
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 6 November 2023 (IDN) — As the world tightens its belt to use less dirty oil and more solar and other clean energies, one country on the African continent is moving full speed ahead in the opposite direction. Uganda recently signed on to one of the […]
India’s Balancing Act: ‘Limited Liability Partnership’
By Herbert Wulf* This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. BONN, Germany | 6 November 2023 (IDN) — The Indian government has, in contrast to many governments of the Global South, assured Israel of its full solidarity following the Hamas terrorist attack. The reaction after the […]
Horrific Humanitarian Situation in Gaza
By J C Nastranis NEW YORK | 4 November 2023 (IDN) — UN Secretary-General António Guterres has reiterated his appeal for a humanitarian ceasefire in the Gaza war raging since 7 October. He said he was “horrified” by a strike on an ambulance convoy outside a hospital in the Gaza Strip on 4 November. According […]
Nigeria: Minimizing the Regular Cycle of Bitter Election Combats
By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA | 4 November 2023 (IDN) — Former vice president and presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), Atiku Abubakar, said on 30 October that Nigeria was the bigger loser in the Supreme Court decision on 26 October […]