By Razeena Raheem UNITED NATIONS. 21 July 2023 (IDN) — A senior UN staffer, Shihana Mohamed—who is also a dedicated human rights activist and a strong advocate of gender empowerment—is one of 20 Fellows in the 2023 class of the “Public Voices Fellowship on Advancing the Rights of Women and Girls”. The US-based fellowship is […]
Why Ugandan President Museveni’s Video Shames Africa
By Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA. 21 July 2023 (IDN) — There’s a trending video from nine years ago. If you watched it casually, you might in fact think that it was done yesterday. It was a clip of Ugandan President, Yoweri Museveni, narrating what happened in 2014 […]
UN Concerned About Developing Countries’ Debt
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN. 21 July 2023 (IDN) — African countries pay four times more for borrowing than the United States and eight times more than the wealthiest European economies, a new United Nations report has found. It is not surprising, therefore, that colossal debt is having a grave impact on countries where 3.3 billion […]
How The Palestinian Leaders Contributed to The Disastrous Israeli Occupation
By Alon Ben-Meir* The following is the second installment in a series of three articles. The first addressed the occupation and Jewish values. The third will establish certain realities on the ground that are not subject to change and offer a framework for a permanent solution in the context of creating an Israeli-Palestinian-Jordanian confederation. NEW YORK. 20 […]
Africa: New Report Shows Way to Mobilise Funds and Achieve Development Goals
PARIS. 19 July 2023 (IDN) — Africa needs an extra USD 1.6 trillion by 2030—USD 194 billion annually—to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), says a new report. The 2023 edition of Africa’s Development Dynamics calls upon African governments and their partners to improve information to investors, increase the capacity of African development finance institutions. By boosting […]
A Proposed UN Body to Regulate Artificial Intelligence
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS. 18 July 2023 (IDN) — As the United Nations continues to debate the positive and negative effects of artificial intelligence (AI), Secretary-General António Guterres laid down the two extremes: the potential benefits of AI to the world economy, running into trillions of dollars, and the devastation it could cause humanity—if […]
Europe Should Refuse to be Pushed by US to Confront Russia
By Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden. 18 July 2023 (IDN) — That bar, the Red Star, on the far side of eastern Europe was closed—until the Ukraine war started. So why did the White Moon bar on this side of the street decide to stay open, even extending its drinking hours? Once the Warsaw Pact closed […]
The Wagner Coup: Strategic Setback or Military Deception?
By Ramesh Thakur* This article was issued by the Toda Peace Institute and is being republished with their permission. CANBERRA, Australia. 18 July 2023 (IDN) — The Wagner coup equation doesn’t compute. It just doesn’t add up. Herbert Wulf gave us a concise summary of the surreal 24 hours that gripped the world. But there are missing pieces of […]
UN: One of the World’s Most Multilingual Organizations
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS. 17 July 2023 (IDN) — When Egypt’s onetime Foreign Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali was running for the post of UN Secretary-General in late 1991, he had to contend with the candidature of Bernard Chidzero, then foreign minister of Zimbabwe. As the campaign began to intensify, Boutros-Ghali recounted a brief encounter with […]
African Rights Groups Press U.S. Corp To Dismiss Exec For ‘Spreading Homophobia’
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK. 16 July 2023 (IDN) — Over a dozen organizations have signed on to a petition seeking the removal of a senior employee in the multinational Intel Corporation allegedly spreading anti-LGBTQ sentiment in several African countries. The rights groups allege that Intel’s vice-president of global regulatory affairs has […]