By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW | CHISINAU (IDN) — The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland, has documented almost five million refugees streamlining from the war-ravaged Ukraine crossing borders, most often with difficulties, especially into neighbouring Poland, Baltic republics, Moldova, Romania, and Hungary.
Russia, Ukraine, and Nazi Influence
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power LUND, Sweden (IDN) — Lost in the clouds of combat we forget how the violence in otherwise peaceful Ukraine came about. The spark that lit the fire was struck in Kyiv’s central square, the Maidan. In 2014, demonstrators in the Maidan, the central square of the capital, Kyiv, were motivated by […]
Eight Reasons Not to Give Up Hope — And Take Climate Action
By UN News GENEVA (IDN) — Although once again the scientific community has made clear this week that we are not doing enough to limit global warming to the crucial 1.5°C threshold, the findings of the latest Intergovernmental Panel of Experts on Climate Change report, are not all doom, and gloom.
UN Warns It’s ‘Now or Never’ To Limit Global Warming
By Radwan Jakeem with UN News NEW YORK (IDN) — Backed by scientists, the UN Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that it’s ‘now or never’ to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees. He was reacting to the latest findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
South Asia’s Arab Spring: Protests Amid Hybrid Economic War in Pakistan and Sri Lanka
Viewpoint by Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake The writer, Dr Darini Rajasingham-Senanayake, is a Sociocultural and Medical Anthropologist based in Colombo. Her latest publication is ‘Multi-religiosity on Contemporary Sri Lanka: Innovation, Shared Spaces, Contestation”. (Routledge 2022) COLOMBO (IDN) — South Asia’s Arab Spring is here, amid global Cold War tensions and slow tectonic shifts in power and wealth […]
Statue For Ghanaian Cancer Scientist Is Erected in U.S.
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) — Danielle Twum, a cancer immunologist from Ghana, West Africa, has been honoured in the United States with a life-size statue for her research contributions. Twum was one of over a hundred women honoured by the Smithsonian during Women’s History Month. The Smithsonian’s “#IfThenSheCan—The Exhibit,” features […]
IMF Returns to Mozambique After Six Years
By Kester Kenn Klomegah* MOSCOW | MAPUTO (IDN) — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) returns with a set of new funded programmes to Mozambique, six years after the lender halted its previous deals in the wake of a financial scandal involving three fraudulent security-linked companies, and two banks—Credit Suisse and VTB of Russia, on the […]
First-Ever Summit on Israeli Soil Dismissed as A “Summit of Shame”
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IDN) — When the United States joined hands with Israel, Egypt, Bahrain, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to hold “the first ever multilateral Arab-Israeli summit on Israeli soil”, there was one potential participant described as MIA—the Palestinians, missing in action. One of the Palestinian demonstrators outside the hotel, […]
When A Joke Fetches a Slap
Viewpoint by Azu Ishiekwene The writer is the Managing Director/Editor-in-Chief of LEADERSHIP newspaper based in Abuja, Nigeria. ABUJA (IDN) — One week before Hollywood, Nigeria hosted a different kind of Oscar moment. At the swearing-in ceremony of Charles Soludo, former Governor of the Central Bank and new governor of the most commercially significant southeast states, […]
The Red Scare
Viewpoint by Alice Slater The writer serves on the Boards of World Beyond War, the Global Network Against Weapons and Nuclear Power in Space. She is also the UN NGO representative for the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. NEW YORK (IDN) — In 1954 I attended Queens College during the years before Senator Joseph McCarthy finally […]