By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | ACCRA (IDN) – Environmental groups in Ghana are waging an eleventh-hour battle to stop the government of Ghana from opening the Atewa Forest Reserve – a crown jewel of biodiversity and a source of three rivers – to commercial large-scale bauxite mining. Their resistance conforms to […]
Gambia’s Ex-President Plundered Nearly One Billion Dollars
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Experts who follow the money are still scratching their heads as to how a quarter of a billion dollars vanished from the national coffers along with former Gambian President Yahya Jammeh at roughly the same time. Before his flight into exile in 2017, Jammeh ruled […]
Why a White Christian Isn’t Called a Terrorist
By Kalinga Seneviratne This article is the 31st in a series of joint productions of Lotus News Features and IDN-InDepthNews, flagship of the International Press Syndicate. Click here for previous series. SYDNEY (IDN) – After a White Australian of Christian background Brenton Tarrant gunned down 50 Muslims praying at a Christchurch mosque on a Friday, […]
Vatican Encourages Faith Communities to Help Achieve SDGs
By Ramesh Jaura BERLIN | VATICAN CITY (IDN) – Much water has flown under the Tiber bridges since the Holy See declined an invitation in 1923 to join the League of Nations stating that its only competency was in matters of elucidation of questions of principle in morality and public international law. Forty-one years later, […]
Moving the ACP Group to Centre Stage of Multilateralism
Viewpoint by Dr. Patrick I. Gomes The writer is the Secretary-General of the African, Caribbean and Pacific Group of States (ACP). BRUSSELS (IDN) – In today’s global situation that bears the features of turbulence, fragility and an increasingly precarious balance between peace and possible nuclear annihilation, the role and relevance of the United Nations Organisation […]
UN Expert Demands from Saudi Arabia Public Trials of Khashoggi’s Accused Killers
By Jamshed Baruah GENEVA (IDN) – Six months after veteran Saudi journalist and Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi was killed at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions has in a report criticised Riyadh’s closed-door trials of accused killers, which have thus far fallen short of […]
EU and International NGOs Exploit Aid to Fortify Forced Labour in Eritrea
Viewpoint by Makeda Saba BRUSSELS (IDN) – The Dutch Foundation Human Rights for Eritreans, an organization of exiled Eritreans, is taking legal action against the European Union. It is demanding of the EU to immediately stop funding a project in Eritrea which involves use of forced labour and enslavement. The European Union has allocated €20 […]
UN Chief Calls for Urgent Action to Address Dangers Linked to Climate Change
By Caroline Mwanga NEW YORK (IDN) – Concerned about rising global temperatures and disastrous consequences, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on Heads of State to attend the Climate Action Summit in New York on September 23, and achieve positive change. “Don’t come with a speech, come with a plan,” he said, adding: “This is […]
The Campaign Against Greta is an Index of the Loss of Values
Viewpoint by Roberto Savio* ROME (IDN | OtherNews) – Since the powerful march of hundreds of thousands of students in 1,000 towns against climate change, an unexpected campaign of delegitimation, ”demystification” and demonisation has started against Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teenager who started the movement. After searching the media, social media and websites, this campaign can […]
Senior Malian Officers Removed from Posts After Massacre of Fulani Herdsmen
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Jihadist groups dislodged from Middle East battlegrounds are reportedly regrouping in West Africa, exploiting longstanding grievances between the Dogon farmers and the Puelh-Fulani nomadic herdsmen of Mali over access to limited supplies of land and water. A militia in Dogon attire entered Ogossagou, a Fulani […]