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By Karen Allen
A year after an accord was signed in Kenya paving the way for a unique political partnership, the country is deadlocked, its people despondent and lawmakers are losing public support by the day.
The sense of frustration is almost tangible.
Continue reading Has Kenya’s power-sharing worked?
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One of the creators of the successful Israeli movie Waltz with Bashir has produced a new animated film to highlight the continued blockade of the Gaza Strip and its 1.5 million Palestinian residents.
Continue reading Closed Zone: 90 animated seconds on the closure of Gaza
While all Israel were crossing over on dry ground, the priests who bore the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood on dry ground in the middle of the Jordan, until the entire nation finished crossing over the Jordan. (Joshua 3:15-17)
The cholera crisis in Zimbabwe is a chilling illustration of the crucial link between water, sanitation, health and political responsibility. By the middle of February 2009, the WHO noted that over 70,000 people were infected and 3,524 had died.
Continue reading Dealing with our own sewage: A Jordan River perspective
The washing machine has had a greater liberating role for women than the contraceptive pill, according to a L’Osservatore Romano commentary on International Women’s Day on Sunday.
“The washing machine and the emancipation of women: put in the powder, close the lid and relax,” said the headline.
Continue reading Vatican: ‘washing machine has liberated women’
WASHINGTON, Mar 6 (OneWorld.net) – Most Peruvians don’t benefit from the country’s lucrative mining industry, and the increasing violence this situation has spurred threatens local communities, says a new report by an international anti-poverty organization. Continue reading Peru Mining Conflicts ‘Growing Critical’
In this recent photo composite image from NASA made over a span of several months and from different angles, the earth can be seen from space, 1007. Using a collection of satellited-based observations, scientists stitched together months of observations of the land surface, oceans, sea ice, and clouds into a seamless mosaic of every square mile of the planet. (NASA)
Continue reading The Great Disruption
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