The quest for oil may be the latest threat to Africa’s most venerable wildlife reserve, located in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and already hard hit by deforestation, poaching and armed conflict.
Early in March, European Development Commissioner Andris Piebalgs warned that “with oil production there would be a major risk of pollution at this site, located near the sources of the Nile.”
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A group of sub-Saharan migrants write an open letter to organizations and citizens around the world to protest their treatment by Moroccan authorities.
‘We write as sub-Saharan immigrants currently residing in Morocco. We want to communicate our inhumane living conditions and the difficulties we have living on the border between Casiago, Morocco and Ceuta, near Spain. If today we have decided to be heard it is because for the last 6 months our tears have fallen without stopping.
Continue reading Pursuing a world without migration has tragic consequences
The G8’s New Alliance for Food Security and Nutrition pushes African countries to change their policies in exchange for aid money. This will help agribusiness but will it help the hungry?
In recent weeks, the G8 has been making the headlines as Russia’s membership is threatened by its grab of the Crimean Peninsula from Ukraine.
Continue reading Food and Farmers: When Public-Private Partnerships Become Corporate Takeovers
By Jemimah Wangui
Nairobi — The government says 4,000 suspects have been arrested so far since the crackdown on terrorism started two weeks ago.
Interior Cabinet Secretary Joseph ole Lenku said that officers from the police and Immigration Department were still scrutinizing documents presented by some of the suspects for authenticity, before deciding those to be sent back to Somalia.
Continue reading Kenya: 4,000 Arrested So Far in Terror Crackdown – Lenku
Social unrest and famine, super storms and droughts. Places, species and human beings – none will be spared. Welcome to Occupy Earth
If you’re poor, the only way you’re likely to injure someone is the old traditional way: artisanal violence, we could call it – by hands, by knife, by club, or maybe modern hands-on violence, by gun or by car.
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