A Kenyan bishop has pointed out that Al Shabaab have killed many Muslims as well as Christians.
Mgr Joseph Alexander, Coadjutor Bishop of Garissa, said: “Al Shabaab have alienated much of the Somali population, which is mainly Muslim, by massacres committed against other Muslims.” Continue reading Kenya: Bishop says Al Shabaab have killed Muslims as well as Christians
– There is a new scramble for Africa, with ordinary people facing displacement by the affluent and the powerful as huge tracts of land on the continent are grabbed by a minority, rights activists here say.
“Our forefathers cried foul during colonialism when their land was grabbed by colonialists more than a century ago, but today history repeats itself, with our own political leaders and wealthy countrymen looting land,” Claris Madhuku, director of the Platform for Youth Development (PYD), a democracy lobby group in Zimbabwe, told IPS. Continue reading Land Seizures Speeding Up, Leaving Africans Homeless and Landless
Poverty looks pretty great if you’re not living in it. The government gives you free money to spend on steak and lobster, on tattoos and spa days, on — why not? — cruise vacations and psychic visits.
Enough serious-minded people seem to think this is what the poor actually buy with their meager aid that we’ve now seen a raft of bills and proposed state laws to nudge them away from so much excess. Missouri wants to curtail what the poor eat with their food stamps (evidence of the problem from one state legislator: “I have seen people purchasing filet mignons”). Kansas wants to block welfare recipients from spending government money at strip clubs (in legalese: any “sexually oriented business or any retail establishment which provides adult-oriented entertainment in which performers disrobe or perform in an unclothed state for entertainment”). Continue reading The double-standard of making the poor prove they’re worthy of government benefits
Scientists might have to change their projected timelines for when Greenland’s permafrost will completely melt due to man-made climate change, now that new research from Denmark has shown it could be thawing faster than expected. Continue reading Why This New Study On Arctic Permafrost Is So Scary
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