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Nigerian police hunt for 200 abducted children, rule out paying ransom to armed groups
Jun 01, 2021 12:05Police in Nigeria have launched a search operation to locate about 200 school children who were abducted by armed bandits on Sunday, but have ruled out paying a ransom to secure their freedom.
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Without apology, Germany admits 'genocide' in Namibia
May 28, 2021 08:58Germany has formally recognized crimes committed by its colonial troops at the beginning of the 20th century against Namibian people as genocide.
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Congo orders partial evacuation of eruption-hit Goma
May 28, 2021 04:00Congolese authorities on Thursday ordered the partial evacuation of Goma, a city that has been rocked by hundreds of earthquakes and seen large cracks appear in the earth in the aftermath of a volcanic eruption on its doorstep at the weekend.
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Study warns that Arctic has been warming 3 times faster than rest of Earth
May 23, 2021 05:01Over the past five decades, the Arctic has warmed three times faster than the world as a whole, leading to rapid and widespread melting of ice and other far-reaching consequences that are important not only to local communities and ecosystems but to the fate of life on planet Earth.
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Third of global food production at risk from climate crisis
May 17, 2021 10:50A third of global food production will be at risk by the end of the century if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise at their current rate, new research suggests.
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After hoarding, West bickers on sharing patents as virus kills in droves
May 13, 2021 10:56South Africa’s President Cyril Ramaphosa has warned of “vaccine apartheid” as millions of people in poor countries are dying of the coronavirus with no access to vaccines and wealthy countries are hogging shots.
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Support for new malaria vaccine may be lacking in rich world
May 13, 2021 10:47The first efforts to eradicate malaria began in the 1950s under the World Health Organization’s Global Malaria Eradication Program (one that decided to leave sub-Saharan Africa out of the “global” campaign), making use of the anti-malarial drug chloroquine and spraying large areas with the insecticide DDT.
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COVID-19 takes a dire global demographic toll
May 12, 2021 00:36Pandemic deaths, disruptions to fertility and restrictions on migration are causing major social and demographic transformations worldwide.
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New Study shows ‘doomsday’ climate tipping points have wiggle room
Apr 28, 2021 10:01A recent United Nations’ report said the year 2020 was one of the three hottest years on record, marked by wildfires, droughts, floods and melting glaciers, prompting the UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres to say the world stands “on the verge of the abyss.”
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Fearing new bout of fighting, civilians flee homes in Somali capital
Apr 27, 2021 11:57Civilians caught in the middle of fighting between government forces and armed opposition militia in Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu have started to flee their homes, as disagreements over President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed’s extension of his own term takes on increasingly violent forms.