India’s migrant millions: Caught between jobless villages and city hazards
KRISHN KAUSHIK and JOSEPH CAMPBELL, of Reuters, report…
Khartoum’s fearful residents hunker down amid fierce street fighting
Khartoum, Sudan/Cairo, Egypt Reuters Residents in an affluent district of Khartoum feared there would be trouble when they found their new neighbour was a commander from a paramilitary force that protesters blamed for cracking down on them in the past. Those concerns proved well-founded this week when people were forced to hunker down in their […]
Essay: Hemedti – the warlord who built a paramilitary force more powerful than the state
In an article first published on The Conversation, ALEX DE WAAL, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at The Fletcher School, Tufts University, looks at one of the key players in the conflict in Sudan…
West Africa faces acute food shortages with thousands near famine, say UN agencies
Dakar, Senegal Reuters Forty-eight million people in West and Central Africa face acute food insecurity in the coming months, a 10-year high spurred by insecurity, climate shocks, COVID-19 and high prices, United Nations humanitarian agencies warned on Tuesday. West and Central Africa has faced increasing risks caused by higher temperatures and erratic rainfall. War in […]
Wow!: Holocaust survivors, descendants join forces on social media
KIRSTEN GRIESHABER, of Associated Press, reports on the new digital campaign ‘Our Holocaust Story: A Pledge to Remember’…
In the US, judge rules Mississippi must give religious exemption on vaccines
Jackson, Mississippi, US AP Mississippi must join most other states in allowing religious exemptions from vaccinations that children are required to receive so they can attend school, a federal judge has ruled. US District Judge Sul Ozerden handed down the decision Monday in a lawsuit filed last year by several parents who say their religious […]