Thirteen votes in favour and two abstentions saw the UN Security Council toughen sanctions on Eritrea The UN Security Council has passed a resolution toughening sanctions against Eritrea after East African governments accused the state of plotting terrorist attacks and supporting rebel groups. The action, adopted on Monday, with 13 votes in favour [...]
The global north is at lower risk of global warming impacts and is better placed to cope than the global south, but globalisation means we are all affected reddit this Comments (80) Greater risk from increased extreme weather combined with limited social and financial ability to cope means the global south has the greatest [...]
There is a video with the report below at http://english.aljazeera.net/video/africa/2011/07/2011721185014194521.html In drought-hit Horn of Africa countries, refugees are seeking food and water in neighbouring countries as conditions deteriorate. Reporting from the Dolo Ado transit camp near the border between Somalia and Ethiopia, Al Jazeera‘s Peter Greste said the situation is a “good deal [...]
An Israeli army checkpoint in the West Bank (Mats Svensson) By Mats Svensson It is early evening in Ram, a neighborhood in the outskirts of Jerusalem. The workers are on their way home to their families. The queue is long. I am sitting in my Audi, in the diplomats’ queue. I am alone, there’s no [...]
India starts trade talks with African countries in effort to rival China The Indian prime minister arrives in Ethiopia to bolster economic and political links in a new ‘scramble for Africa’ (NB Please remember there is an Australian Defence Paper that names India and China as at least potential enemies and hence the need to [...]
