Britain plans to surrender its last colony in Africa – Chagos Islands – to Mauritius in Indian Ocean
Could the protracted dispute over the Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean finally be drawing to a close? Britain steadfastly insisted for decades that it was the rightful owner of what it called the British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT). But it did an apparent about-turn on November 3, 2022, when...
Report: Drought has killed 11 million livestock and over 6,000 iconic wildlife species in East Africa
Surrounded by kilometres of dried land and what remains of his famished livestock, Daniel Lepaine is a worried man. Dozens of his goats in Ngong, a town in southern Kenya, have died after three years of harrowing drought in East and Horn of Africa. The rest are on the verge...
South Sudan president meets deputy in capital Juba as fears of slide back into civil war resurface
South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir and his first deputy, Riek Machar met on Friday (today) at the State House in the capital, Juba, to discuss the recent dismissal of Defence Minister Angelina Teny. The eagerly anticipated meeting happens a week after Kiir unilaterally sacked the Defence and Veterans Affairs minister...
No safe place for millions of Ukrainians displaced by war a year after Russia launched full-scale invasion
A year after Russia launched its full-scale invasion, around 5.3 million Ukrainians – 12 per cent of the pre-war population – are displaced within the country. Many are struggling to meet their most basic needs, with the elderly and people with disabilities among the most vulnerable. “Internally displaced people (IDPs)…...
Reparations: Sexually abused by UN staff, DR Congo women are now victims of WHO policy inconsistencies
Despite informing investigators about the World Health Organization (WHO) worker who gave up her a job in exchange for sex, the woman told The New Humanitarian in February that she still hadn’t received any assistance. The woman said her fiancé ended their relationship once he found out about the abuse....
WHO sex abuse victims in DR Congo complain promised support is often too little, too late
Nearly two dozen survivors of the UN’s largest known sexual abuse scandal say the World Health Organization has been slow to make good on promises of support, and that when assistance has come it has been too little to rebuild their lives. After suffering abuse during the 2018-2020 Ebola outbreak...
Congress sub-committee on health told NIH allowed American entities to ‘conduct risky research on novel coronaviruses’
National security chair of the subcommittee Brad Wenstrup (Republican-Ohio), notes that the Wuhan Institute has a poor track record when it comes to biosafety and was conducting this research at only a level two lab (BSL2 lab) – “described as the ‘Wild West’ by Dr Jeremy Farrar, a virologist from...
Revelations: ‘No doubt’ US National Institutes of Health funded research that resulted in creation of Covid
Dr Robert Redfield, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), on Wednesday said he has “no doubt” the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dr Anthony Fauci funded gain-of-function research that likely resulted in the creation of Covid-19 and its subsequent leak. Redfield made the statement...
