How Ethiopian rebels’ scepticism in government’s truce is killing innocent civilians in Tigray region
The response to the conflict in Ethiopia’s Afar region is constrained by a lack of funding and the limited presence of aid organisations, which are stretched across three conflict-hit northern regions where more than nine million people need assistance, relief organisations say. The need remains highest in Tigray, where no...
How Ethiopian rebels’ scepticism in government’s truce is killing innocent civilians
The response to the conflict in Ethiopia’s Afar region is constrained by a lack of funding and the limited presence of aid organisations, which are stretched across three conflict-hit northern regions where more than nine million people need assistance, relief organisations say. The need remains highest in Tigray, where no...
My brothers and sisters are dying: Inside the killing fields in Ethiopia’s Afar Triangle region
There is only one referral hospital in Ethiopia’s north-eastern Afar region, and its doctors are overwhelmed. Patients have been arriving with bullet wounds and blast injuries in recent weeks. A lack of beds means many end up on bare mattresses on the ground. “We don’t know who died and who...
New report by maritime risk company says piracy in northern Indian Ocean, off Somali coast has reduced significantly
Piracy in the northern Indian Ocean has decreased over the last decade, and now the greatest threat to seafarers in the region is state-backed threats against shipping, particularly in the waters around Yemen, a new report reveals. In Dryad Global’s annual report for 2021/22, the maritime risk company notes that...
Military spending rises to $2 trillion as world records highest number of violent conflicts since World War II
The world is facing highest number of violent conflicts since 1945, from Yemen to Syria, Myanmar and Sudan and now the catastrophic war in Ukraine, United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres has said. Speaking about a report on Peacebuilding and Sustaining Peace, Guterres said peace is the most important task...
Stabilisation: DR Congo leadership lead strategy to co-opt former combatants into government
Ongoing efforts to bring peace and stability to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) now include P-DDRCS, a national strategy for demobilisation, disarmament, community recovery and stabilisation aimed at former combatants in the troubled central African country. The strategy’s official title is the Demobilisation, Disarmament, Community Recovery and Stabilisation Programme....
Trade sanctions: New report says war in Ukraine will speed up Europe’s move away from fossil fuels
A report last month by Leopoldina, the German National Academy of Sciences, found that Germany could survive the next winter without Russian energy, but only with extreme efforts to replace Russian gas with imports while ramping up coal-fired power plants and promoting largescale conservation and energy efficiency. It also depends...
How Russian invasion of Ukraine has reshaped oil geopolitics, transition to clean energy, climate and food
On February 22, Germany scuttled its approval of a newly built gas pipeline from Russia and is now planning to import liquefied natural gas from countries such as Qatar and the United States. Belgium is reconsidering its exit from nuclear power, while Italy, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom are...
Success of workers at global giant Amazon to form union gives flailing US labour movement fresh impetus
Last week, workers at an Amazon warehouse on Staten Island delivered one of the biggest victories for organised labour in a generation when they voted to form a union – the first such organising effort to succeed at any Amazon worksite in the United States and a stunning upset for...
Billionaire Elon Musk’s acquisition of huge stake in Twitter has ratcheted up hopes and fears over free speech
Elon Musk is one of the tech sector’s most inscrutable individuals – as evidenced by his recent decision to become Twitter’s largest shareholder. On Tuesday, four weeks after he bought a 9.2 per cent stake in the social networking platform through the purchase of nearly 73.5 million shares at a...
