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Archives for June 2015
International flotilla rescues 5,900 from Mediterranean in a weekend
ROME/LONDON | BY STEVE SCHERER AND WILLIAM JAMES | Sun Jun 7, 2015 | REUTERS An international rescue fleet plucked almost 5,900 migrants from rickety boats making the perilous sea crossing for North Africa to Europe on Saturday and Sunday, Italy's coastguard said. The British warship Bulwark assisted in picking up more than 1,000 refugees, including 10 pregnant women, the … [Read more...] about International flotilla rescues 5,900 from Mediterranean in a weekend
Half a million refugees gather in Libya to attempt perilous crossing to Europe
Chris Hughes on board HMS Bulwark, Saturday 6 June 2015, The Guardian (UK) Crew on board HMS Bulwark, one of 11 rescue vessels in the Mediterranean, brace themselves as thousands more migrants expected to make journey Up to half a million refugees are gathering in Libya to attempt the crossing toEurope on the deadly boats that have killed thousands already. The toll … [Read more...] about Half a million refugees gather in Libya to attempt perilous crossing to Europe
No 1’s strategy: Shock them till they’re numb
Tinyiko Maluleke, 05 JUN 2015, Mail & nGuardian (South Africa) The president appears impervious to the effect of his outrageous remarks and behaviour. In Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah a key character, the Romeo in the story, is a cultured young man with a middle-class upbringing by the name of Obinze. He ends up as an expatriate toilet cleaner in … [Read more...] about No 1’s strategy: Shock them till they’re numb
Africa is less risky than you think, says Brown
BY CAROL PATON, 05 JUNE 2015, BUSINESS DAY (South Africa) THE risks of investing in infrastructure in Africa are far less than imagined and can be mitigated, Gordon Brown, chair of the World Economic Forum Global Strategic Infrastructure Initiative told delegates at the forum’s Africa conference in Cape Town on Friday. Mr Brown, a former UK prime minister, has become a … [Read more...] about Africa is less risky than you think, says Brown
People in Power Are Quick To Call Out Injustice When They Are Harmed
NADIA WHITEHEAD, 05 JUNE 2015, NPR You're being treated unfairly at work. How do you react — voice your concerns or stay quiet? That reaction may indicate whether you're a powerful or powerless person, a study says, but it could also explain how inequality is maintained in society. Powerful people react swiftly when they are victims of unfairness, while less powerful … [Read more...] about People in Power Are Quick To Call Out Injustice When They Are Harmed
Righting past wrongs: South Carolina’s ‘evolution of conscience’
By Patrick Jonsson, Staff writer. 6 June 2015, France24 Decades after Jim Crow, one of the reddest states is making peace with – and for – its past. ROCK HILL AND EDGEFIELD, S.C. — Kevin Brackett had a problem: How, exactly, would the state of South Carolina do right by nine men sentenced to hard labor on a chain gang in 1961 for trying to order lunch at a downtown … [Read more...] about Righting past wrongs: South Carolina’s ‘evolution of conscience’
For risk-wary gold miners, small is beautiful
TORONTO | BY SUSAN TAYLOR | Fri Jun 5, 2015 | REUTERS Bigger isn't better for the world's gold miners, who are increasingly making "bite-sized" developments that carry less risk of budget disasters and fewer of the political and environmental disputes that have derailed mega-mines in recent years. Newmont Mining (NEM.N) is a prime example of how companies are responding … [Read more...] about For risk-wary gold miners, small is beautiful
Former Iraqi deputy PM Tariq Aziz dies in prison
05 Jun 2015, Aljazeera English Aziz, who was Saddam's deputy PM and foreign minister, surrendered to US forces in 2003 and had been a prisoner since. Tariq Aziz, Iraq's former deputy prime minister and foreign minister, has died in prison aged 79 years old. Iraqi officials said Aziz, who was one of the former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's top deputies, died on Friday … [Read more...] about Former Iraqi deputy PM Tariq Aziz dies in prison
Somalia: Expanding Chinese Navy Anywhere Should be a concern
25 May 2015, HAN & Geeska Afrika China is negotiating a military base in the strategic port of Djibouti, raising the prospect of US and Chinese bases in the tiny Horn of Africa nation — and the latest example of China exerting its military muscle. “There’s a much larger story, and this is emblematic,” said Alex Sullivan, an Asia-Pacific analyst at the Center for a New … [Read more...] about Somalia: Expanding Chinese Navy Anywhere Should be a concern
I’m sorry – Mujuru
Gift Phiri, News Editor • 2 JUNE 2015 • Daily News (Zimbabwe) HARARE - Former Vice President Joice Mujuru apologised to Zimbabweans last night for mistakes she and her erstwhile Zanu PF colleagues made in office and said she takes full responsibility for failing in their mandate to the nation. Mujuru, long considered a likely successor to President Robert Mugabe, poured … [Read more...] about I’m sorry – Mujuru