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Ethiopia must allow in observers after killings: U.N. rights boss
GENEVA | Stephanie Nebehay | Wed Aug 10, 2016 | Reuters The U.N. human rights chief urged Ethiopia on Wednesday to allow international observers into restive regions where residents and opposition officials say 90 protesters were shot dead by security forces at the weekend. In his first comments on the incident, Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, U.N. High Commissioner for … [Read more...] about Ethiopia must allow in observers after killings: U.N. rights boss
Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
Rowan Jacobsen, €nsia | July 29, 2016 | Scientific America One of the driest countries on Earth now makes more freshwater than it needs July 19, 2016 — Ten miles south of Tel Aviv, I stand on a catwalk over two concrete reservoirs the size of football fields and watch water pour into them from a massive pipe emerging from the sand. The pipe is so large I could walk … [Read more...] about Israel Proves the Desalination Era Is Here
Last Call to Cash In on a Vicious Civil War
Justin Lynch | August 5, 2016 | Foreign Policy Two-and-a-half years into South Sudan’s fighting, the U.N. might finally make it illegal to sell tanks and attack helicopters to the combatants. JUBA, South Sudan — Latjor Thiyang was sitting on his bed in a displacement camp protected by U.N. peacekeepers here in the South Sudanese capital of Juba last month … [Read more...] about Last Call to Cash In on a Vicious Civil War
The Kremlin’s Advantage
Eugene B. Rumer | August 2, 2016 | Foreign Policy Why Cyberwar Will Continue The hack of the U.S. Democratic National Committee emails, now widely attributed to Russian intelligence, has set off a political earthquake in the United States. The brazenness of the attack, the crude attempt to intervene in a U.S. presidential election, and the equally bald-faced denial in … [Read more...] about The Kremlin’s Advantage
The Anti-Human-Trafficking Crusader
Sharmilla Ganesan | Aug 4, 2016 | The Atlantic Agnes Igoye is building a law-enforcement system to protect Uganda’s girls. Late one night in 1972, Agnes Igoye’s father cycled her expectant mother through a jungle to the nearest hospital, stopping for contractions despite the threat of lions prowling nearby. The new mother made it safely to the hospital and gave birth to a … [Read more...] about The Anti-Human-Trafficking Crusader
New Zimbabwe law allows seizure of smartphones and laptops as Mugabe turns on social media
Peta Thornycroft, Johannesburg | 7 August 2016 | The Telegraph New legislation will allow Zimbabwe's police to seize smartphones, laptops and other “gadgets” to prevent people from communicating via social media. Several demonstrations and a one-day national strike were organised over social media. These outbreaks of unrest have unnerved President Robert … [Read more...] about New Zimbabwe law allows seizure of smartphones and laptops as Mugabe turns on social media
Freeing girls trafficked to Italy for sex: ‘You will not be a slave for ever’ – video
Thousands of women and girls are being trafficked to Italy from Nigeria, into a life of forced prostitution. Abused and desperately vulnerable, they have a champion in Princess Okokon, who was herself trafficked from Nigeria in 1999. Okokon fled her captors, and, with her husband, Alberto, set up the NGO Piam Onlus. Together they have helped hundreds of women in Asti and Sicily … [Read more...] about Freeing girls trafficked to Italy for sex: ‘You will not be a slave for ever’ – video
African Union must adapt to the winds of change
William Gumede | 07 Jul 2016 | Mail & Guardian The African Union is ill-suited in its current form to secure quality democracy, inclusive development and peace on … [Read more...] about African Union must adapt to the winds of change
We’re forced by nature to share the Nile with our neighbours, says Ethiopian dam project manager
Bassem Abo Alabass in Benishangul | Thursday 4 Aug 2016 | Ahram Ahram Online traveled this week to Ethiopia to take a first hand look at the under-construction Grand Renaissance Dam and sought to gauge local opinions on the project "You have the High Dam in Egypt, and we hope to have the GERD, because we want electricity and our country to grow,” an Ethiopian … [Read more...] about We’re forced by nature to share the Nile with our neighbours, says Ethiopian dam project manager
Is the Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg’s Death Finally Solved?
Ofer Aderet, Haaretz Correspondent | Aug 07, 2016 | The Huffington Post Newly published diaries of the first KGB chief state that the Swedish diplomat was liquidated on Stalin’s orders in a Soviet prison in 1947. The mystery surrounding the disappearance and death of Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish diplomat who saved tens of thousands of Hungarian Jews during the Holocaust, … [Read more...] about Is the Mystery of Raoul Wallenberg’s Death Finally Solved?