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NICK CUMMING-BRUCE | AUG. 17, 2017 | The New York Times GENEVA — A daily exodus of villagers fleeing armed conflict, hunger and sexual violence in South Sudan has pushed the number of refugees sheltering in Uganda to over one million, the United Nations refugee agency said on Thursday, urging international action to deal with what it called one of Africa’s biggest … [Read more...] about Over One Million South Sudanese Flee From Violence to Uganda

Ed Cropley | August 17, 2017 | Reuters Her husband, Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, has meanwhile showed up in South Africa for a regional summit, complicating the diplomatic dilemma now confronting the government. Mrs. Mugabe, 52, has asked for diplomatic immunity in the case, although she has not been charged. Her present whereabouts were not known to the … [Read more...] about South African borders on alert to ensure Grace Mugabe does not flee

Jenny Woodley | August 15, 2017 | The Conversation The violent scenes in Charlottesville, Virginia, that led to the death of one woman and left many more injured began as a dispute over a statue of General Robert E. Lee, which sits in a local public park. However, the controversy feeds into a much wider debate that is as old as the United States itself. So who was Lee … [Read more...] about Charlottesville, Virginia: the history of the statue at the centre of violent unrest

Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, David Beasley, Anthony Lake | Tuesday 15 August 2017 | The Independent We saw the impossible conditions that health workers face day in day out; 30,000 have not been paid their salaries in nearly a year This week Yemen reaches a grim milestone: half a million people are sick with suspected cholera this year, almost 2,000 of whom have died. It’s … [Read more...] about The biggest global cholera outbreak is happening in Yemen and, disgracefully, it’s manmade