By Kizito Makoye DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania | 16 April 2024 (IDN) — In a hazy paediatric ward at Mlimba District Hospital, nestled in Tanzania’s eastern Morogoro region, Zuhura Mashaka cradles her two-year-old daughter, Amina, in her arms as a nurse administers a jab to quell insidious infection racking the toddler’s body. With meticulous care, […]
Niger Dumps US Soldiers, Greets Russian Instructors
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 15 April 2024 (IDN) — When Niger suspended military cooperation with the US earlier this year it was a major story for a country rarely in the media spotlight. The story has only grown bigger since then. This week, thousands of çprotesters gathered in Niamey, the […]
Nigerian Girls Who Stayed with Their Captors and Found Love
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK | 15 April 2024 (IDN) — Today marks 10 years since 276 girls were abducted from the Chibok secondary school in Borno state in one of the most high-profile mass abduction cases in Nigeria. About 90 of the girls are still missing. Fifty-seven escaped as they were […]
Sudan: UN Concerned About Fast Unfolding Humanitarian Crisis
By Caroline Mwanga NEW YORK | 14 April 2024 (IDN) — One year after war erupted between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) on 15 April 2023, Sudan is facing one of the fastest unfolding crises globally, with unprecedented needs. About 25 million people—of whom over 14 million are children—need […]
Space Warfare Is the Newest Fighting Domain
By Bharat Dogra* NEW DELHI | 14 April 2024 (IDN) — In December 2019, when the Space Force was formed in the USA, President Trump called this a big moment and added that there are “going to be a lot of things happening in space. Because space is the world’s newest war-fighting domain.” Mark Esper, […]
Understanding China’s Changing Climate Change Rhetoric
By Gu Bin Joyce* SINGAPORE | 13 April 2024 (IDN | EastAsiaForum) — China, under President Xi Jinping, has demonstrated a critical shift in its rhetoric on climate change. Unlike his predecessors, who emphasised climate equity and China’s identity as a developing country, Xi’s rhetoric constructs China as a global climate change leader. Despite China’s […]
Vaccines Don’t Save Lives, Vaccination Does
By Busani Bafana SEOUL, South Korea | 13 April 2024) (IDN) — People are no longer dying from preventable diseases thanks to vaccines. Despite this medical breakthrough, vaccine inequality has locked countries in the global south in a disease burden that would be eased through mass vaccination. COVID-19 led to approximately 7 million deaths, and […]
Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant: The “Sum of All Fears”
By Leonam dos Santos Guimarães* RIO DE JANEIRO | 12 April 2024 (IDN) — Drone attacks on the Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, whether carried out by Ukraine or Russia, introduce a new and dangerous dimension to the conflict between the two largest former Soviet Socialist Republics, with possible far-reaching ramifications, not just for the region […]
Roundtable on Current U.S. Foreign Policy: Militarism Unhinged
By Phyllis Bennis, Jackson Lears and Jeffrey Sachs NEW YORK | 12 April 2024 (IDN) — I invited three insightful analysts of present-day U.S. foreign policy to share their thoughts in a roundtable discussion. Here are excerpts from Phyllis Bennis, Jackson Lears and Jeffrey Sachs. — Norman Solomon. Question: How would you assess the most important aspects of current […]
Israel’s Gaza Genocidal Tragedy: Accountability and Accomplices
By P.I. Gomes The writer is a Former Cooperative Republic of Guyana Ambassador to the European Union and ACP Group of States, Brussels (2005 -2015) and Secretary-General of the ACP Group of States (2015-2020). PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad & Tobago | 11 April 2024 (IDN) — As Malta presides over the United Nations Security Council […]