Tunisian group accuses authorities of mass expulsions of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa
TUNIS, Tunisia—Migration activists are sounding the alarm about mass expulsions and arbitrary arrests in Tunisia, where authorities are seeing more migrants arrive for attempted Mediterranean crossings from the North African nation to Europe. The Tunisian Forum for Economic and Social Rights on Jan. 8 accused the government of waging a campaign of repression against migrants at the expense of humanitarian...
Drones, peacekeeping controversial mix for United Nations
UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The irony of ironies just happened at the UN recently as nearly 60 speakers addressed the 15-member Security Council concerning “A Multidimensional Approach to Peacekeeping” and not one speaker mentioned use of drones which has been a hot topic for weeks. While the talk in UN corridors Jan. 21 centered on the rather basic tone of...
Millions of children still facing dire conditions 100 days after Türkiye-Syria quakes: UNICEF
More than six million boys and girls in Türkiye and Syria are still struggling to cope 100 days after the deadly earthquakes that hit both countries, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on May 17. In total, 2.5 million children in Türkiye, and another3.7 million in neighboring Syria, need continued humanitarian assistance, the UN agency said, appealing for greater support for...
Libya and Syria: A tale of two policies
Libya turns the nuclear spotlight on Israel (FCN, 01/26/204) UNITED NATIONS (FinalCall.com) - The United States government lifted the 23-year-old travel ban against Libya on February 26, telling U.S. corporations to begin their return to the North African nation. Officials in the Bush administration said they were satisfied with Libyan President Muammar Gadhafi's affirmation it was responsible for the bombing...
African Union to develop continental defense policy
Birth of the African Union (FCN Special Coverage 07/14/2002) African Union is made a reality (FCN Special Coverage 07/24/2001) The Birth of the African Union (Min. Louis Farrakhan 07/2001)Scholars says West fears an African Union (FCN 05/08/2001)Leaders take step toward Nkrumah's dream of One Africa (FCN 03/2001)African leaders: 'Let us unite' (FCN Special Coverage 09/21/1999) JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (PANA)–Experts on the Common African Defense and Security...
In Madagascar, pockets of famine as risks grow for children, warns WFP
“Pockets of famine” have now been reported in Southern Madagascar, the UN World Food Program (WFP) said on Oct. 2. “We have some pockets of IPC 5 or famine-like conditions, this is basically the only—maybe the first—climate change famine on earth,” said Arduino Mangoni, WFP deputy country director in Madagascar, citing IPC food insecurity assessments, which are used to gauge the level of emergency aid required. After a recent...
UN rights chief appeals for end to arbitrary detention
Arbitrary detention must end “once and for all,” UN human rights chief Volker Türk said on Jan. 3 in an appeal to governments everywhere. “At the start of this year—the 75th anniversary year of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights—I call on governments and all detaining authorities, globally, to amnesty, pardon or simply release all those detained for exercising their rights,” he said...
U.S. Foreign Policy: What is the greatest threat of them all?
JIM.LOBE WASHINGTON (IPS)–The June stunning campaign by Sunni insurgents led by the radical Islamic State of Syria and the Levant (ISIL) against the mainly Shi'a government of Iraqi President Nouri al-Maliki is stoking a growing debate here about the hierarchy of threats facing the United States in the Middle East and beyond. On one side, many foreign policy “realists” have...
Displacement, humanitarian needs surging inside Afghanistan and across region
Conflict last year had forced more than 700,000 Afghans to leave their homes and added to the 5.5 million people already displaced over past years, the UN migration agency said on Feb 8. “The ongoing crisis in Afghanistan is intensifying humanitarian needs and increasing displacement risks both inside the country, as well as across borders to countries in the region,”...
Investigative reporting details massacres, reign of terror by U.S.-backed death squads in Afghanistan
By Brett Wilkins, CommonDreams.org The Americans, said the head of one provincial government, ‘step on all the rules of war, human rights, all the things they said they’d bring to Afghanistan,’ and are ‘conducting themselves as terrorists.’ An extraordinary investigation by Australian journalist Andrew Quilty published Dec. 18 by The Intercept reveals U.S.-backed Afghan government paramilitary death squads have been waging a campaign of terror...