Amid global plunge, poor nations need up to $700 Bil.
JIM.LOBE Hit by global downturn, poor nations need up to $700 billion, says new World Bank report WASHINGTON (IPS/GIN) - In the latest in a series of increasingly dire predictions, the World Bank recently warned that developing countries may need up to $700 billion in external financing this year due to the squeeze in global credit markets, which has seen...
Conference in Libya addresses plight of Unwanted Africans mistreated in Europe
-Staff Writer- Related story:Farrakhan advises Obama on Libya policy, proper guidance for America (FCN, 03-15-2011) TRIPOLI, Libya (FinalCall.com) - Each year thousands of Africans faced with poverty and or confl ict are lured by dreams of a better life to leave their homeland for Europe. Increasingly they are met with racism, more poverty and often death when poorly made boats sink. The...
France under fire at UN for racism, police violence against protesters
France has come under fire by several states at the United Nations over racism and police violence, including against demonstrators during mass rallies over a controversial pension reform bill that finally became law. On May 1, the French government was accused of conducting attacks on migrants, racial profiling and religious intolerance during the UN Human Rights Council’s Universal Periodic Review (UPR),...
Turkey condemns EU ‘bias’ in Libya-related sanctions
Turkey says the European Union (EU) has acted with “bias” by imposing sanctions on a Turkish firm over its alleged violation of a United Nations (UN) arms embargo on Libya. The EU on Sept. 21 slapped sanctions on three companies, including Turkey’s Avrasya Shipping, whose cargo vessel Cirkin was involved in a stand off between France and Turkey in the...
‘Journey of torture’: ‘Ugly’ interrogation welcomes re-arrested Palestinians in Israeli jails
Lawyers for the Palestinian prisoners, who were recently rearrested by Israeli troops after staging a daring escape from a maximum-security Israeli jail, recount the horrifying situation that has come to face them back in Israeli captivity. The hair-raising accounts were given by Mohammed and Mahmoud al-Ardah, two of the four inmates, who were recaptured by the Israeli forces earlier in...
Justice critical to fighting sexual violence in conflict
Women’s rights are human rights, and universal in times of war and peace, a senior UN official told the Security Council on April 13, urging ambassadors to ensure accountability for conflict-related sexual violence. Pramila Patten, the Secretary-General’s Special Representative working to end rape as a weapon of war, was addressing a high-level debate on strengthening accountability as a means to...
Colombia extends cease-fire with FARC splinter group in bid to reduce rural violence
BOGOTA, Colombia—Colombia’s government has extended a cease-fire with the FARC-EMC rebel group that was set in mid-January, as both sides held peace talks in Bogota in an effort to reduce violence in rural parts of the country. The cease-fire will now last until July 15, according to a decree signed Jan. 14 by President Gustavo Petro, and it requires that the rebels cease...
Africa’s new standing army primed for peacekeeping
Birth of the African Union (FCN, 07-14-2002)African Union is made a reality (FCN, 07-24-2001)Birth of the African Union (Minister Louis Farrakhan, 07-24-2001) UNITED NATIONS, Nov 7 (IPS) - As the increasing military tension in the Horn of Africa threatens to escalate into a new war between Ethiopia and Eritrea, the 53-member African Union (AU) plans to establish its first-ever...
Annapolis: Foreign policy deception
ASKIAMSenior Correspondent Annapolis: Attempt to revive failing system of oppression (FCN, 12-16-2007)South African Archbishop likens Palestinian life to life under apartheid (FCN, 11-16-2007)Black, Palestinian solidarity in the struggle for justice (FCN, 10-25-2007)Foundation for Middle East Peace WASHINGTON (FinalCall.com) - Standing in the White House Rose Garden with the president of the Palestinian Authority and the prime minister of Israel by his...
Mali army discovers mass grave near former French base
Malian troops have discovered a mass grave close to a military base French forces handed back to the Malian army just days ago in Gossi. The Gossi military base in the north of the country was handed over to the Forces Armées Maliennes (FAMa) on April 19 as part of the French forces’ planned exit from the country. Paris plans to end its...