An 11-year-old Ghanaian schoolboy has so far raised more than $500 (£300) for victims of the famine in Somalia. Andrew Andasi launched his campaign last week after watching footage of people walking in search of food. He told the BBC he wanted to raise a total of $13m during his school holidays […]
Un nouveau rapport de Global Witness révèle que le programme phare du WWF pour promouvoir la production durable du bois, le « Réseau International Forêt et Commerce» (Global Forest and Trade Network, GFTN), permet aux entreprises de tirer profit de leur association avec l’image de marque de WWF […]
The current drought in northern Kenya has deep roots in the current practices of pastoralists that need to be addressed, says conservationist David Western. Failed rains have tipped the balance from poverty to starvation for 12 million in the Horn of Africa. But they don't explain the depth of […]
Amadou Toumani Touré lance le PSPSDN, un vaste programme de développement et de sécurisation du nord du Mali voué à la reconquête de territoires trop longtemps abandonnés par l'État. Objectif : lutter contre l'implantation des djihadistes d'Aqmi. Amadou Toumani Touré (ATT) a donné mardi 9 août […]
Au Chili, étudiants et lycéens ont une nouvelle fois mobilisé en une «Marche pour l'éducation» ce mardi 9 août 2011. Les étudiants, mobilisés depuis deux mois, ont rassemblé à Santiago 60 000 personnes selon la police, 150 000 selon les manifestants. Et 40 000 de plus dans le pays. Il y a eu […]
The Arab world began to turn its back on Syria's president Bashar al-Assad last night after three of his Arab neighbours withdrew their ambassadors in response to the wave of killings which have blighted the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and offered stinging criticism of the regime's crackdown. […]
Wall Street stocks plummeted on Monday as skittish investors, already concerned about the economy, struggled to work out the implications of an unprecedented downgrade of the United States government’s credit rating, and sought safer places to put their money. The declines, coming in the first […]
Moustapha Abdeljalil, le président du Conseil national de transition (CNT), organe politique de la rébellion libyenne, a limogé son gouvernement, ont annoncé lundi deux porte-parole du mouvement rebelle. Moustapha Abdeljalil a demandé à Mahmoud Jibril, qui dirige actuellement le bureau […]
A torture camp run by Zimbabwe's security forces is operating in the country's rich Marange diamond fields, BBC Panorama has found. The programme heard from recent victims who told of severe beatings and sexual assault. The claims come as the European Union pushes to let some banned diamonds […]
Is there a fatal connection between the initial letter "B" and places torn apart by struggles for power between different religious communities? I started as a journalist in Belfast in the early 1970s when the city was convulsed by sectarian warfare between Catholics and Protestants. In later […]
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