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As international anger grows over reports of mass carnage at the hands of the Syrian regime, a U.N. Security Council draft resolution condemning Syria failed to be adopted Saturday after veto-wielding members Russia and China voted against it. Earlier, U.S. President Barack Obama urged theSecurity […]
The progress that sub-Saharan Africa has achieved in building democracy over the past generation is coming undone. After two decades of significant gains, the continent has experienced a steady decline in democracy over the last several years. In 1972, when Freedom House began publishing Freedom in the […]
ON a good day Abdenaceur Hammoudi takes home 15 dinar ($10) from selling fruit in the Tunisian coastal town of Tabarka. Since the overthrow of president Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali last January, municipal inspectors no longer demand a three-dinar-a-day bribe. But prices have risen sharply and Mr Hammoudi now […]
African Union leaders gathered on Sunday for a two-day summit in Addis Ababa selected Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi to be the body's next chairman. The AU's top post rotates among member states and is held for one year. African Union leaders chose Benin's President Thomas Boni Yayi Sunday as the […]
Growing inequality, environmental decline and "teetering" economies mean the world must change the way it does business, a UN report concludes. Health and education must improve, it says. Subsidies on fossil fuels should end, and governments must look beyond the standard economic indicator of GDP. The […]
Le recours du pouvoir à la violence pour réprimer la contestation dans les pays arabes risque de se poursuivre en 2012, selon un rapport publié lundi par Amnistie internationale. L'organisation des droits de l'homme prévient que certains régimes sont déterminés à rester au pouvoir coûte que coûte et […]
Yet more failure to make much progress on climate change in Durban means that developing countries must exert stronger political pressure. For three years in a row, there has been a disappointing end to international meetings that should have agreed on the steps needed to prevent the human and ecological […]
Le gouvernement australien s’apprête à créer un centre international de la sécurité alimentaire dans le but d’offrir son expertise technique et en recherche aux gouvernements et aux institutions en Afrique qui souhaitent en bénéficier. Le Centre international australien de sécurité alimentaire (AICFS) […]
Population growth, the increasing consumption of a global elite, and an international legal system skewed in favour of largescale investors are fuelling a worldwide rush for land that is unfolding faster than previously thought and is likely to continue, according to the largest study of international […]
We all like reports of dramatic medical and scientific breakthroughs but the reality is that most developments are incremental. As a result, important issues can get overlooked. Take malaria. Deaths from the parasitic infection - which is spread by the bites of infected mosquitoes - have been falling […]
Climate negotiators agreed a pact on Sunday that would for the first time force all the biggest polluters to take action on greenhouse gas emissions, but critics said the action plan was not aggressive enough to slow the pace of global warming. The package of accords extended the Kyoto Protocol, the only […]
The chance of a binding new climate deal involving the world's biggest greenhouse-gas emitters, China, the US and India, looks increasingly unlikely as the UN climate conference in Durban draws to a close today. In an outcome that would dash the hopes of thousands of people and many countries who feel […]
Negotiators are close to agreeing the shape of a Green Climate Fund, which is designed to help poor nations tackle global warming and nudge them towards a new global effort to fight climate change. Rich countries have pledged up to $100 billion a year by 2020 to aid poor states most directly affected by […]
Global Witness a annoncé aujourd’hui sa décision de quitter le Processus de Kimberley, dispositif international de certification instauré dans le but d’éliminer le commerce de diamants du sang. En refusant d’évoluer et de se pencher sur les liens inéluctables qui existent entre les diamants, la violence […]
Scientists have developed a vaccine that protects mice against a deadly form of the Ebola virus. First identified in 1976, Ebola fever kills more than 90% of the people it infects. The researchers say that this is the first Ebola vaccine to remain viable long-term and can therefore be successfully […]
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