Evidence stretching back 40,000 years shows that global warming will increase drying in a region of East Africa where drought already causes humanitarian crises, writes Alex Kirby - dashing earlier hopes of increased rainfall.
… Warming world means more drought in Horn of Africa Alex Kirby | 18th October 2015 News Climate Change Africa War Science drought-ethiopia-cut.jpg … will increase drying in a region of East Africa where drought already causes …
Africa is being opened up like a tin of sardines to a new wave of resource extraction, writes Colin Todhunter. Masked under the soubriquets of 'investment', 'growth' and 'free trade', a handful of vast global corporations are systematically plundering the continent's mineral wealth and leaving desolation in their wake, backed to the hilt by that ever-faithful servant of capital - the UK government.
… The corporate scramble for Africa's minerals: Britain's new colonialism … Colin Todhunter | 14th July 2016 News Africa Mining Corporations War Economics … Western Sahara Morocco bou-craa-cut.jpg Africa is being opened up like a tin of …
The more EU politicians try to look in control of the Mediterranean refugee emergency, the more it's obvious they aren't, writes Assaad W. Razzouk. A key driver of the crisis is climate change, which is causing drought across North Africa. Europe must now tackle the root causes of the crisis, and admit its own culpability in precipitating it.
… | 24th April 2015 Comment Climate Change Africa Human Rights War Food Oceans Water … change, which is causing drought across North Africa. Europe must now tackle the root causes … of one of the key drivers of migration from Africa to Europe via Mediterranean boats: the …
The Sahrawi people of Western Sahara have been waiting 40 years for a self-determination referendum, writes Oscar Güell. But thanks to the passivity of the EU, the US and the rest of the 'international community' their wait for justice won't end any time soon. Meanwhile, Morocco settles the country with colonists and exploits its natural resources.
… still waiting for justice: Western Sahara, Africa's last colony Oscar Güell | 12th … for what is theirs." The last colony in Africa, Western Sahara is divided by the … the major European states distributed the African continent among themselves. In 1965, …
What was NATO's violent intervention in Libya really all about? Now we know, writes Ellen Brown, thanks to Hillary Clinton's recently published emails. It was to prevent the creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from economic bondage under the dollar, the IMF and the French African franc, shaking off the last heavy chains of colonial exploitation.
… Why Qaddafi had to go: African gold, oil and the challenge to … | 14th March 2016 News Finance Economics Africa Libya War Politics USA France … creation of an independent hard currency in Africa that would free the continent from …
Civil war in Casamance, a forested area of Senegal, has been fought for 30 years, while an illegal timber trade has boomed amid the insecurity. Louise Hunt reports on how community forestry is bringing peace to the region - and restoring life to the forests.
… Community forestry is defusing Africa's longest-running conflict Louise Hunt | 5th May 2014 News Forests War Africa jf-women-forest-cut.jpg Civil war in … lying to the south of Gambia - is home to Africa's longest running conflict, a 30-year …
Frankincense and myrrh are prized for their fabulous scent and are an essential ingredient in beauty products. But with 90 per cent of the global supply originating in war-torn Somalia, just how ethical can they really be?
… sap for use in beauty. But the Horn of Africa, where much of it originates, is … many of their natural resources. East African population growth has also had a big … change. This year’s drought in the Horn of Africa, one of the worst in six decades, has …
Claims that the ivory trade is financing terrorism in Africa are all based on a single unreliable source, writes Diogo Veríssimo, yet the real link between terror groups and the illegal charcoal trade barely gets a mention. Is the 'reality gap' caused by the 'Like, share, donate' cycle that drives social media and fund-raising?
… the ivory trade is financing terrorism in Africa are all based on a single unreliable … in bankrolling terrorist organisations in Africa. These include former US secretary of … it has been used to finance armed groups in Africa such as the Lord's Resistance Army or …
The world is already experiencing water scarcity driven by over-use, poor land management and climate change, writes Nafeez Ahmed. It's one of the causes of wars and terrorism in the Middle East and beyond, and if we fail to respond to the warnings before us, major food and power shortages will soon afflict large parts of the globe fuelling hunger, insecurity and conflict.
… major conflicts in the Middle East and North Africa. Numerous cities in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia are facing "short and …
After six decades of oil exploitation, Nigeria's failure to provide for its citizens and develop its economy has exposed a hollowed-out state that benefits only the politicians and plutocrats, writes Joshua Goldfond. This is the environment in which Boko Haram has flourished, and as Nigeria proves incapable of effective action or reform, there's no end in sight to the nation's misery.
… Joshua Goldfond | 10th June 2015 News Nigeria Africa Oil Politics War Society … and economic schizophrenia has created Africa's largest economy, while also … determined that Nigeria had surpassed South Africa as the continent's largest economy, yet …
The massacre of elephants for Asian ivory trade is driving the iconic African giant to extinction, writes Lewis Evans. But the 'military response' is both brutal and ineffective, all the more so as it excludes and alienates the indigenous communities who are the best defenders of nature and wildlife. The simplistic message of 'Last Days of Ivory' is both damaging and dangerous.
… | 17th November 2015 Reviews Conservation Africa Wildlife Trade War Indigenous Peoples … for Asian ivory trade is driving the iconic African giant to extinction, writes Lewis … ivory poaching and Islamist terrorism in Africa and further afield is unsupported by …
Governments worldwide have been warned: draw up plans to help populations who are being forced to move because of climate change, or face a future of growing conflict and insecurity, writes Paul Brown.
… the Mediterranean to Europe from North Africa - or to whole family groups looking for … Pacific and Caribbean island nations, and dry African countries. The adaptation programmes … Central America, the 'Greater Horn of Africa', and South-East Asia and South Asia. …
Throughout history, Islam has contributed innovative ideas that have helped advance world civilization. The al Hima initiative in Jordan is one such example. This ancient practice is currently being revived as a land management (natural resource management) strategy in pastoralist areas of the Middle East and North Africa and is being seen as a bulwark against climate change, desertification and drought. CURTIS ABRAHAM reports
… areas of the Middle East and North Africa and is being seen as a bulwark against … is a freelance writer and researcher on African development, science, the environment, biomedical/health and African social/cultural history. He has lived …
Last week the UN General Assembly's Disarmament and Security Committee voted for negotiations to begin next year on a new international treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons, writes Rebecca Johnson, bypassing the stalled Non Proliferation Treaty. One immediate consequence is to make the UK's plans to replace its Trident nuclear missile system 'completely untenable'.
… of nuclear free countries, including South Africa which eliminated its nuclear arsenal in … Brazil, Ireland, Mexico, Nigeria and South Africa, with 57 co-sponsors, calls for the … weapons when they don't have any. Several African and Latin American diplomats reported …
A fusion of drone systems and chemical agents is set to transform the landscape of combat for states and non-state actors alike, writes Paul Rogers. These technologies won't just be used for warfare, but for 'public order' ... suppressing riots, protests and political dissent. Forget water cannon - this is the real deal.
… paramilitary activity across much of northern Africa. Behind the positive headlines about … and other groups across a range of fronts. Africa in particular is witnessing a …
Revenues obtained from the often illegal extraction and supply of commodities such as timber and diamonds are directly bankrolling corrupt regimes and armed insurgency groups, and fund the purchase of weapons and other contraband goods that perpetuate cycles of conflict.
… across large swathes of South East Asia, Africa and Latin America. Logging concessions … rackets have since been uncovered in several African countries, including Liberia and the … also fuelled a number of deadly conflicts in Africa, particularly in Sierra Leone, Ivory …
The real nature of war and its impacts on people and environment can only be understood through its ecology, surgeon Gus Abu-Sitta tells Andre Vltchek: the causes of conflict, the dynamics that sustain it, the corporate and strategic interests bent on its perpetuation, the deliberate destruction of health provision, and the repeating cycles of infection, injury, poverty and human misery which have become a permanent reality for uncounted millions.
… the rest of the world - the Middle East, Africa, parts of Asia - and they are actually … of what I was told in 2015 in Pretoria, South Africa, where I was invited to participate as … in some of the worst slums on Earth, those in Africa, Central America and Caribbean, South …
Reports that Syria's iconic Northern Bald Ibis colony is endangered by IS's capture of Palmyra are mistaken, writes Gianluca Serra. The species is already extinct as a breeding population for reasons unconnected with IS. The war that is destroying Syria came only as the last straw for a long-dwindling species whose plight the world chose to ignore.
… 3,200 km between western Arabia and Eastern Africa (and I really doubt this), are we … its native range (Middle East and Eastern Africa) is an irreversible loss for the …
The military targeting of civilian infrastructure, especially of water supplies, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions, writes Nafeez Ahmed. Yet this is precisely what NATO did in Libya, while blaming the damage on Gaddafi himself. Since then, the country's water infrastructure - and the suffering of its people - has only deteriorated further.
… Nafeez Ahmed | 14th May 2015 News Libya Africa Water War Law …
War on Iraq is about a lot more than boosting oil companies’ profits. It’s the latest battle in the ongoing war over who gets to control the earth’s remaining energy reserves. By Lutz C Kleveman.
… in other energy-rich regions such as West Africa and the Caspian Sea. There too, the …
Jeremy Corbyn came under attack yesterday for his refusal to countenance the use of nuclear weapons, writes Commander Robert Green. But his stance is honourable and both legally and strategically correct - especially with his opposition to renewing the Trident nuclear missile system.
… 'There was no international impact when South Africa and Ukraine abandoned nuclear weapons.' …
There's a plan afoot in Yemen, writes Martha Mundy, but no one is telling you about it. It's a plan so big that a country of 20 million people has to be starved and bombed into total submission, yet the world is indifferent. Yes, its oil. Lots of oil, and gas too, and lakes of fossil water, all lurking beneath the desert sands of the Arabian peninsula. How do we know? Because they told us.
… commerce on the Indian Ocean and open to East Africa but subject to the management choices … field in Ethiopia, it will unite the Horn of Africa under Ethiopia's leadership. And a bridge shall be built between the African continent and the Arabian Peninsula: …
In trying to evaluate charitable interventions in 'value for money' terms, the movement for 'Effective Altruism' has lost its moral compass, Sam Earle & Rupert Read. The real changes the world needs are profound, systemic and political. There is no better example than the refugee crisis: the problem is not insufficient aid, but structural inequality, too many weapons, and too much war.
… swathes of refugees from the Middle East and Africa to increase steadily in coming years as … be cheaper to help people in less expensive Africa. But it is not only in emergency relief …
How much of the mainstream media coverage given to COP21 and the Paris Agreement mentioned the mysterious exemption given to the US's massive military and security machine? None, writes Joyce Nelson. Not only are these emissions entirely outside the UNFCCC process, but a 'cone of sillence' somehow prevents them from even forming part of the climate change discourse.
… the US military alliance now blanketing Africa." [5] Flounders noted that these 1998 …