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Ethiopia: editor illegally arrested and removed from Addis

Reporters Without Borders is alarmed by newspaper editor Melaku Desmisse’s illegal arrest in Addis Ababa by police from the Southern Nations, Nationalities and Peoples’ Regional State (SNNPR) and his subsequent illegal transfer to Awasa, the capital city of the SNNPR.…

War on migrants behind Lampedusa tragedy

By Corinna Lotz, A World to Win secretary, 8 October 2013, How terrible, how sad, said the politicians from Italy to England. Pope Francis called the shipwreck a “disgrace” and offered prayers for the victims. Italy took the easy route…

West Africa: Humanists and Journalists join ranks

On the day celebrating the birth of Mahatma Gandhi, October 2, that has also been decreed as International Day of Non-Violence by the United Nations organisation, three agencies of the Humanist Movement in Mali, being – World Without Wars and…

Potential breakthrough anti-Malaria vaccine

Published by Science : “We report that the PfSPZ Vaccine—composed of attenuated, aseptic, purified, cryopreserved PfSPZ—was safe and well-tolerated when administered four to six times intravenously (IV) to 40 adults…These data indicate that there is a dose-dependent immunological threshold for…

West African Humanist Forum Conakry 2013

During three days, from Thursday 19 September to Saturday 21 September 2013, at a Conakry’s Hotel, the 4th Chapter of the WEST AFRICAN HUMANIST FORUM took place with the theme: PEACE AND NONVIOLENCE. This historic rendezvous for humanists in Guinea…

Qualified Chadians in France Support Public Health, Higher Education at Home

GENEVA, Switzerland, September 24, 2013/African Press Organization (APO)/ — UNDP has allocated an additional USD 150,000 to the pilot phase of an IOM-UNDP-Government of Chad joint project: “Strengthening Public Health and Higher Education Sectors Services in Chad through Mobilization of…

Western Sahara – Apologies and compensations to the Sahrawi nation

Colonialism Reparation calls on Morocco to immediately withdraw from the occupied territories thus allowing the organization of the referendum on the final status of Western Sahara decided by the United Nations in 1991 and calls on Spain and Morocco to…

Supporters of Morsi refuse to leave protest camps in Cairo

Thousands of supporters of Egypt’s ousted president, Mohamed Morsi, have refused to leave their protest camps in Cairo as the interim government’s deadline draws to an end.   A large number of demonstrators are protesting the military coup against the…

Ethiopia – Day of the African Child

The Day of the African Child commemoration was observed on 14 June 2013 at the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa.  The objective of the commemoration was to call attention to: “protecting children against harmful social and cultural practices: our…

Post-Morsi Egypt Fuel For Al-Qaeda Fires

By Eric Walberg* The removal of Egypt’s first democratically elected president, Mohammed Morsi, by the army threatens to open a Pandora’s box. Al-Qaeda’s post-Bin Laden leader, (Egyptian) Ayman Zawahiri, has always been focused on combating local regimes and Arab rulers,…

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