Hundreds of human rights activists and political dissidents, mostly in the two biggest cities, are planning to hold a fast as part of the World Hunger Strike Day organized by Vietnamese worldwide to demand for human rights improvement in the communist nation in the Southeast Asia, and immediate release of prisoners of conscience. Vietnam’s security…
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CAR violence forces thousands to flee to neighboring Cameroon
Thousands of people are fleeing for safety to Cameroon to escape violence in the Central African Republic. Over the past ten days, 8,762 people of various nationalities crossed into the town of Kentzou in eastern Cameroon, including mostly Central Africans (4,764) but also foreign nationals from Chad (3,424), Cameroon (1, 497), Nigeria (43) and Mali…
Syria, Iraq, Egypt most deadly nations for journalists
New York, December 30, 2013–Syria remained the most deadly place for journalists on the job in 2013, while Iraq and Egypt each saw a spike in fatal violence, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in a new report. At least 70 journalists were killed for their work during the year, compared with 74 in 2012. The Middle East…
UNHCR to airlift aid to Typhoon Haiyan survivors in Philippines
The UN refugee agency announced today that it was organizing an emergency airlift to the Philippines, where an estimated 9.8 million people have been affected by last Friday’s devastating Typhoon Haiyan. UNHCR has already released supplies from its warehouse in Cotabato, Mindanao and is sending to Tacloban 1,400 protection kits and hygiene kits containing basic…
Rural Kenya harvests water from fog
– The misty clouds floating over the Ngong’ hills, a rocky ridge on the fringes of Nairobi city, have long provided the Maasai tribal community with dew that keeps the grass sprouting for their animals. Author: Kagondu Njagi/trust.org Lately, however, Lucy Lotuno and a few of her Maasai peers have learned that the fog also…
Migration worsening climate stresses on Tanzania’s city dwellers
Ten years ago, he arrived in Dar es Salaam from Mtwara, a town in the southeast of Tanzania, and soon found a job as salesman in a shop in the bustling Kariakoo business district. Now the 37-year-old lives with his wife and their two children in a modest home that he built himself. Author: Kizito…