Happy 4th Birthday to charity:water and Some Words of Encouragement

Today, our friends at charity:water turned 4 years old. Every year to celebrate their anniversary, charity:water drills a clean water well and broadcasts it live to the world. This year, things are not going quite as planned: So, the bad news is that the drill today did not work. As charity:water founder Scott Harrison says [...]

Third Day of Heavy Fighting in Somalia’s Capital Brings Death Toll to Over 80

_ From the Canadian Press: Fighting in Somalia’s capital flared for a third straight day Wednesday, killing eight people and pushing the week’s death toll past 80 as insurgents tried to force government troops back toward the presidential palace, officials said. Mortar and rocket fire forced residents to flee and closed businesses. Fighting between al-Shabab [...]

LRA Spreading Reign of Death into South Sudan

“Those Americans have strength and technology, so they can use that to catch Kony,” said Anton Juma, another member of the village militia, now sheltering at Nzara. “Our arrows are no use against their guns.” AFP When the dread-locked, AK-47 toting Lord’s Resistance Army rebels attacked the small farming village of Basukangbi in southern Sudan, [...]

Agency to prosecute three human traffickers

The three Nigerians recently arrested by marine police in Akwa Ibom State while attempting to smuggle 55 nationals of Benin, Togo and Burkina Faso to Gabon for onward movement to Europe, will soon be prosecuted, officials of the National Agency for Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP) have said. The agency also said at least [...]

Central African Republic: U.N. Outlines Options to Combat Security Threats

From the UN News Centre: The United Nations has proposed strengthening the capacities of the Central African Republic (CAR) to enable it to effectively tackle security and humanitarian challenges when the world body’s peacekeepers withdraw from the country at the end of this year. The UN Mission in the CAR and Chad (MINURCAT) was set [...]

FP: The Fastest to Die

You Can Help the People of Central African Republic by donating to our charity:water campaign here. From Foreign Policy: A study reveals how deeply the wounds of conflict have cut the Central African Republic — and not where you would expect. On July 30, the president of the Central African Republic, an eccentric army chief [...]

Central African Republic Asks U.N. For Help

From Reuters AlertNet: The Central African Republic on Tuesday pleaded with the U.N. Security Council for help as it grapples with rebels ahead of an expected withdrawal of U.N. peacekeepers stationed there and in neighboring Chad. Last month the Central African Republic announced it would delay presidential and legislative elections until Jan. 23, 2011 from [...]

Human Toll of Violence in Central African Republic Documented

You can help people in the Central African Republic by donating here. From Science Daily: Using a combination of scientific methodology and old-fashioned legwork, human rights researchers based at the University of California, Berkeley, have systematically canvassed nearly 2,000 households in the Central African Republic, carefully documenting the devastating human impact of violence in the [...]

Rwanda: “Singaporean” Autocracy Turns Into Oppression?

Rwanda’s ruling government has been known for years now to keep a tight watch on society and a somewhat harsh, though productive role, over the tiny powerhouse of a nation. Much to the praise of the international community, Rwanda has more than fully recovered from it’s 1994 genocide that ripped the central African region to [...]

Is Rwanda on the Brink of A New Genocide?

From the AFP: A leading Rwandan opposition figure excluded from next week’s presidential election said Wednesday that her country was on the brink of chaos. Victoire Ingabire, who is under house arrest and faces charges of terrorism and negating the 1994 genocide, said the world was turning a blind eye to the crisis in Rwanda. “While [...]

Next Page »