NIGERIA: Three Boko Haram Leaders Put on U.S. Terrorism List
In its first legal action against the northern Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, the U.S. State Department Thursday designated three of the group’s alleged leaders to its global terrorism list. The...
View ArticleNobel Laureate Calls for Armed Intervention in Nigeria
On the International Day of Peace, Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka visited the United Nations – and called for armed intervention against the terrorist group Boko Haram in his home country of Nigeria....
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Military Curfew Slowly Strangling Nigerian Town
The security forces barricade institutions and police formations to prevent further attacks by Boko Haram. Credit: Ahmed Usman/IPS A recent military curfew imposed on the violence-wracked north-eastern...
View ArticleCanada Eyes African Resources amid Shrinking Foreign Aid
With an initial focus on oil-producing Nigeria and mineral-rich Ghana, Ottawa is bolstering its trade strategy in Africa, but some within the international development and economic communities have...
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Teach a Woman to Farm…And She Creates Jobs
Smallholder farmer Susan Godwin employs three women to help her process the peanuts she grows and was named by Oxfam International as the 2012 Female Food Hero in Nigeria. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS...
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Q&A: Combating Gay Stigma Critical in Fight Against AIDS
As the international community comes together on Dec. 1 to celebrate World AIDS Day, a new report from UNAIDS reveals that while significant progress has been made in preventing and treating HIV/AIDS,...
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Shell Case Shows Failure of Nigerian Judiciary
Waibite Amazi, a fisherman in Nigeria's troubled oil-rich delta region, spreads out his net outside his homestead, Nigeria. Farming and fishing is the main source of livelihood for the impoverished,...
View ArticleU.S. Kiobel Decision Bucks 30 Years of Precedent
The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed a lawsuit against the Royal Dutch Shell Petroleum Company brought by alleged human rights victims. The ruling, which was handed down Wednesday, is seen as a serious...
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Can South Africa Help Nigeria to Industrialise?
South Africa has pledged to help Nigeria make the automotive sector the West African nation’s flagship industrial target. Currently German car manufacturer BMW has a plant at Rosslyn near Pretoria....
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Child Malnutrition Costs Global Economy Billions Yearly – Report
UNICEF estimates that 3.5 million children in Pakistan suffer from acute malnutrition. The EU is helping the government to cut down the malnourishment rate by 25 percent by the year 2015. Credit:...
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Communication Blackout, Rights Abuses in Nigeria’s Emergency States
The bombing of the U.N. building in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, claimed 23 lives and wounded 81 people on Aug. 26, 2011. Boko Haram claimed responsibility for the attack. Credit: Chris...
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Freeing Trade Between South Africa and Nigeria
Ajegunle, a low-lying slum in Lagos, Nigeria. Analysts say that the Nigerian market itself is huge and under-served. Credit: Sam Olukoya/IPSIf a Free Trade Area were to be negotiated between Africa’s...
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Taliban Ban Has Crippling Effects on Children
Families and health workers defy the Taliban's ban on oral polio vaccines (OPV). Credit: Ashfaq Yusufzai/IPSFour-year-old Muhammad Jihad is handicapped, and his parents know who to blame: the Taliban....
View ArticleNIGERIA: Three Boko Haram Leaders Put on U.S. Terrorism List
By Jim LobeWASHINGTON, Jun 21 2012 (IPS) In its first legal action against the northern Nigerian militant group Boko Haram, the U.S. State Department Thursday designated three of the group’s alleged...
View ArticleNobel Laureate Calls for Armed Intervention in Nigeria
By Becky BergdahlUNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 2012 (IPS) On the International Day of Peace, Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka visited the United Nations – and called for armed intervention against the...
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Military Curfew Slowly Strangling Nigerian Town
The security forces barricade institutions and police formations to prevent further attacks by Boko Haram. Credit: Ahmed Usman/IPS By Ahmed UsmanKANO, Nigeria, Nov 3 2012 (IPS) A recent military curfew...
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Lack of Funds Hampering Nigeria’s Fight Against Climate Change
By Sam OlukoyaOhono, Nigeria, Oct 29 2013 (IPS) Nigeria experienced its worst flooding which left a trail of destruction in 2012. Meteorologists are forecasting more flooding this year but, beyond...
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The Sickest Places in the World
The Agbogbloshie e-Wasteland in Ghana. Fires are set to wires and other electronics to release valuable copper and other materials. The fires blacken the landscape, releasing toxic fumes. Credit:...
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U.S. Labels Boko Haram, Ansaru as Terror Groups
Nigeria's security forces barricade institutions and police stations to prevent further attacks by Boko Haram. Credit: Ahmed Usman/IPSBy Ramy SrourWASHINGTON, Nov 14 2013 (IPS) The U.S. government has...
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Burned, Bombed, Beaten – Education Under Attack Worldwide
Naxalite fighters exploded two bombs in Belhara High School, Jharkhand, on the evening of Apr. 9, 2009. One bomb, on the school's lower floor, blasted a hole in the wall between the two classrooms, as...
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