Il est urgent d’arrêter le général renégat recherché par la Cour pénale internationale
Goma, le 16 mai 2012) – Le général Bosco Ntaganda, qui s’est rebellé contre la République démocratique du Congoau début du mois d’avril 2012, a enrôlé de force au moins 149 garçons et jeunes hommes dans ses forces armées depuis le 19 avril, a déclaré Human Rights Watch aujourd’hui. Bosco Ntaganda, un ancien chef rebelle devenu général d’armée, est recherché par la Cour pénale internationale(CPI) pour crimes de guerre pour avoir recruté et utilisé des enfants soldats dans le passé.
The world is suddenly paying attention to the oft-ignored North African country of Mali, as it is racked by its most recent in a long string of crises: a coup d’etat.
This political and constitutional crisis sits atop an already extremely vulnerable situation - a volatile mix of climate change, drought, food shortages, migration and immobility, armed insurrection and heavy weapons proliferation that threaten to plunge the country into a state of instability not unlike Somalia.
The United Nations recently declared the world had met an ambitious target for halving the number of people without safe drinking water well ahead of a 2015 deadline.
It’s an impressive achievement, but not necessarily as impressive as it sounds.
The real number of people still without safe water may be as high as 4 billion – five times greater than the 800 million figure commonly cited – according to Robert Bos, an expert at the World Health Organization (WHO).
LONDON (AlertNet) - Clinical trials are underway to test a new treatment for pregnant women, which could tackle some of the leading preventable causes of death for babies in sub-Saharan Africa, researchers at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) said on Tuesday.
A large number of pregnant women in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with both malaria and sexually transmitted - reproductive tract infections (STIs - RTIs), according to a new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
KHARTOUM, Sudan, May 16, 2012 (AFP) - A UN deadline for Sudan and South Sudan to resume talks on oil and other critical issues looked likely to pass without action on Wednesday, as South Sudan accused Khartoum of stalling.
The South's lead negotiator, Pagun Amum, told AFP late Tuesday that his country is ready to resume the African Union-led talks.
