events in Africa
Islam’s Last Stand And The End of “Religious” History In light of the worlds many faiths and religions, specifically Islam and its last stand, when does it become necessary to enter into resistance to a state or alliance of states? Put another way, what happens when a state’s political interests are in direct conflict…
Today, 90% of the global container trade still travels by ocean, and that’s what Beijing plans to change. November 18, 2014: it’s a day that should live forever in history. On that day, in the city of Yiwu in China’s Zhejiang province, 300 kilometers south of Shanghai, the first train carrying 82 containers…
As megacities (urban areas with more than 10 million people) mushroom across the globe, we need to start thinking about how to make cities better, not simply bigger. When our urban pundit class speaks of the future of cities, we are offered glittering images of London, New York, Singapore, or Shanghai. In reality,…
Nile River: Egypt and Sudan firm up water alliance Staff They are not ordinary neighbors; they have a shared history and continue to drink from one well, the vital River Nile. They also speak the same language and sit in the same meetings as members of the Arab League, and both are non-signatories to the…
Man with 100-pound scrotum REJECTS offers to perform $1 million corrective surgery for free because his giant organ has made him famous By Michael Zennie PUBLISHED: 18 June 2012 | UPDATED: 19 June 2012 A Las Vegas man who suffers from a rare condition that made his scrotum swell to 100 pounds is basking in…
To be honest, there are a lot more regulations on the export of corn, cars or any other product, than on arms,” said Nicholas Marsh from the Norwegian Initiative on Small Arms Transfers. “Everything has to be registered with the WTO. Commerce is well-regulated. Meanwhile, arms commerce has always been excluded from international treaties.”…
A human migration that started more than a month A table made of bits and pieces, an old notebook, green crumbling walls: this is where Luul Mohamed, the 46-year-old head of the pediatrics department at Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu examines a hundred children every day. Sheesam comes in with her mother. She…
Somali refugees forced to flee drought are continuing their lives in camps across the border in Ethiopia. Resilience is hardly the word for the refugees that have trekked across the desert from deep in Somalia to Dolo Ado just over the Ethiopian border. There is a stoicism – an inner toughness – that hides the…