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An old man squatting outside his shelter in an internally #displaced person (#IDP) settlements in the settlement in the region around Gode, one of the major urban centers in #Ethiopia’s Somali region. Credit: James Jeffrey/IPS
#Displaced pastoralists helping a weak camel to its feet (it’s not strong enough to lift its own weight) using poles beneath its belly. In #Ethiopia's Somali region 222 sites containing nearly 400,000 displaced individuals were identified in a survey conducted by the International Organization for Migration (#IOM)
Mao Neav is the leader of a small group of bomb and mine clearers working in the Ratanakiri province of north-east #Cambodia. Twenty-five of the thirty-five clearers at the base in Ratanakiri are women. Mae Naev says ” There’s no difference between us. We are as skillful as the men”.
“The regime has imprisoned, tortured and abused 20, 000-plus young people and killed hundreds more in order to restore a semblance of order,” says Alemante Selassie, emeritus law professor at the College of William & Mary and #Ethiopia analyst. “Repression is the least effective means of creating real order in any society where there is a fundamental breach of trust between people and their rulers.”
Cahuita National Park, on Costa Rica's eastern #Caribbean coast, is suffering a process of coastal erosion which is shrinking its beaches, while the coral reefs underwater are also feeling the impact of #climatechange.
The U.S. has withdrawn all of its funding to the UN Population Fund (#UNFPA), an agency that works on #familyplanning and #reproductivehealth in over 150 countries. The decision is based on what the UNFPA says is an erroneous claim that it “supports, or participates in the management of, a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilisation (in China).”
Not that long ago #Djibouti was known for little more than French legionnaires, atrocious heat and its old railway line to Addis Ababa in #Ethiopia. Nowadays, however, this tiny republic of only about 900,000 people on the Horn of Africa coast has big plans, including turning its capital into the Dubai of #Africa.
Students at a school in an indigenous village in western #Honduras work in the school garden, where they learn about #nutrition and healthy eating. A new generation of #schoolmeals programme that combine healthy diets, public purchases of products from local farmers, and social integration with local communities is transforming school lunchrooms and communities throughout Latin America and the Caribbean.
Men lounging in Dire Dawa’s Chattara Market chewing #khat, #Ethiopia. This innocuous-looking plant has experts variously claiming it is as mild as tea or as addictive as cocaine. Hence a few years ago khat’s international reputation presented a particularly conflicting picture: it was legal in Britain, banned in the US, celebrated in Yemen and vilified in Saudi Arabia. In the Horn of Africa, khat is an institution, wielding enormous economic impact, as well as playing a major social and cultural role in societies. In the #Somaliland capital, #Hargeisa, you won’t find much khat-related dissent.
#Somaliland technically still doesn’t exist in the eyes of the rest of the political world, despite having proclaimed its independence from Somalia in 1991, following a civil war that killed about 50,000 in the region. In the capital, #Hargeisa, people encounter a mishmash of chaotic local market commerce existing alongside diaspora-funded construction including glass-fronted office buildings, Wi-Fi enabled cafes and air-conditioned gyms, all suffused with characteristic Somali energy and dynamism.
With less than half the world’s population online, #radio continues to be world’s most widely accessible source of news and information. For many of the 5 billion people who have access to a radio – it is also a form of social media – with #talkradio giving people a chance to participate live on-air.
The conviction rate for #rape in Pakistan has been less than four percent, prompting protests and legal reforms. The #impunity of rapists and the ordeal of rape victims deter the latter from seeking justice. “The shameful attitude of society, police and lawyers towards rape victims is the biggest hurdle in securing justice,” said Faisal Siddiqui, a Karachi-based lawyer.
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