09/05/2012
By Andre Colling, Risk Analyst at RED24 (Think Africa Press)* – Amidst regional, tribal and ethnic tensions, Libya’s stability relies on upcoming elections being free, fair and transparent.
Interim Prime Minister Abdurrahim El-Keib. Courtesy of TEDxTripoli.
Libya is expected to hold national elections for the 200-member representative body the Public National Conference (PNC) on June 19. The outcome of the election – the first direct national poll in over 40 years – will be critical for the country’s short-to-medium-term stability.
The current government, led by the National Transitional Council (NTC), is experiencing severe domestic pressure to hold free, fair and fully representative elections following the fall of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s regime in 2011.
Numerous high-profile tribal, militia and political groups are publicly critical of the NTC’s handling of the transition and accuse it of a lack of transparency and corruption.
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09/05/2012
Niger is the worst place to be a mother in the world, replacing Afghanistan for the first time in two years, while Norway comes in at first place, according to the Save the Children’s State of the World’s Mothers report.
“Malnutrition is the underlying cause of at least a fifth of maternal mortality and more than a third of child deaths,” says the just released report.
The Best and Worst Places to Be a Mom ranking, which compares 165 countries around the globe, looks at factors such as a mother’s health, education and economic status, as well as critical child indicators such as health and nutrition.
This year, ahead of a crucial G8 meeting where President Barack Obama is expected to discuss food and agriculture, the State of the World’s Mothers report focuses on nutrition as one of the key factors in determining mothers’ and their children’s well-being.
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09/05/2012
“Much has been achieved over the past decade, but there is still much more to do,” said the Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos. However, “There are five million Afghan refugees in neighbouring countries and a significant number of people are still internally displaced.”
Afghan returnees at their vegetable patch in eastern Nangarhar province, one of the main areas of return from Pakistan | UN
Afghan refugees constitute the largest and longest-standing refugee situation in the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) history.
Despite the return of some 5.7 million Afghans to their homeland since 2002, there are still an estimated two million Afghans in Pakistan and close to one million in Iran. In recent years, return rates have slowed down, with an estimated 70,000 refugees going back to Afghanistan last year.
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