14/11/2015
By Zamzami*
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13 November 2015 – For half an hour Otan wouldn’t let go. Only eight months old, he already had a vice-like grip, his nails digging so deep they left half-moon imprints in the skin of his carer. If there were trees, Otan would be swinging freely from branch to branch, his strong grip lifting him in high arcs through the forest canopy. But there were no more trees left for Otan.
8-month old Otan who lost his mother and home due to deforestation.
I was with a Greenpeace team in fire-ravaged West Kalimantan last month, when I heard some news from Linga Village, about 30 minutes by road from the capital, Pontianak in which villagers were nurturing a wild orangutan.
Otan’s home had been razed to make way for an oil plantation. Only small patches of forest were left, but in time those areas would be razed too.
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14/11/2015
With the World Health Organization (WHO) warning that diabetes will be the 7th leading cause of death by 2030, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is emphasizing that people must take steps towards leading healthy lives while governments create conditions to stem the global epidemic.
A blood glucose test is used to check for gestational diabetes, which may appear for the first time during pregnancy. Photo: WHO/PAHO/Sebastián Oliel
“Let us all step up to limit the impact of diabetes,” Ban said in his message for World Diabetes Day, which is marked annually on 14 November.
Close to 350 million people in the world have diabetes, a chronic disease that occurs when the body does not produce enough insulin or when it cannot effectively use the insulin it does produce to help the body metabolize the sugar that is formed from the food we eat.
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14/11/2015
13 November 2015 – In a reversal of a multi-year boat exodus that has seen hundreds of thousands of Somalis risk death at sea to flee their strife-riven land to seek refuge in Yemen, thousands of Yemenis are now fleeing from their own war-torn country to Djibouti, Somalia’s neighbour, across the Gulf of Aden.
General view of the Markazi refugee camp, Djibouti. Photo: UNICEF/Jordi Matas
“We have many refugees who recently arrived to the camp, and we can see from their faces and whenever we talk to them that they are traumatized,” says Abdul Rahman Mnawar, community services officer at Markazi camp where the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and its partners are providing aid in this small desert country in the Horn of Africa.
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