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The United Nations refugee agency on 3 June 2016 warned that tragically people are still fleeing violence in Sudan’s South Kordofan State, most crossing into neighboring South Sudan, as the conflict marks its fifth year this weekend.
Sudanese refugee Amal Bakith cooks the first breakfast for her children a day after arriving in Ajuong Thok camp, South Sudan. During their long journey from South Kordofan, they had only rotten food to eat. Photo: UNHCR/Rocco Nuri
African Heads of State during the official opening ceremony of the AfDB Annual meetings in Lusaka. Credit: Yoka | @vandvictors
Adesina attributes Africa’s poverty and the perennial migration of youths to Europe in search of a good life, to lack of energy.
UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under-Secretary-General and UN Women Executive Director. Credit: UN Photo/Devra Berkowitz.
Her silence was broken by the men who boastfully posted their images of the rape, deepening her abuse by showing her body to the world, in the confident expectation of approval by their peers and impunity from punishment.
**U.S. Navy and Coast Guard personnel stand guard aboard the Al Basrah Oil Terminal in July 2009. | Author: hello_rizzudo…| public domain. | Wikimedia Commons
The Iraqi military is continuing its attempt to retake the city of Fallujah from ISIS. Islamic State has demonstrated strong resistance on the ground. On Tuesday [31 May], government forces along with a Shiite militia group repelled a four-hour Islamic State attack in the city’s south. This comes a day after the Iraqi military entered southern parts of the city.
2 June 2016 – Droughts linked to El Niño and civil conflicts have pushed the number of countries currently in need of external food assistance up to 37 from 34 in March, a new report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) has found.
A woman sells rice at Haití’s Pontsonde market on the banks of the Artibonite River. Photo: FAO/Walter Astrada
The new edition of the Crop Prospects and Food Situation report adds Papua New Guinea, Haiti and Nigeria to the list of countries requiring outside help to feed their own populations or communities of refugees they are hosting.
Photo: WHO/S. Volkov
“Tobacco use is one of the largest causes of preventable non-communicable diseases, including cancers, heart and lung disease,” UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on 31 May 2016 – said in his message on the Day, which is observed annually to highlight the health risks associated with tobacco use and to advocate for effective policies to reduce tobacco consumption.
– Today we are saturated with media hype about the joys of information and communication technology (ICT). We will all be connected, all the time, by the Idiocy of Things (IoT ) devices and our social media, all converging in the cloud.
Our lives will be monitored by smart sensors in homes with smart refrigerators, toasters, TVs, doorbells, alarm systems, garages, cars and electricity meters.
We are bombarded with ads showing us how all these smart devices will improve our lives and health, bringing ever greater convenience.
Driverless cars will be safer, allowing us to read, monitor our kids or enjoy the scenery.
All this ICT and automation is already a multi-billion dollar industry and its producers are salivating over its growth and profits. Individual privacy rights and security concerns seem to be an afterthought.
Daylesford, Australia, 1 June 1 2016 — Islamophobia has become a significant factor driving politics in many Western countries.
Symbol against the construction of a Mosque. Credit: Albert Mestre. GNU Free Documentation License. Wikimedia Commons
Islamophobia – fear of Muslims – is now highly visible among European populations concerned about terrorist responses from Islamic groups claiming Jihadi links. However, it is also evident among those same populations in relation to the refugee flow from the Middle East.
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