20/08/2016
WINDHOEK, Aug 18 2016 (IPS) – Let us start with some good news. Sort of. The strongest El Niño in 35 years is coming to an end. [1]
Monique Barbut
In 2015/2016 this “El Niño effect” led to drought in over 20 countries [2].
There were scorching temperatures, water shortages and flooding around the world. Worst hit were eastern and southern Africa[3]
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And though the worst of the drought is coming to an end, predictions are high (at about 75%) that La-Nina will arrive later in 2016. La Niña – El Niño’s opposite number – is known for the flooding it brings.
To understand what that means for people, you just have to look at the numbers about food insecurity[4].
32 million people in southern Africa were affected by food insecurity as a result. Across Africa, 1 million children required treatment for severe acute malnutrition.
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20/08/2016
15 August 2016 (RT)* –
We have activists who have been detained for saying that they would like to do something – not the fact that they had done something – and this is a worrying trend, Annie Machon, former MI5 agent, told RT.
**Photo: The sign outside the current New Scotland Yard building, located in Victoria, London. | Author: Man vyi | public domain.| Wikimedia Commons.
Scotland Yard is creating a special unit designed to counter online harassment in the UK. The program will cost almost 2 million pounds, with five detectives and an army of volunteers, hunting down Internet trolls.
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20/08/2016
18 August 2016 (RT)* – Repeated errors by the US and its inability to understand the bigger picture in the Middle East, as well as its wars in the region, will continue with no end in sight for millions of civilians, says Matthew Hoh, a former US State Department official.
**Photo: Taliban police patrolling the streets of Herat in a pickup truck | Author: bluuurgh | public domain. | Wikimedia Commons
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20/08/2016
By Farrah Khan*
18 August, 2016 (Greenpeace) – The courageous Inuit community of Clyde River is standing up to protect their Arctic home from devastating seismic blasting.
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The circumpolar Arctic is home to four million people representing a diversity of cultures. As northerners, they share many connections, but in this year of record breaking high temperatures, one stands out among the rest: the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth.
Inevitably, this means daily life for those who live in the Arctic is changing fast, too.
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20/08/2016
Reporting that 650 children have been recruited into armed groups in South Sudan since January, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNCEF) on 19 August 2016 called for an immediate end to recruitment and an unconditional release of all children by armed actors.
Gatkuoth, 15-years-old (not his real name), was recently released from an armed group in South Sudan. He was recruited when he was just thirteen. UNICEF estimate that there are still 16,000 children associated with armed groups in the country. Photo: UNICEF/UN028379/Rich
“The dream we all shared for the children of this young country has become a nightmare,” said Justin Forsyth, UNICEF Deputy Executive Director said today in a news release issued by the agency.
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20/08/2016
The heart breaking photograph of Omran Daqneesh, the little boy sitting alone in an ambulance with his face and body covered in blood and dirt after being pulled from a destroyed building has reminded the world, yet again, of the unimaginable horrors that Syrian children face every day, a spokesperson for the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on 19 August 2016 said.
In East Ghouta, Syria, rural Damascus, a child’s plush toy lies in the rubble of a destroyed building (file photo). Credit: UNICEF/UN013166/Al Shami
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20/08/2016
A demonstrator holds up an anti-U.N. poster during a protest outside a UN base in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Credit: Ansel Herz/IPS
“The UN has become convinced that it needs to do much more regarding its own involvement in the initial outbreak and the suffering of those affected by cholera,” Deputy Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General, Farhan Haq said in a statement shared with IPS.
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