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(UN News)* — On the International Day for the Total Elimination of Nuclear Weapons marked on Saturday [26 September 2020], the UN chief has underscored the need to “reverse course and return to a common path to nuclear disarmament”.
Washington Bullets: A History of the CIA, Coups, and Assassinations, by Vijay Prashad, Sep 2020, 162 pp.
While vaunting itself as an oasis of democracy, the United States, in reality, has become a superpower by infiltrating foreign governments, obliterating entire cultures, and carrying out murderous military interventions in developing countries all over the world.
Washington Bullets is about U.S. imperialism—the bullets sent by various Washington, DC administrations to crush revolutions, assassinate democratically elected leaders—to destroy hope.
– As COVID-19 threatens farming communities across Africa already struggling with climate change, the continent is at a crossroads.
Million Belay
Will its people and their governments continue trying to replicate industrial farming models promoted by developed countries?
Or will they move boldly into the uncertain future, embracing ecological agriculture?.
It is time to choose. Africa is projected to overtake South Asia by 2030 as the region with the greatest number of hungry people.
An alarming 250 million people in Africa now suffer from “undernourishment,” the U.N. term for chronic hunger. If policies do not change, experts project that number to soar to 433 million in 2030.
Soils are lifesavers in a number of ways. Let’s give them the care they deserve! ©Africa Studio/shutterstock.com
22 September 2020 (FAO)* — When we go about our daily routines, most of us are unaware that beneath our feet lies an outstandingly diverse community of plants, animals and microbes that makes up our soils.
– About 40 kilometres out of Uganda’s capital, Kampala, in the Mpigi area, you can find an entire village hill with houses that have plastic bottles walls and car tyre rooftops.
Congolese rights activist Sabuni Francoise Chikunda is the regional winner for Africa for the UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award for her work with fellow refugees in Uganda. | Français
Congolese rights activist Sabuni Francoise Chikunda is the Nansen Refugee Award regional winner for Africa. © UNHCR/Esther Ruth Mbabazi
Activist Sabuni Francoise Chikunda has touched many lives in the three years since she arrived at Uganda’s Nakivale refugee settlement.
21 September 2020 (UNHCR)* — To the children at the reception centre, the 49-year-old with a ready smile is a dedicated English teacher.
The Guardians of the Forest, a group of indigenous Guajajara in the Brazilian state of Maranhão, struggle to defend their land from invaders and to guarantee their survival in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic.
16 September 2020 (openDemocracy)* — If we ask Olimpio Santos Guajajara when the Guardians of the Forest were founded, his answer would be very simple: in 1500, the year the Portuguese landed in Brazil with an armada under the command of Pedro Álvares Cabral.
– Concern about food loss and waste has become an increasingly important focus of attention when discussing ways to eliminate hunger which, according to the latest FAO report, already exceeds 690 million people.
Controlling the loss and waste of food is a crucial factor in reaching the goal of eradicating hunger in the world. Credit: FAO
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