India PM Modi tells Putin ‘war cannot solve problems’

India PM Modi tells Putin ‘war cannot solve problems’

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi told Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in Moscow that peace was "of utmost importance" and that "war cannot solve problems". "As a friend, I have also said that for the brighter future of our next generation, peace is of utmost importance," Modi said in a speech in Hindi, sitting alongside Putin. "When innocent children are murdered, one sees them die, the […]

July 9, 2024 26

Africa

The Road to the Country: novelist Chigozie Obioma on Nigeria’s brutal civil war, love and redemption

By Chigozie Obioma, University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chigozie Obioma is the Nigerian author of the novels The Fishermen (2015) and An Orchestra of Minorities (2019), both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for their unique, folkloric tales of Nigerian life in decades past. Like them, his 2024 novel The Road to the Country is “tinged with fable and prophecy”. It’s set in the brutal Nigerian Civil […]

July 3, 2024 21

Namibia

Absent fathers, a concern in Namibia

https://youtu.be/N7Uqf4YS85I?si=mKisU2Nbu39cC-wX By Finna Kahili, via News on One Community and church leader Chinaville Vries has shared the negative impact of fatherlessness on families, stressing the crucial role fathers play in shaping children's identity and purpose. Vries was speaking during the One Economy Foundation's Be Free Campaign, which hosted a Men's Workshop on Friday in Windhoek. The dialogue aims to open discussion about matters that are important to men, creating a […]

April 30, 2024 75

Africa

Under the shadow of war in the DRC, a mining company’s actions face impunity

Land grabbing, lack of consultation, communities wiped off maps, and impunity. These are the serious accusations made against the mining company Alphamin Bisie Mining SA by the Indigenous communities of Banamwesi and Motondo, which oversee community forest concessions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Years of complaints by these communities and civil society organizations have been met with no reaction from provincial government officials or […]

March 28, 2024 16

Africa

Niger has cut military ties with the US: why this is bad for the Sahel’s security

By Olayinka Ajala, Leeds Beckett University Niger – a landlocked country of 25 million people in one of the most unstable parts of the world – recently announced it was suspending military cooperation with the United States. For over a decade, Niger has been one of America’s most reliable allies in the Sahel. The Sahel region, which stretches across Africa from the Atlantic to the Red Sea, is […]

March 20, 2024 16