Nigerian chaos leaves refiners cold and oil unsold amid outages
LONDON (Reuters) - Refineries from India to the United States are backing away from buying Nigerian oil amid heightened uncertainty about...
Concern Worlwide: Helping Communities Recover
SOME 38 million people worldwide have fled their homes and been forced to survive elsewhere within their own country to escape armed...
A Former Child Soldier Shares His Story In New Graphic Novel
Michel Chikwanine was 5 years old when rebel militiamen kidnapped him from a soccer field near his school in the Democratic Republic of...
Why trying to help poor countries might hurt them
It sounds kind of crazy to say that foreign aid often hurts, rather than helps, poor people in poor countries. Yet that is what Angus...
Illegal guns fuel violent crime, wreak deadly havoc in South Africa
Gun-related murders are the leading cause of violent death, placing the country second in the world after the US. South Africa’s...
Environmental Crimes Change Face of Sub-Saharan Africa
The refugee crisis that has sent hundreds of thousands of people from the Middle East and Africa to Europe this year is overwhelmingly...
The Imperfect Trial of Congo’s ‘Terminator’
When Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda’s war crimes trial opened in The Hague last month, most of his victims were nearly 4,000 miles...
Congo’s bishops criticise West for failing to stop plundering of resources
Congo’s Catholic bishops have criticised the failure of Western governments to stop the abuse of Africa’s natural resources and urged...
Nigeria’s Buhari faces toughest of tests in the Niger Delta
Nigeria appears to finally be making some inroads against Boko Haram, the Islamist militant group that has plagued it for years. But as...
LETTER TO THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY: It is time to formally recognize conflict ivory
The 70th meeting of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) opened on September 15 amid an ongoing humanitarian crisis of refugees...
