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WFP launches Zakat for Nutrition Campaign this Ramadan May 13, 2021 WFP provides poor and food insecure families in Gaza with electronic food vouchers which give them access to nutritious local products such as eggs and yoghurt in selected retail shops. — courtesy WFP/Wissam Nassar CAIRO /DUBAI — Marking the Holy month of Ramadan and Eid Al-Fitr, the UN World Food Program (WFP) has launched a campaign providing Muslims around the world with th...

Venezuelas Guaidó proposes reaching an accord with Maduro, easing of sanctions Carmen Sesin © Provided by NBC News Venezuela’s opposition leader, Juan Guaidó, on Tuesday proposed an accord with President Nicolás Maduro using sanctions relief as an incentive. “We need to reach an accord to save Venezuela,” Guaidó said in a video postedon his Twitter account. He called for free presidential, parliamentary, regional and municipal elections, with international observers ...

The event was organized by the Universal Peace Federation (UPF) and united participants around what organizers described as a moral fight against oppression, poverty and racial discrimination across the world. It was the sixth such virtual rally since August 2020, with the gatherings offering an outlet for collective optimism, hope and encouragement in what has otherwise been a challenging period for peace-oriented civil society discourse amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The event was hig...

Biden lags behind Trump and Obama, with vacant ambassador posts around globe Naomi Lim © Provided by Washington Examiner President Joe Biden could strain relations with some longtime U.S. allies unless he begins nominating ambassadors at a more rapid clip. The former Senate Foreign Relations Committee chairman campaigned, in part, on a desire to improve the countrys standing on the world stage following four years of former President Donald Trumps "America first" foreign polic...

Funding to help East African country overcome food insecurity, pandemic challenges, say officials James Tasamba   | 10.05.2021 KIGALI, Rwanda The UN World Food Program (WFP) has received €500,000 (over $608,000) funding from the EU to provide technical support for Rwanda’s COVID-19 recovery efforts. The funding will enable WFP to support Rwanda’s efforts to ensure that social protection is expanded to the most vulnerable and food insecu...

As the military’s atrocities continue, Myanmar’s crisis threatens to undermine the wider region’s security. By May 10, 2021 Anti-coup protesters hold the flag of the National League for Democracy party of ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, while others flash the three-fingered salute during a “flash mob” rally in Bahan township in Yangon, Myanmar, May 9, 2021. Credit: AP Photo Advertisement Just over three months after Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, there are ample...

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DER SPIEGEL Suche öffnen Terror in Mozambique The Curse of Natural Gas Followers of Islamic State are on the advance in southern Africa, with dreams of natural gas riches fueling the conflagration. Issa Taramade is doing what he can to maintain order in the face of brutal violence. By Fritz Schaap und Christian Werner (Photos) 07.05.2021, 20.01 Uhr Link kopieren When the slaughter began in Palma on March 24, when masked men started hacking at their victims with machetes, Issa Tarmamade was si...

A New Paradigm May 3—“Can we effectively get people alerted to the fact that we are much closer to the outbreak of nuclear war than at any moment since the Cuban Missile Crisis? The Russian Foreign Minister, Lavrov, just gave a long interview in which he said that he thinks that the situation is much more dangerous than during the Cold War, mainly because there no longer is any mutual respect among the nuclear powers,” Helga Zepp-LaRouche pointedly told the audience at a live broadcast of...

May 06, 2021 - 1:51 AM BRUSSELS - European Union defence ministers on Thursday were discussing plans to set up a military training mission in Mozambique in the coming months to help the government there take control of parts of the southern African country held by extremist rebels. The U.N. World Food Program recently warned that the humanitarian crisis caused by the extremist insurgency in the north of Mozambique is rapidly spiraling, with more than 950,000 people in urgent nee...