Monthly Archive: September 2015
Mexico ranks only behind Syria and Iraq in the sheer numbers of deaths due to armed conflict. That’s according to a study released this year by the International Institute for Strategic Studies. The bulk...
As hundreds of thousands of people continue to move from the Middle East and North Africa across large swaths of Europe, many more continue to arrive in Greece and Italy. Once ashore, nearly all...
On Wednesday, Italian police cleared a refugee camp on the Mediterranean coast near the French border. About 100 people were currently living at the camp where officials say they were illegally occupying a public...
It’s been six months now since a Saudi-led coalition began bombing Yemen, ostensibly to stamp out a Houthi rebellion. Continuous airstrikes have killed thousands and devastated key infrastructure in what was already the Arab...
A clash of lifestyles is at the heart of a tense land dispute in Cameroon, pitting indigenous nomadic Mbororo cattle-herders against farmers settling in the Mbororo traditional grazing lands. The Mbororo are calling on...
Environmentalists are cautiously optimistic after Royal Dutch Shell announced Monday that the global oil giant will stop searching for oil reserves in the Arctic offshore region “for the foreseeable future.” The move follows what...
Colombia on the brink of ending its 51-year-long armed conflict Pope Francis urges Congress to act on climate, the death penalty, arms, immigration and more Emergency EU summit grapples with refugee influx, EU chief...
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of the abduction and subsequent disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa teacher’s college in the Mexican state of Guerrero. Six people were killed in a series of...
Many symphonies have been written as musical testaments to war – Shostakovitch’s “Leningrad”, written to honor the estimated 25 million Soviets who lost their lives in World War II, is just one example. But...
Peace negotiators have reached a major breakthrough to end the Western Hemisphere’s long-running armed conflict. Shannon Young has more. Download Audio After nearly three years of peace talks, the Colombian government and the FARC-...