Fight and talk: Facing negotiations, Taliban almost took key Afghan city
Kabul, AfghanistanReuters Khan Agha has endured years of violence in Kunduz, but it was the Taliban’s attack on the strategic city in north-eastern Afghanistan, as the government and insurgents were preparing for historic peace talks, that unnerved him. “Like me, the majority of Kunduz residents are living in fear,” Agha, a 46-year-old driver, told Reuters. […]
Essay: The pandemic at six months – Welcome to the disillusionment phase
In an article first published on Religion News Service, JAMIE ATEN, founder of the Humanitarian Disaster Institute at Wheaton College in the US, and KENT ANNAN, director of Humanitarian & Disaster Leadership at Wheaton, look at the different phases of the coronavirus pandemic…
Postcards: Zimbabwe divorce law spurs women’s fight for property
LUNGELO NDHLOVU, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports…
UK’s giant prayer wall given green light to start construction
An English council has granted planning permission for the construction of a giant “prayer wall” near the city of Birmingham in the Midlands. To be located near Coleshill on the outskirts of the city, the ‘Eternal Wall of Answered Prayer’ will stand 59 metres high – taller than the landmark statue, ‘Angel of the North’ […]