UN warns of “catastrophic” child malnutrition due to price hikes, Ukraine war
London, UKReuters The cost of life-saving treatment for the most severely malnourished children is set to jump by up to 16 per cent due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and pandemic disruptions, according to the United Nations’ children’s agency. The raw ingredients of the ready-to-eat-therapeutic food have leapt in price amid the global food crisis […]
Putting people out
Human behaviour is strange. PICTURE: Mitchell Johnson/Unsplash I’ve been riding the bus lately. You have to press a button to let the driver know you want to get off at the next stop. I remember as a kid riding the trams in Melbourne, and you had to do the same thing. I always felt self-conscious […]
The Interview: Amy Kenny, author of ‘My Body Is Not a Prayer Request’
KATHRYN POST, of Religion News Service, speaks to Amy Kenny, author of My Body Is Not A Prayer Request’, who says her body, too, is made in the image of the Divine and isn’t anything to be ashamed of…
Nigerian religious leaders appeal for international community to help address deteriorating security situation
Nairobi, Kenya Religious leaders in Nigeria are appealing to the international community to help address the deteriorating security in the country and to people of goodwill to support those persons who have been affected by the insecurity. Their appeal comes days after a priest was kidnapped by gunmen suspected to be Boko Haram terrorists on 8th […]
Essay: More mass shootings are happening at grocery stores – 13 per cent of shooters are motivated by racial hatred, criminologists find
In an article first published on The Conversation, two US professors of criminal justice – JILLIAN PETERSON and JAMES DENSLEY – look at what the data shows about mass public shootings in the US…
Postcards: In Haiti, rising gang violence drives out small business owners
JOSEPH GUYLER DELVA and ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on how mobs carrying out murder, extortion rackets and kidnappings are forcing many small traders to flee and driving up the cost of goods in an already shattered economy…
Mali junta says “Western-backed” military officers attempted coup
Bamako, MaliReuters Mali’s interim government on Monday said “Western-backed” military officers attempted a coup last week, without providing details or evidence. The purported foiled putsch took place on the night between 11th and 12th May, the junta that took power in an August, 2020, coup said in a statement. Colonel Assimi Goita, leader of Malian […]
In the US, Buffalo shooting latest example of targeted racial violence
AP Black people going about their daily lives – then dying in a hail of bullets fired by a white man who targeted them because of their skin colour. Substitute a supermarket in Buffalo, New York, with a church in South Carolina, and Malcolm Graham knows the pain and grief the families of those killed Saturday are feeling. […]