Life “very hard” for Sri Lankan fishermen in financial squall
Negombo, Sri Lanka Reuters After three weeks at sea, Anton Fernando tallies his sales of tuna and other fish on a dock in Negombo, a fishing town in Sri Lanka, where the country’s financial crisis darkens already murky waters. The math does not look good for Fernando and his crew of four among the dozen […]
Clashes in Cameroon’s north displace over 100,000 – UN agency
Geneva, SwitzerlandReuters Clashes between herders, fishermen and farmers in the far north of Cameroon have driven at least 100,000 people from their homes in the past two weeks, creating a humanitarian emergency, the United Nations refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday. Cameroonians who fled deadly intercommunal violence between Arab Choa herders and Mousgoum and Massa […]
Postcards: Fish and livelihoods poisoned by South African chemical spill
KIM HARRISBERG, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports from Durban in South Africa…
Around 11,000 Cameroonians flee to Chad after violence
N’Djamena, CameroonReuters Around 11,000 people fleeing clashes between herders and fishermen in northern Cameroon arrived in neighbouring Chad at the weekend, a provincial governor in Chad said on Monday. About 20 people have been killed in what officials say is Cameroon’s worst ethnic violence in recent memory. Clashes broke out last week between fishermen and […]
ESSAY: IN SEARCH OF MARY MAGDALENE
With the recent release of the film, Mary Magdalene, ALVIN JOHNSON takes a look at what we know about her…