A record number of solar panels were installed across Africa last year CREDIT: WIKUS DE WET/AFP via Getty Images In remote regions of Kenya, hunger can strike with devastating suddenness. Droughts and flooding, pests and disease are all ever-present threats to rural communities here and elsewhere in Africa. Making perishable harvests last is the keyContinue reading “Global health matters for the first half of August 2024”
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The genocide of the Rohingya
While governments and international media have recognised China’s culpability in the Uyghur genocide in Xinjiang, they have overlooked China’s involvement in the Rohingya genocide in Myanmar/Burma. Myanmar is home to the world’s oldest ongoing conflict, with most of the country’s 135 ethnic groups fighting against various military governments that have taken control since 1948. ThisContinue reading “The genocide of the Rohingya”
Myanmar targeting religious institutions
The news goes around that Myanmar’s military is torching and occupying churches and killing and detaining pastors in its latest brutal offensive in the majority-Christian Chin state on the northwest border with India. From the 17th to the late 19th century the Chin, a group of tribes of Mongol origin, have had a long sequenceContinue reading “Myanmar targeting religious institutions”
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