UN NEWS SERVICE, 21 MAY 2013 The number of people in Africa receiving antiretroviral treatment increased from less than 1 million to 7.1 million over seven years, according to a United Nations report which documents the progress in the AIDS response in the world’s second largest continent. … read more »
Kofi Annan: Africa plundered by secret mining deals
10 May 2013 by
Africa plundered. Tax avoidance, secret mining deals and financial transfers are depriving Africa of the benefits of its resources boom, ex-UN chief Kofi Annan has said. Source: BBC News
North Korea in “state of war”…
30 March 2013 by
North Korea has announced that it has entered a “state of war” with South Korea and would deal with every inter-Korean issue accordingly. “As of now, inter-Korea relations enter a state of war and all matters between the two Koreas will be handled according to wartime protocol,” the North said in a joint statement attributed […]