nouvelles et analyses humanitaires IRINnews HARARE/MASVINGO, 13 février 2014 (IRIN) - The Zimbabwean government has appealed to the international community for nearly US$20 million to help evacuate and assist 60,000 people at risk of being swept away by rapidly rising water in a partially con...
Papua New Guinea battles open defecation IRINnews GOROKA, 10 février 2014 (IRIN) - When Willie Savo needs to relieve himself, there’s only one place to go. “Near the mango tree,” the five-year-old said outside his family’s village home. “Where else am I supposed to go?...
Voila, Les Américains Sont Arrivés à Paris CounterPunch Much like Chaucer’s Prologue, most of the Dramatis Personae in historian David McCullough’s book, (Simon & Schuster, 2011), are introduced in the first chapter. In subsequent chapters the characters are introduced in chronological order, star...
Mexico City Bets On Tap Water Law To Change Habit U~T San Diego MEXICO CITY — “Drink the water.” | It’s a suggestion alien to Mexico City residents who have long shunned tap water in favor of the bottled kind and to the throngs of tourists who visit the city each year, bringing with them fears of “Mo...
Book review: In the World Interior of Capital, by Peter Sloterdijk South China Morning Post In the World Interior of Capital | by Peter Sloterdijk | Polity | 3.5 stars | Stuart Jeffries | In 1862, Fyodor Dostoevsky went to London where he visited the site for the International Exhibition in South Kensington, in the space dominated by the Cr...
How visualising data has changed life… and saved lives The Guardian From John Graunt's 'bills of mortality' to Florence Nightingale's revolutionary 'rose charts', the distillation of information into graphics has been a vital tool for scientists | The exhibition's Circles of Life illustrate the similarities between t...
Gimme Some Truth Now CounterPunch In 1998, some of the vilest secrets of South Africa’s apartheid regime emerged in the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings held in Cape Town. It’s a shame that even with the deluge of pixels spilled over the death of Nelson Mandel...
10 Shocking Ways The West Abuses Developing Countries ListVerse Alan Boyle February 14, 2014 | The developing world has been abused for centuries, used as a resource to be exploited for profit and gain. But now we’re in the 21st century, and everyone cares about being good. That’s why we have Fair Trade coffe...
More Cholera Deaths in Benue All Africa [Daily Trust]Makurdi -Death toll from the cholera cases in Benue State yesterday rose to 10 from the 307 cases recorded since the recent outbreak of the disease. State Epidemiologist, Dr. Terna Kur, who gave the update said most of the cases were com...
Official: Social media, web tracking can predict disease outbreaks Stars and Stripes WASHINGTON — Researchers tracking social media and Web searches have detected outbreaks of the flu and rare diseases in Latin America by up to two weeks before they were reported by local news media or government health agencies, a U.S. intelligenc...
US, 26 countries launch effort to fight outbreaks Lexington Herald-Leader WASHINGTON — The U.S. and 26 other countries began a new effort Thursday to prevent and fight outbreaks of dangerous infectious diseases before they spread around the globe. | U.S. health officials called the Global Health Security Agenda a pri...
Cancer Overtakes AIDS, Malaria, TB As The Leading Killer Peace FM Online Staggering statistics from the World Health Organisation (WHO) has revealed that cancer accounted for 8.2 million deaths globally, more than AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis (TB) combined in 2012. This number is expected to rise in the coming years, according to the organization. | It projects that without immediate action the global number of deaths...
