Negotiations between the Lord’s Resistance Army and the Ugandan government, which restarted on April 26 in the northern Sudanese town of Juba, have given new hope to a 10-month-old peace process designed to end of one of the longest-lasting and most brutal wars in Africa.
As Nestlé shareholders gathered on Thursday in Switzerland for their annual meeting, growing numbers of voices have been questioning the company’s claims on spring water around the world and its effects on local communities. Nestlé Waters North America has been found to damage the environment through its pumping operations.
The world public rejects the United States role as a world leader, but still wants the US to do its share in multilateral efforts and does not support a US withdrawal from international affairs, says a poll released on Wednesday. The survey respondents saw the US as an unreliable ”world policeman”.
Climate change is of real concern in all parts of the world, but there is disagreement over whether the problem is urgent enough to require immediate, costly measures or whether more modest efforts will be satisfactory, according to an international poll released on Wednesday.