Jim Lobe
latest news & developmentsActivists welcome ICC summons on Darfur
Human rights activists have welcomed the request by the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) on Tuesday that it issue summonses against a senior Sudanese…
WHO looks to DDT for malaria control
In an important policy shift, the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Friday announced that it is urging the use of the pesticide DDT to control the spread of malaria, a…
ExxonMobil takes heat on global warming
An unusually broad coalition of 12 United States environmental and public-interest groups launched a national boycott on Tuesday of ExxonMobil, the world’s largest oil company,…
Guns, oil and power
When the leader of a powerful gang in the oil-rich Niger Delta, Alhaji Dokubo Asari, threatened to declare "all-out war" last September, global oil prices hit historic highs of…