The below is a letter written by Nelson Mandela, of whom I am a great admirer. While poverty persists, there is no freedom BY NELSON MANDELA khaleejtimes.com 7 November 2006 [I have posted the poem he mentions, From the Republic of Conscience, below] IN JOHANNESBURG, this week, in the warm company of friends, like Nadine […]
Category Archives: Poverty News
African Oil Find Not Likely to Help Poor
The tiny island nation of Sao Tome is about to unlock the wealth from an estimated 11 billion barrels of oil from the seabed beneath those same Atlantic waters. The government says the oil is the answer to this country’s grinding poverty. Too often, in too many places across Africa, oil has only fomented despotism […]
Sens. Obama, Brownback To Get HIV tests
By MICHAEL R. BLOOD, Associated Press Writer LOS ANGELES – Another sign of the new Washington: bipartisan HIV testing. At a world AIDS Day conference in California next month, two potential 2008 presidential rivals — Sens. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Sam Brownback, R-Kan. — will each take an HIV test and encourage others to do […]
Pope Decries Global Hunger
Pope Benedict XVI, on Sunday, lamented increasing global hunger saying “hundreds of millions of people particularly children worldwide are hungry.” The Catholic Pontiff described it as “a scandal, which must be combated by changes in consumption and fairer distribution of resources.” Speaking from his studio window overlooking St. Peter’s Square in Rome, Benedict said that […]
Starvation And Malnutrition Linked to HIV/AIDS
Starvation and malnutrition are “fast becoming the twin perils” in the fight against HIV/AIDS, and the need for food soon might surpass the need for antiretroviral drugs among many HIV-positive people in the developing world, the AP/ABC2 News reports. According to the U.N. World Food Programme, an estimated 3.8 million people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide […]
Military Spending Over $1000 Billion, While Children Starve
Global expenditure on “defense” [sic] has crossed the 1,000 billion US dollar mark and is still rising. The peace dividend of the end of the Cold War does not seem to have had the desired effect on global defense spending after showing some promise in the initial post-Cold War years, said an Indian minister here […]