JUBA, South Sudan (ViaNews) – Oil pollution now affects millions of people in South Sudan. Many villages have been completely destroyed by it. This has been going on for at least two decades. People in South Sudan have been waiting just as long for the world’s media to take notice of this, so as to…
NAIROBI, Kenya (ViaNews) – Eight National Cereals and Produce Board (NCPB) suspects have been arraigned in court and charged in relations to the scandal involving hundreds of millions of taxpayers money. This is part of a vicious crackdown protocol initiated by President Uhuru Kenyatta earlier this year in a bid to change the landscape of…
NAIROBI, Kenya (ViaNews) – On Thursday, Kenya is set to lay at rest one of her sporting heroes after another untimely death of an Olympian, a champion, and a history maker. The careers of this budding athlete had reached the pinnacle and he could only dare to strive for more. On August 8, 2018, the…
JUBA, South Sudan (ViaNews) – For failure to report on oil pollution’s devastation of the country, the South Sudanese Parliament issues summons to country’s Minister of Petroleum and Mining and acknowledged that oil pollution has caused flight of more than 500,000 people in Upper Nile region alone. The Petroleum Committee of South Sudan’s National Legislative…
GENEVA, Switzerland (ViaNews) – After months of conflict between the Hema and Lendu ethnic groups in eastern DR Congo’s Ituri region, UNHCR is sounding the alarm. “We really sounded the alarm last week. People are finding pieces of neighbors bodies. The barbaric acts of ISIS are surpassed here. ISIS were using guns. In Ituri they…
MUNICH, Germany (ViaNews) – In May 2018, the United Nation‘s Environment Programme published the South Sudan‘s First State of Environment Report and Outlook. From literally its first page on, the report details what such environmental and human rights organizations as Germany‘s Sign of Hope have been saying for many years. The ruthless and reckless practices…
JUBA, South Sudan (ViaNews) – Officials are now joining residents in protesting the environmental crisis in South Sudan. The newest cause for concern is the cancer-causing radioactive waste. Plug County is located in the Melut Basin, home to South Sudan’s most productive – and hence polluting – oil fields. In view of this proximity, it…
MUNICH, Germany (ViaNews) – Professor Fritz Pragst of Berlin’s Institute for Forensic Medicine is one of the leading forensic toxicologists in the world. Read: Briefing on Big Oil’s Contamination of South Sudan Professor Pragst headed a team of scientists that produced in 2017 the definitive study on the levels of lead, barium and other health-endangering…
MUNICH, Germany (ViaNews) – The contamination of South Sudan‘s water can potentially condemn an estimated number of more than 600,000 South Sudanese to painful lives and early and horrible deaths, said Klaus Stieglitz, the vice chairman of the German NGO, Sign of Hope, as reported by the German publication, Deutsche Welle. Among them, the alleged…
MUNICH, Germany (ViaNews) – VENRO, a group of 120 Germany-based NGOs providing humanitarian and development assistance around the world, produced a report entitled “Uncomfortable partners – from confrontation to cooperation: NGO’S strategies for dealing with companies”. This is an important report because it covers – in-depth – a key subject: how NGOs – the brave…
