by Sean Reilly | Jan 6, 2008
A convoy of trucks carrying 666 tonnes of food and vegetable oil has left the Kenyan port of Mombasa, in a new effort to tackle a humanitarian crisis triggered by disputed elections and the welter of violence following in its wake. The trucks are bound for Nairobi and...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 5, 2008
The Islamic Republic of Iran has refused to renew the visa of a British journalist based in Tehran, forcing him to leave the country. They have aid they will accept a “suitable replacement”. The move reflects continuing tension between Iran and the West....
by Sean Reilly | Jan 5, 2008
As violence continues amid attempts at a settlement following the bitterly disputed elections in Kenya, the number of people displaced has increased to some half million people, according to agencies and NGOs working in the country. The Christian relief organisation...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 5, 2008
Representatives of the world’s Historic Peace Churches gathered in Solo, Indonesia in December 2007, to ask what “Peace in Our Land” means practically – through the interrelated topics of injustice, religious pluralism, and poverty. These churches – which...
by Sean Reilly | Jan 4, 2008
The UK-based international development agency Christian Aid has called on the government to impose a moratorium on the building of any new, conventional coal-fired power stations following council approval for the first such station for almost quarter of a century....
