Millions of people in Burkina Faso have been displaced due to ongoing and escalating violence.  In a move to address the humanitarian crisis, ECOWAS is ramping up efforts to collect data. It’s unclear what data ECOWAS is collecting but what is clear is that the humanitarian crisis has provided an opportunity for the UN to roll out its biometrics and digital ID agenda to refugees and displaced [...]

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A mainstay of the green lobby in the face of its growing number of critics is that climate sceptics are funded by oil, gas and coal interests. By claiming that commentators such as yours truly are merely the PR front for Big Oil, green campaigners feel that they have excused themselves from the need to make rational arguments. Profit, not reason, they claim, drives scrutiny of the climate [...]

"I knew that my 5-year-old son was sleeping next door and I was scared. The only fear I had was that my son might be harmed in some way." An Afghan cab drive has been convicted of raping a 34-year-old psychology student after she spent a night out partying, with the man committing the act inside the woman’s house while her 5-year-old child slept in the other room. The incident, [...]