Tag Archives: Sea

An art exhibition in Juba, supported by the UN mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), seeks to educate people about gender and sexual based violence. Credit: UNMISS/Nektarios Markogiannis Opinion by Anwarul K. Chowdhury (new york) Tuesday, November 08, 2022 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Nov 08 (IPS) – Calling it “so disappointing …

By the time you reach Aarhus on the train from the south, there is a sense of having penetrated deep into Jylland, the long Danish peninsula whose name is often rendered as “Jutland” on English and German maps. At Fredericia, a one-time garrison town on the east coast, the overhead …

A Royal Navy frigate has seized a record-breaking £15.5 million worth of drugs from a dhow in the Arabian Sea.    According to Mail Online, HMS Montrose targeted the small vessel after the ship’s Wildcat helicopter tracked the movements of the suspect boat.   A boarding party of Royal Marines …

11 Nigerian stowaways and a Cameroonian who are aged between 24 and 40 years, have been rescued by the Liberian Immigration Service and handed over to the Nigeria Immigration Service (NIS).   The stowaways identified as Seyi Popoola, Precious Uwalogho, Ayetimiyi Kelvin, Stephen Junior, Emmanuel Benjamin, Balogun Gbenga, Temiotan Adewale, Igiebor Stephen, Hamza …

Five passengers have been killed by suspected Sea pirates who attacked their boat while they were traveling from Bille community in the Degema local government area of Rivers State.   An indigene of the community, Bebe Oyibo Jacob, said the attack happened on Friday, September 2 and has left many …

This “remarkable achievement” was made possible through the collective efforts and hard work of the Joint Coordination Centre (JCC), he said, referring to the Istanbul-based mechanism that monitors ships’ movements to ensure their compliance with the Initiative. The JCC brings together representatives from Ukraine, Russia, Türkiye and the UN – …

My first memories of Föhr lie right on the edge of certainty, the images so clouded I can’t be sure what’s real and what’s been constructed from fading photographs and old stories. This much I can say for sure: I first visited the German island in 1987 as a four-year-old, …

Coastal view from the Kalinago Territory in Dominica. Credit: Alison Kentish/IPS by Alison Kentish (united nations) Tuesday, July 26, 2022 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jul 26 (IPS) – According to the 2021 World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Latin America and the Caribbean report, extreme events have worsened …

“Yesterday, all parties made clear commitments on the global stage to ensure the safe movement of Ukrainian grain and related products to global markets. These products are desperately needed to address the global food crisis and ease the suffering of millions of people in need around the globe. Full implementation …

The Akwa Ibom State Police Command has rescued 28 fish traders kidnapped by suspected sea pirates in Uruan Local Government Area of the state.   The State Commissioner of Police, CP Olatoye Durosinmi, who disclosed this in a statement signed by spokesperson of the command, SP Odiko MacDon on Friday, July 15, …