Outside the Super Tuesday spotlight…

by | Feb 6, 2008


  • In Kenya the death toll now tops 1,000, according to the International Red Cross (quoted in a CBC story yesterday).  The number of internally displaced people is reported to be over 304,000, although that figure’s expected to rise too.
  • Meanwile, AP reports that hundreds are dead in Chad, and that “most downtown shops and buildings have been looted”.
  • IRIN reports that two million people in Somalia face a humanitarian crisis and need urgent aid, amid large numbers fleeing from fighting in Mogadishu, attacks on aid workers, hyperinflation and drought in two regions
  • Fighting in the north of Yemen is escalating, also according to IRIN, despite a recent peace deal brokered by the Qatari government
  • And the CIA has for the first time publicly admitted waterboarding detainees.

All this and plenty more from the excellent daily news roundup emailed by the Human Security Report Project in Canada.   It’s free – if you’d like it, you can sign up here.

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  • Alex Evans

    Alex Evans is founder of Larger Us, which explores how we can use psychology to reduce political tribalism and polarisation, a senior fellow at New York University, and author of The Myth Gap: What Happens When Evidence and Arguments Aren’t Enough? (Penguin, 2017). He is a former Campaign Director of the 50 million member global citizen’s movement Avaaz, special adviser to two UK Cabinet Ministers, climate expert in the UN Secretary-General’s office, and was Research Director for the Business Commission on Sustainable Development. Alex lives with his wife and two children in Yorkshire.

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