Elahe Amani – WNN Special Featured Commentary (WNN) Los Angeles, California, UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Today her body lays lifeless as her hopes and dreams for a life of accomplishment in the United States is now buried in the cold of a Michigan winter. The police arrived at Sanaz Nezami’s home near midnight on Sunday December […]
WNN Breaking (WNN) Washington, D.C., UNITED STATES, AMERICAS: Today it is feared that the number of global child deaths from TB could go higher only because many children around the world are undiagnosed as the disease takes its toll. As more than 74,000 children continue to die each year from a deadly form of Tuberculosis. […]
Abjata Khalif – WNN Features (WNN) Nairobi, KENYA, EASTERN AFRICA: Sankuri village in the eastern Kenya region near the Indian Ocean is 300 kilometres (186 miles) from the nearest larger capital town of the province in Garissa. Known as a remote area that has poor phone communications with roads that are considered too rough and […]
WNN Breaking (WNN) Eastern DRC – DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF CONGO: On 17 August 2012, the Ministry of Health (MoH) of the Democratic Republic of Congo, notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of an outbreak of Ebola Haemorrhagic fever in the Isiro and Dungu Health Zones of Province Orientale in Eastern DRC. A total of 10 […]
Davinder Kumar – WNN Features (WNN) Kadiri, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA: Five-year-old Aliya thinks it is some kind of a game she must soon master to be a winner. From the time she wakes up till she goes to bed Aliya watches her mother and all the girls and women in her neighbourhood consumed in a […]
WNN MDG Stories (WNN) Port-au-Prince, HAITI: The informal information source Twitter was yielding data that would have been a quicker way of detecting and tracking the deadly cholera outbreak in Haiti than traditional methods, according to a study. The study found that online social media and news feeds were faster than, and broadly as accurate […]
Eva Fernández Ortiz and Shubhi Tandon – WNN Features (WNN) TOKYO: As parents from Fukushima prefecture line up in Tokyo for public protests and a more recent 7.0 level earthquake hit off shore of the east coast of Honshu, Japan on July 9, the latest data on nuclear power reveals: the amount of radiation inside […]
Nepal correspondent Nilima Raut with Shubhi Tandon – WNN Features (WNN) KATHMANDU: The centuries old practice of chhaupadi in Nepal can cause prolonged depression in girls and women. In extreme cases it can also cause death. Chhaupadi pratha, or ritual practice, places Nepali women and girls in a limbo of isolation. In history it is […]
Kenya correspondent Gitonga Njeru – WNN Features with editor Margaret Mapondera Kakamega, Kenya: At the Kakamega Provincial District General Hospital, located in Western Kenya, access to adequate and clean water still remains a pipe dream. Even though the need is critical the hospital, which works with maternity medicine and birthing procedures for women, still lacks […]
