Peter Apps
Peter Apps covered business, politics, disaster, disease, agriculture and occasional crime stories for Reuters in southern Africa before being reposted to Sri Lanka just in time for a new outbreak of civil war. A minibus crash on assignment in September 2006 broke his neck and left him quadriplegic. Nine months to the day after the crash, he was released from hospital in a wheelchair and returned to work for AlertNet in London, scheming his return to field reporting.
Backing business in Africa
Author: Peter Apps
Could Africa be more competitive than Germany, Japan or France? For the continent traditionally seen as the worst investment bet worldwide, the idea seems improbable. ...
Author: Peter Apps
Could Africa be more competitive than Germany, Japan or France? For the continent traditionally seen as the worst investment bet worldwide, the idea seems improbable. ...
Sweden shoulders the burden of Iraq's refugees
Author: Peter Apps
There seems to be increasing agreement that more must be done for refugees fleeing Iraq - but as Syria and Jordan effectively close their borders and other European countries continue to return Iraqi asylum seekers home, there are few countries willing to take in the displaced.
Britain has agreed to take persecuted Iraqi translators and their families who have worked with its armed forces, but is still returning some asylum seekers to Iraq. According to the London-based thinktank the Institute of Race Relations, one was killed by a car bomb in Kurdistan in September just weeks after being sent back.
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Author: Peter Apps
There seems to be increasing agreement that more must be done for refugees fleeing Iraq - but as Syria and Jordan effectively close their borders and other European countries continue to return Iraqi asylum seekers home, there are few countries willing to take in the displaced.
Britain has agreed to take persecuted Iraqi translators and their families who have worked with its armed forces, but is still returning some asylum seekers to Iraq. According to the London-based thinktank the Institute of Race Relations, one was killed by a car bomb in Kurdistan in September just weeks after being sent back.
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Panic, shattered shacks in Indonesia quake zone
Author: Peter Apps
Repeated after-shocks and tsunami warnings continue to spark panic in Indonesia's Sumatra region two days after Wednesday's 8.4 quake, and as aid groups reach isolated rural areas they are finding fragile wooden houses damaged or destroyed. But overall there seems to be a sense of relief that casualties were not much higher. Indonesia says only 14 people were killed and 56 injured. ...
Author: Peter Apps
Repeated after-shocks and tsunami warnings continue to spark panic in Indonesia's Sumatra region two days after Wednesday's 8.4 quake, and as aid groups reach isolated rural areas they are finding fragile wooden houses damaged or destroyed. But overall there seems to be a sense of relief that casualties were not much higher. Indonesia says only 14 people were killed and 56 injured. ...
Prospects for the disabled differ hugely between the rich and poor worlds
Author: Peter Apps
If I'm honest, my capacity for sympathy has been somewhat dented since I broke my neck a year ago, paralysing me from the neck down. Frankly, quite lot of people's problems now seem rather petty...
But one story that definitely has grabbed my attention is that of Palestinian girl Maria Amin, turning six on Thursday.
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Author: Peter Apps
If I'm honest, my capacity for sympathy has been somewhat dented since I broke my neck a year ago, paralysing me from the neck down. Frankly, quite lot of people's problems now seem rather petty...
But one story that definitely has grabbed my attention is that of Palestinian girl Maria Amin, turning six on Thursday.
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Care says no to $46 million
Author: Peter Apps
If there's one thing you don't hear of very often in the aid sector, it is relief groups turning down donations. So it's no surprise that Care International's decision to turn down $46 million of U.S. food aid has raised sparks. Care says it will phase out by 2009 "monetised" food aid from the U.S. government. This is effectively surplus grain given by the U.S. to aid groups to ship and sell in the developing world to fund relief programmes. ...
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Author: Peter Apps
If there's one thing you don't hear of very often in the aid sector, it is relief groups turning down donations. So it's no surprise that Care International's decision to turn down $46 million of U.S. food aid has raised sparks. Care says it will phase out by 2009 "monetised" food aid from the U.S. government. This is effectively surplus grain given by the U.S. to aid groups to ship and sell in the developing world to fund relief programmes. ...
