https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Denmark in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed The Danish parliament unanimously passed a motion on Thursday that urges Danish companies and the Danish public sector not to trade with Western Sahara. https://www.thelocal.dk/20160602/danish-mp-tell-companies-not-to-trade-with-africas-last-colony Thu, 02 Jun 2016 15:54:41 +0200 danish-mp-tell-companies-not-to-trade-with-africas-last-colony In Ethiopia where almost nine in every 10 women give birth at home after pregnancies with little or no medical support, a mobile phone app is coming to the rescue with lifesaving guidelines when things go wrong. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151111/how-a-danish-app-is-making-childbirth-safer-in-ethiopia Wed, 11 Nov 2015 10:32:04 +0100 how-a-danish-app-is-making-childbirth-safer-in-ethiopia Beginning on Monday, the makers of the LifeStraw will be distributing clean drinking water to more than 200,000 Kenyan schoolchildren, marking the biggest water donation in Africa this year. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151102/danish-projects-biggest-private-donation-in-africa Mon, 02 Nov 2015 16:02:01 +0100 danish-projects-biggest-private-donation-in-africa November will mark forty years since Morocco invaded and colonized Western Sahara, today Africa’s last colony. Abba Malainin was only a child when he had to flee the war by foot through the desert to Algeria, to refugee camps where his family and thousands of other refugees still live today. https://www.thelocal.dk/20151002/40-years-a-refugee-copenhagen-western-sahara Fri, 02 Oct 2015 10:23:52 +0200 40-years-a-refugee-copenhagen-western-sahara With the backing of a majority of parliament, the Danish organization Afrika Kontakt is calling on the UN to step up human rights efforts and protect the native people of Western Sahara. https://www.thelocal.dk/20150412/danes-demand-human-rights-mandate-in-western-sahara Sun, 12 Apr 2015 20:04:06 +0200 danes-demand-human-rights-mandate-in-western-sahara Denmark has raised the questions of political freedom, human rights, and the trial of political activists Mario Masuku and Maxwell Dlamini with Swaziland’s government and absolute monarch King Mswati III. https://www.thelocal.dk/20141028/denmark-pressures-swaziland-on-human-rights Tue, 28 Oct 2014 12:34:00 +0100 denmark-pressures-swaziland-on-human-rights An additional 115 million kroner, health personnel and a military supply ship are among the new commitments Denmark has made to help contain the Ebola epidemic. https://www.thelocal.dk/20141023/denmark-makes-new-massive-ebola-contribution Thu, 23 Oct 2014 17:02:01 +0200 denmark-makes-new-massive-ebola-contribution With a new report warning that over one million people could contract ebola by the end of the year, Helle Thorning-Schmidt announced financial support and a medical transport ship to the international response. https://www.thelocal.dk/20140925/denmark-steps-up-contributions-to-ebola-fight Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:02:00 +0200 denmark-steps-up-contributions-to-ebola-fight As Ebola-infected patients enter Western countries for treatment, Danish health officials say the virus could never spread here as it has in Africa. https://www.thelocal.dk/20140801/ebola-risk-in-denmark-very-very-small-ssi Fri, 01 Aug 2014 14:07:00 +0200 ebola-risk-in-denmark-very-very-small-ssi