From the Foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, Magnolia Athletics Camp Is Helping Girls Stay in School, Pursue Athletics and Escape the Pressures of Harmful Traditional Practices
OLOITOKTOK, Kenya, July 30 (IPS) – Before sunrise each morning, 19-year-old Josephine Sembeyo joins dozens of teenage runners leaving Magnolia Athletics Camp for training...
Dual Crises in Eastern DRC as Ebola Surges and Hunger Deepens
UNITED NATIONS, July 30 (IPS) – The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is battling the fastest-growing Ebola outbreak on record, with United Nations officials...
Financing Africa’s Digital Future: Institutions Push for Smarter, Coordinated Funding
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 30 (IPS) – Africa’s digital revolution is gathering pace, but the financing needed to sustain it remains uneven, fragmented, and...
US Casualty Figures Keep Fluctuating in War with Iran
UNITED NATIONS, July 31 (IPS) – An age-old axiom in Statistics reads: Figures Cannot Lie, But Liars Can Figure. And more so, in military...
A fire’s rumble reveals where it’s burning
Researchers tracked a prescribed grassland fire using infrasound, sound waves pitched too low for people to hear.
Mammals moving between the Americas stopped over in Mexico
Ancient mammals may have had an easier time moving across the Isthmus of Panama from north to south thanks to Mexico’s climate.
How one amino acid might help fight colon cancer and infections
Dietary arginine reduces tumor formation and viral load in mice by boosting key immune proteins.
A new monkey species has been found deep in Congo’s forests
A canopy call, a partial photo and DNA revealed a new primate species — one that may already be at risk of extinction.
Healthy pregnancies and newborns are possible after CAR T cell therapy
Women who received treatment for autoimmune diseases with CAR T cell therapy went on to have regular pregnancies and healthy babies.
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes
Sitting in an exam room, surrounded by doctors and scientists, Heather Rendulic opened her left hand for the first time since suffering a series...
Who should set the rules for AI? The UN is pushing for a safer digital future 
Bangladesh Must Face Its Quiet Crisis of Internal Displacement 
ETHIOPIA: ‘Reporting on Abuses Shouldn’t Be Treated as a Threat to National Interest’ 
UN report warns of reprisals against those who collaborate in defence of human rights