Ukraine war could create widespread food insecurity, warns FAO
Millions of Ukrainians may soon face serious food insecurity because of the ongoing conflict, the UN warned on Tuesday, amid reports that people are...
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Response plan launched to support 1.4 million Rohingya and Bangladeshis
“Robust and sustained international support” is again needed for Rohingya refugees and the Bangladeshi communities generously hosting them, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said...
Dire impact from floods in South Sudan as new wet season looms
Flooding and displacement in South Sudan are expected to worsen when the wet season begins in around a month, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR,...
UN highlights human cost of transatlantic slave trade
The United Nations on Tuesday remembered the horrors of the transatlantic slave trade and its continued impact on the modern world, by honouring the tradition...
DR Congo: UN envoy calls for strategy to address root causes of conflict
Amid deteriorating security in the eastern part of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the top UN envoy in the country has called...
‘Difficult months ahead’ in Ukraine, as deaths rise, along with global shortages
At least 1,100 civilians have been killed in a month of fighting in Ukraine, a senior UN humanitarian official told the Security Council on Tuesday, stressing...
South Sudan: Oil Underground, Blood on the Surface
MADRID, Mar 29 (IPS) – While several politicians -and media– have been viewing the ongoing armed conflict in South Sudan as a “civil war”...
Learning from the Tuberculosis Pandemic
JOHANNESBURG, Mar 29 (IPS) – As countries around the world—from Kenya to Canada, South Africa to Sweden—relish the prospect of an unofficial transition of...
Wealthy Nations, Corporate Titans False Promises of Fair COVID-19 Recovery Exposed, How Africas Inequality Deepened
Nairobi, Kenya, Mar 29 (IPS) – Even as COVID-19 brought Africa’s already fragile health care and economic systems to the brink, wealthy states colluded...
Do we Really Need a World Ranking to Measure Happiness?
KATHMANDU, Nepal, Mar 29 (IPS) – The 10th edition of the World Happiness Report was recently published and once again the findings raised an...
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