COVID-19: Omicron BA.4 and BA.5 variants, not more severe or transmissible, so far
As the coronavirus which causes COVID-19 continues to evolve, we cannot afford to ‘lose sight’ of the changes, the UN health agency said on...
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Drugged Water: A New Global Pandemic Hiding in Plain Sight?
MADRID, Apr 13 (IPS) – People around the world are unknowingly being exposed to water laced with antibiotics, which could spark the rise of...
Oil Crisis Offers Opportunities to the South and to the Green Energy Transition
CARACAS, Apr 13 (IPS) – The oil and gas supply crisis unleashed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine represents new business opportunities for the...
Unintended Pregnancy Rates Highest in Africa: a Look at the Complex Reasons
Apr 13 (IPS) – The United Nations Population Fund recently released the 2022 State of World Population report. It highlights that almost half of...
Food Systems Should Deliver Benefits in terms of Climate, Health and Society
CAPETOWN, South Africa, Apr 13 (IPS) – Which country do you think best recognises the potential for changes to food systems to reduce emissions?...
Kenyas Ticking Bomb as Unemployed Youth Lured into Traffickers Dens
Nairobi, Kenya, Apr 13 (IPS) – Ahmed Bakari’s ill-fated journey to ‘greener pastures’ started with a social media private message from a stranger back...
Eastern Africa: Millions displaced, amid growing hunger, ‘unprecedented needs’
Millions of displaced families across eastern Africa will fall deeper into hunger as food rations dwindle due to humanitarian resources being stretched to the...
Commonwealth Climate Finance Hub to Boost Belizes Delivery of Climate Change Projects
Kingston, Apr 13 (IPS) – In September 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK-based Commonwealth Secretariat announced that it had dispatched...
The threat of famine is very real in Somalia and South Sudan and urgent action is needed now to avoid a catastrophe, UN humanitarians...
Ukraine conflict putting global trade recovery at risk: WTO
The war in Ukraine has created immense human suffering but it is also putting the fragile recovery of global trade at risk, and the...
WHO calls for urgent health action across the Eastern Mediterranean 
Yemen: WFP warns of potential ‘humanitarian catastrophe’ as fighting blocks aid delivery 
Security Council LIVE: Libya in the spotlight amid ‘encouraging progress’ 
Health workers tackle taboos over drinking with new AI tool