Chinas Firms Gain a Foothold in South America as Energy Providers
WASHINGTON, May 19 (IPS) – Over the past decade, state-owned enterprises (SOEs) from China have carved out a niche as owners and operators of...
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Global trade bounced back to a record high early this year, although service industries are still a shadow of their pre-pandemic selves, UN economists UNCTAD said...
At least 60 youngsters have been killed in Gaza and another 444 have been injured in less than 10 days of conflict with Israel,...
County Climate Risk Profiles Critical and Timely for Kenyas Struggling Smallholders
NAIROBI, May 19 (IPS) – Peris Wanjiku, a smallholder farmer in Othaya, Nyeri County, which lies approximately 152 kilometres from Kenya’s capital, Nairobi, has...
COLOMBO, Sri Lanka, May 19 (IPS) – The writer is a social and medical anthropologist.We went to the Kanatte cemetery, Sri Lanka’s largest, where...
Despite a deteriorating security situation and the reverberating effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, regional troops deployed to combat terrorists in Africa’s Sahel region have scaled up the tempo...
The international community must do “all it can” to de-escalate the violence in Gaza and Israel which has left hundreds dead and injured, said the UN’s...
Under the leadership of the Government of Bangladesh, the Organization for Migration (IOM) and UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) launched a $943 million plan on...
Jamaica Failing to Cope with Plastic Waste
KINGSTON, Jamaica, Jan 20 2021 (IPS) – For decades, every time it rains heavily in Jamaica, a daunting deluge of plastic bottles and bags,...
UN development system responds with ‘solid score’ in face of COVID-19 test
As the world continues to tackle the multiple impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, from pushing some 131 million people into extreme poverty to reversing years of...
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