Successful Crop Innovation Is Mitigating Climate Crisis Impact in Africa
IBADAN and MEXICO CITY, Feb 17 2021 (IPS) – 17 February – African smallholder farmers have no choice but to adapt to climate change:...
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Syria: Prolonged violence, violation and abuse ‘bound to affect generations to come’
Millions of children trapped in protracted conflict in Syria continue to endure severe violence with little support for survivors, according to the UN Secretary-General’s third report on the situation,...
COVID-19 pandemic ‘feeding’ drivers of conflict and instability in Africa: Guterres
Women and young people must be part of Africa’s plans to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic, which is feeding factors driving conflict on the...
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...
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...
Sudan: Drought and war push Darfur and Kordofan towards famine 
Navi Pillay’s Nobel Peace Prize Is a Vote of Confidence in a Global Legal Order under Fire 
Scarred blood vessels may be one clue to APOE4’s Alzheimer’s risk 
Rise in poverty is ‘a wake-up call for the world’, UN development chief says