Free up ‘bottlenecks’ stifling Africa’s agri-food sector, urges FAO chief
The UN agriculture chief warned on Monday that severe underfunding of Africa’s agri-food sector has boosted food insecurity and was hampering the future development of...
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NEW YORK, May 10 (IPS) – Data, analysis and information are essential building blocks in our race to save humanity from the clear and...
How to Assess the Willingness of US to Suspend Patent Protection on Vaccines?
BRUSSELS / ROME, May 10 (IPS) – The news of the Biden Administration’s willingness to lift intellectual property rights protections in the case of...
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, May 10 (IPS) – Producers and consumers seem helpless as food all over the world comes under fast growing corporate control....
UNITED NATIONS, May 10 (IPS) – As negotiations for the upcoming election—or re-election– of a UN Secretary-General gather momentum, one undeniable fact looms heavily...
Middle East Envoys express deep concern over East Jerusalem violence
The Envoys of the Middle East Quartet (from the European Union, Russia, the United States, and the United Nations), have expressed deep concern over...
‘I am alive, but I feel like I am dead’: a migrant grieves the drowning of 3 children
Misrah, an undocumented migrant worker, and her family, left their home in Ethiopia hoping for a better life. Instead, her three children are now...
The United Nations remembers the dead of WWII
The Second World War had a profound impact on the international community, and established the conditions for the creation of the United Nations. This...
Saturday’s deadly bombing outside a high school in Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, has been condemned by leading UN officials. The attack led to...
Latin America Bets Heavily on Hydrogen
MEXICO CITY, May 08 (IPS) – Several Latin American countries are stepping up the pace to generate hydrogen for various uses in transportation and...
A duo goes against the tide to explain an origin of human endurance 
What happens when you lose your voice? 
Security Council LIVE: Syria’s fragile transition – economic strain, Israeli incursions and progress towards elections 
Colombia peace deal must endure as insecurity grows, Security Council hears