‘Do one thing’ to save lives on World Drowning Prevention Day: WHO
More than 236,000 people die annually from drowning – among the leading causes of death for those aged one to 24 years, and the...
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An Integrated Regional Response for the Sahel Crisis
DAKAR, Senegal, Jul 25 (IPS) – Benoit Thierry, is Sahel Office Director of International Fund for Agriculture Development, DakarThe current Ukraine-Russia conflict is dominating...
BERLIN / TERNI, Italy, Jul 25 (IPS) – A growing mountain of data and analysis points to an unprecedented global crisis in the making,...
First Person: I go to sleep and wake up to the sound of gunfire
A young man whose community has been at the epicentre of the violence that has been raging between rival gangs in the troubled neighbourhood...
Women working together, to survive Lebanon’s economic crisis
Lebanon’s women-led cooperatives are helping communities to cope with the country’ recent wave of crises: the COVID-19 pandemic, the financial crisis, and the notorious...
The UN Secretary-General ‘unequivocally’ condemned the reported strikes this Saturday in the port of Odesa. The attack took place less than 24 hours after...
Monkeypox is an outbreak that has spread around the world rapidly, through new modes of transmission about which we understand ‘too little’, and which...
The killing of protestors by security services during large-scale demonstrations in Sudan’s capital Khartoum in June underscores the ongoing political tensions in the country....
Although the COVID-19 vaccination rollout is the biggest and fastest in history, many people most at risk are still not protected against the disease,...
An “unprecedented agreement” on the resumption of Ukrainian grain exports via the Black Sea amid the ongoing war is “a beacon of hope” in...
A new treatment could restore some mobility in people paralyzed by strokes 
What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars? 
This robot automatically tucks its limbs to squeeze through spaces 
Greta Thunberg’s new book urges the world to take climate action now