Polio Eradication Will Take Funds and Awareness
ABUJA, Jun 22 (IPS) – For forty days, Kunle Adeyanju – a Nigerian, Rotarian, polio eradication advocate and biker – rode for more than...
Stronger Healthcare Systems Critical for Africas Socioeconomic Transformation
KIGALI, Jun 22 (IPS) – Prof. Claude Mambo Muvunyi is Director General of Rwanda Biomedical CentreSince the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare systems...
Physicists may have finally spotted elusive clusters of four neutrons
Physicists have found the strongest sign yet of a fabled four of a kind. For six decades, researchers have hunted for clusters of four...
Gravitational wave ‘radar’ could help map the invisible universe
It sounds like the setup for a joke: If radio waves give you radar and sound gives you sonar, what do gravitational waves get...
Colombia Votes for Social Justice
BOGOTA, Colombia, Jun 22 (IPS) – On Sunday, 19 June 2022, the hopes of millions of Colombians working for a more democratic, safer, ecological,...
Expensive Energy from Cheap Sources Hampers Brazils Economy
RIO DE JANEIRO, Jun 21 (IPS) – Brazil has abundant low-cost energy, but by the time it reaches the consumer it is one of...
UN humanitarians issued an alert on Tuesday over the deteriorating situation for millions of mainly women and children in northeast Nigeria who continue to...
222 million crisis-hit children currently require educational support
A shocking new UN report released on Tuesday indicates that the number of crisis-impacted school-aged children requiring educational support has grown from an estimated 75 million...
Nuclear weapons are “a deadly reminder of countries’ inability to solve problems through dialogue and collaboration”, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said on Tuesday, urging...
Scientific evidence shows that overexposure to UV radiation is the major cause of skin cancer. To help people protect themselves adequately, a consortium of...
Colombia quake: In Cali’s ruins, an ‘overwhelming sense of humanity’ 
A photographic memory is wishful thinking 
Türkiye’s changes to child detention ‘raise serious human rights concerns’ 
Ukraine: Civilian casualties hit highest level since March 2022