Kenyas Ticking Bomb as Unemployed Youth Lured into Traffickers Dens
Nairobi, Kenya, Apr 13 (IPS) – Ahmed Bakari’s ill-fated journey to ‘greener pastures’ started with a social media private message from a stranger back...
Food Systems Should Deliver Benefits in terms of Climate, Health and Society
CAPETOWN, South Africa, Apr 13 (IPS) – Which country do you think best recognises the potential for changes to food systems to reduce emissions?...
Unintended Pregnancy Rates Highest in Africa: a Look at the Complex Reasons
Apr 13 (IPS) – The United Nations Population Fund recently released the 2022 State of World Population report. It highlights that almost half of...
Commonwealth Climate Finance Hub to Boost Belizes Delivery of Climate Change Projects
Kingston, Apr 13 (IPS) – In September 2020, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK-based Commonwealth Secretariat announced that it had dispatched...
How ancient, recurring climate changes may have shaped human evolution
Recurring climate changes may have orchestrated where Homo species lived over the last 2 million years and how humankind evolved. Ups and downs in...
Ukraine conflict putting global trade recovery at risk: WTO
The war in Ukraine has created immense human suffering but it is also putting the fragile recovery of global trade at risk, and the...
The threat of famine is very real in Somalia and South Sudan and urgent action is needed now to avoid a catastrophe, UN humanitarians...
A top UN-appointed human rights panel issued an appeal on Tuesday for faster progress towards finding the remains of those who disappeared during deadly...
WHO welcomes initiative to combat noncommunicable diseases, responsible for 7 in 10 deaths worldwide
WHO welcomes initiative to combat noncommunicable diseases, responsible for 7 in 10 deaths worldwide
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday, welcomed the setting up of a new Heads of State and Government Group to get the world back on track...
Colombia’s dynamic peace process – which saw fresh strides with the holding of a largely peaceful parliamentary election last month – will succeed or...
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