One Health Approach Key to Tackling Africas Challenges
IBADAN, Nigeria, May 11 (IPS) – The COVID-19 pandemic has shown us that global health challenges cannot be solved only by health sector interventions....
Morphing noodles start flat but bend into curly pasta shapes as they’re cooked
This pasta is no limp noodle. When imprinted with carefully designed arrangements of grooves, flat pasta morphs as it cooks, forming tubes, spirals and...
Vaccine hesitancy is nothing new. Here’s the damage it’s done over centuries
As vaccines to protect people from COVID-19 started becoming available in late 2020, the rhetoric of anti-vaccine groups intensified. Efforts to keep vaccines out...
Is this the year we overcome the global economic crisis caused by the pandemic? Are our jobs in danger? Who has lost the most...
Equipped by US & Israeli Firms, Police in Botswana Search Phones for Sources
NEW YORK, May 11 (IPS) – Oratile Dikologang was naked when police officers pulled black plastic over his head during his detention in April...
Amidst an “unacceptably high plateau” in COVID-19 cases and deaths globally, the UN health agency chief on Monday shone a light on last week’s...
A UN team investigating ISIL atrocities in Iraq has established “clear and convincing evidence” of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority, the Security Council...
Pfizer’s COVID-19 vaccine is OK for kids 12 to 15 years old, FDA says
Adolescents as young as 12 may soon begin rolling up their sleeves to get COVID-19 vaccines in the United States. The U.S. Food and...
Scientists remotely controlled the social behavior of mice with light
With the help of headsets and backpacks on mice, scientists are using light to switch nerve cells on and off in the rodents’ brains...
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...
Coordinated action on clean air and climate change can net $15 for every dollar spent 
Human rights chief Türk renews call for end to spiralling Sudan war 
AI: Türk urges action before it becomes an ‘existential risk to humanity’ 
UNGA 81: A United Nations at a Turning Point