Northern Ethiopia facing devastating spike in preventable disease: WHO
The UN health agency WHO expressed serious concerns on Friday about a likely spike in a range of preventable diseases in Ethiopia’s northern regions...
Israel and Palestine must take steps to ‘restore calm’ in occupied West Bank
With daily violence spiralling out of control in the occupied West Bank, leaders in both Israel and Palestine need to take steps to restore...
“It is my appeal to all the representatives of States, to ensure there is no safe haven provided to any kind of terrorism whatsoever”:...
As governments grapple with cascading crises involving food, finance, energy, climate and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, UN staff on the ground have been...
In west and central Africa, some 3.4 million people need help after destructive flooding, the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said on Friday. Read the...
Droughts Dont Need To Result in Famine: Ethiopia and Somalia Show What Makes theDifference
Oct 28 (IPS) – The Horn of Africa is facing its worst drought in 40 years. Scientists suspect that a multi-year La Niña cycle...
Cambodia More Than Ever Squeezed Between Russia and the West
PHNOM PENH, Oct 28 (IPS) – Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen walks into a diplomatic minefield these days. He supports UN resolutions against Putin...
Migration for Many Venezuelans Turns from Hope to Nightmare
CARACAS, Oct 28 (IPS) – Thousands of Venezuelans who have crossed the treacherous Darien jungle between Colombia and Panama, or who have made the...
ECW’s Yasmine Sherif Asks Donors to Redouble Efforts for DRC Displaced Children
Kinshasa, Oct 28 (IPS) – Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW) director Yasmine Sherif said that she was “deeply moved” by the resilience of...
Mountain lions pushed out by wildfires take more risks
Mountain lions have no interest in people, or the built-up areas we enjoy. But after a 2018 wildfire in California, local lions took more...
AI-Driven Climate Change Pushes Frontline Communities Further Into Environmental Degradation and Poverty 
From Commitments to Action: Centering Lived Experience in NCD Responses 
UNRWA work and mandate in ‘jeopardy’, Guterres warns 
Haitians can’t wait to return home and vote in elections says Prime Minister