Marking World Toilet Day on November 19th, the global community faces a pressing sanitation crisis affecting 3.5 billion people. Credit: Lova Rabary-Rakontondravony/IPS Opinion by Thokozani Dlamini (pretoria, south africa) Sunday, November 19, 2023 Inter Press Service PRETORIA, South Africa, Nov 19 (IPS) – World Toilet Day 2023, on 19 November, focusing…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save A medical services company whose quality of care is a focus of a probe launched after the death of an 8-year-old girl in U.S. border custody has been selected as a finalist for a new $1.5 billion government contract, a…
© IOM/Gema Cortés Migrants come ashore from the Chucunaque River after crossing the Darién jungle. A rising number of migrants are attempting the dangerous journey across the Darién jungle spanning the Colombia-Panama border. For Etzaida Rios, 35, the impact of providing hope and help runs deep. She works as a…
Top UN officials echoed that call to improve conditions for Gaza’s 2.3 million people, 1.7 million of which have been displaced since the 7 October Hamas attack in Israel resulted in the killing of 1,200 Israelis and capture of 240 hostages. Since then, more than 11,000 people have been killed…
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Israel and Hamas are close to agreeing on a U.S.-brokered deal that could lead to a five-day pause in fighting — the first sustained break in the war — in exchange for the release of dozens of women and children held hostage in Gaza, people familiar with the terms under…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save TYRE, Lebanon — The secondary conflict that erupted along the Lebanon-Israel border in tandem with the Gaza war has settled into something of a routine. Every day for the past six weeks, Israel has attacked Lebanon and Hezbollah has attacked…
Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save JERUSALEM — Israel intensified its military campaign in parts of northern Gaza on Saturday, deploying infantry and armored corps units to densely packed areas of Gaza City, as well as to nearby Jabalya, where strikes on two U.N. schools killed…
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Doctors, patients and displaced civilians left Gaza’s largest hospital Saturday amid competing claims over who had ordered the evacuation, which aid groups described as “complex and dangerous.” The head of al-Shifa Hospital said that Israeli forces gave people one hour to evacuate and that 120 patients and about five doctors…
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