African leaders must recognise the enormous potentials of the continent’s informal workers and begin to integrate them better into their city-building visions and strategies. Credit: Suleiman Mbatiah/IPS Opinion Thursday, August 18, 2022 Inter Press Service Aug 18 (IPS) – African leaders are increasingly aspiring to “modernise” their cities. That is…
“I told myself that I should travel to Kabul and buy additional equipment, including a fridge, before I expanded my bakery business. This dream never came true as my country fell into the hands of the Taliban. I used to run a business in my province. I employed five women…
“Tomorrow, he will join President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan in a meeting hosted by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine,” UN Deputy Spokesman Farhan Haq told a regular press briefing in New York. “He will go on to visit Odesa and then Istanbul in the following days,” he added. Checking the grain…
Speaking from Geneva, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said drought, conflict, climate change and increasing prices for food, fuel and fertilizer, are all contributing to lack of access to sufficient food. The countries affected are Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, South Sudan, Sudan and Uganda. “Hunger and malnutrition pose a direct threat to…
The region is in the grip of a severe water crisis in all aspects – from drinking water, to irrigation, food production, and power generation – which is having an impact on health and livelihoods. Areesha camp in Al-Hasakeh, like most #IDP camps in #Syria, has many urgent needs –…
“Almost 7,500 cases were reported last week, a 20 per cent increase over the previous week, which was also 20 per cent more than the week before,” said WHO Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking during his regular press briefing from Geneva. “The primary focus for all countries must be…
Journalists, writers, both local and international, have called on the authorities in India to respect human rights and release imprisoned writes and dissident and critical voices. Protests about media freedom have become more urgent in recent years since this protest by the Mumbai Press Club. Credit: Facebook by Mehru Jaffer (lucknow)…
To avert losses triggered by the voracious pest, FAO recently delivered various equipment and machinery to the Ministry of Agriculture, Irrigation and Fisheries (MAIF) in Aden. And under the World Bank funded Yemen Desert Locust Response project, another consignment is expected to be handed over to Sana’a soon. “The project, together with other…
When Ruchika found out she was pregnant with her second child, in October 2021, she could not have imagined that she would find herself, hours before delivering her baby, in a crowded distribution queue, pleading for fuel to get to the hospital. “The majority of the crowd was sympathetic,” Ruchika…
The United States’ policy errors which led to the chaotic exit from Afghanistan were only surpassed by Pakistan’s blunder in championing the Taliban and the much more dangerous Haqqani group. The Haqqanis are now holding Afghanistan hostage. So far regional powers are still trying to engage with the Taliban but…
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