Malawi Suffers Worst Cholera Outbreak in Decades — Global Issues

Malawi Suffers Worst Cholera Outbreak in Decades — Global Issues

Cholera ward in a health centre in Blantyre. Malawi has experienced a massive rise in cholera in the past year. Credit: Charles Mpaka/IPS by Charles Mpaka (blantyre) Monday, January 09, 2023 Inter Press Service BLANTYRE, Jan 09 (IPS) – On March 3, 2022, Malawi declared a cholera outbreak after a district…

African Parliamentarians Strongly Committed to Population and Development — Global Issues

African Parliamentarians Strongly Committed to Population and Development — Global Issues

APDA organizes regular conferences bringing together various parliamentarians from Asia, Africa, the Americas, and Europe to address critical issues on population and development – including youth employment and other issues arising from ICPD25 take center stage. Here Bridget Bedu takes a test in computational electronics as her daughter Giovana plays…

European Energy Crisis Hits Roma Populations Hard — Global Issues

European Energy Crisis Hits Roma Populations Hard — Global Issues

Roma community protest in the Serbian city of Nis after dozens of families in a settlement in the city had their electricity cut off. Credit: Opre Roma Srbija by Ed Holt (bratislava) Thursday, January 05, 2023 Inter Press Service BRATISLAVA, Jan 05 (IPS) – As European households brace for energy shortages…

Africas Maternal Deaths Need Urgent Action to Meet SDG Goals — Global Issues

Africas Maternal Deaths Need Urgent Action to Meet SDG Goals — Global Issues

Africa needs to urgently invest in health programmes to reduce maternal deaths, which is more than five times above the 2030 SDG target of fewer than 70 maternal deaths per 100 000 live births. Measures include ensuring women access to skilled birth attendants. Credit: Ernest Ankomah/IPS by Francis Kokutse (accra) Tuesday,…

War, Famine, Disease, Disasters 2022 a Year Staring at Apocalypse — Global Issues

War, Famine, Disease, Disasters 2022 a Year Staring at Apocalypse — Global Issues

Opinion by Farhana Haque Rahman (toronto, canada) Friday, December 23, 2022 Inter Press Service TORONTO, Canada, Dec 23 (IPS) – A year that started with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and is ending with famine in Africa, while still spreading death and misery through an enduring pandemic and a deteriorating climate crisis…

New Political Agreement Finally Tackles Venezuela’s Social Crisis — Global Issues

New Political Agreement Finally Tackles Venezuela’s Social Crisis — Global Issues

The World Food Program has been active in Venezuela since last year, delivering bags of food to families of schoolchildren in some poor areas, such as remote areas accessed by river in the Arismedi municipality, in the southwestern plains state of Barinas. CREDIT: Gabriel Gómez/WFP by Humberto Marquez (caracas) Thursday, December…

UN Assessed Contributions Needed to Generate Core Funding for Climate Loss & Damage — Global Issues

UN Assessed Contributions Needed to Generate Core Funding for Climate Loss & Damage — Global Issues

After days of intense negotiations in Sharm el-Sheikh, countries at the latest UN Climate Change Conference, COP27, reached agreement on an outcome that established a funding mechanism to compensate vulnerable nations for ‘loss and damage’ from climate-induced disasters. 20 November 2022 Credit: United Nations Opinion by Inge Kaul (berlin) Tuesday, November…