Analysts have questioned what happened to the youth vote in Nigeria. Credit: Commonwealth Observer Group, Nigeria by Abdullahi Jimoh (abuja) Thursday, June 29, 2023 Inter Press Service ABUJA, Jun 29 (IPS) – As Nigeria’s newly-elected president Bola Tinabu seems to be making his mark by undoing many of his predecessor’s policies…
Ayan (25) with her daughter Mushtaq (15 months) in the waiting area of the WFP funded Kabasa MAM Health Center. Credit: WFP/Samantha Reinders. by Paul Virgo (rome) Wednesday, June 28, 2023 Inter Press Service ROME, Jun 28 (IPS) – Four months pregnant, Ayan was close to dying of starvation when she…
Zimbabwean women’s informal savings clubs have been hit by high inflation and the low value of the country’s currency. Credit: Ignatius Banda/IPS by Ignatius Banda (bulawayo) Wednesday, June 28, 2023 Inter Press Service BULAWAYO, Jun 28 (IPS) – For years, self-employed and unemployed women in Zimbabwe formed neighbourhood “clubs” where they…
Opinion by Azza Karam (new york) Wednesday, June 28, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Jun 28 (IPS) – For the last 30 odd years, I have maintained that religions matter. I noted the reasons for why they matter, and always listed how they matter —as social service providers, as first…
In the United States and Canada, overdose deaths, predominantly driven by an epidemic of the non-medical use of fentanyl, continue to break records. Credit: Shutterstock. by Baher Kamal (madrid) Tuesday, June 27, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Jun 27 (IPS) – How come that in a world where technology is -or…
Opinion by Norman Solomon (san francisco, usa) Tuesday, June 27, 2023 Inter Press Service SAN FRANCISCO, USA, Jun 27 (IPS) – A recent Justice Department report concluded that “systemic” racial bias in the Minneapolis Police Department “made what happened to George Floyd possible.” During the three years since a white police…
With the monsoon refugees in the cramped camps in Cox’s Bazar are expected to be impacted by an increase of dengue, which last year accounted for 1,283 cases in the Rohingya camps. Credit: Rafiqul Islam/IPS by Rafiqul Islam (dhaka) Tuesday, June 27, 2023 Inter Press Service DHAKA, Jun 27 (IPS) –…
Opinion by Marco Bitschnau (neuchatel, switzerland) Monday, June 26, 2023 Inter Press Service NEUCHATEL, Switzerland, Jun 26 (IPS) – It’s been seven months since Florida Governor Ron DeSantis celebrated a brilliant re-election victory in the midst of an otherwise mixed Republican midterm performance. He had come in with nearly 20 per…
Perla Venegas is one of 1444 female bus drivers in the surface public transport network in Santiago, Chile, which aims at gender inclusion and offers job stability and shift flexibility compatible with family life. CREDIT: Orlando Milesi / IPS by Orlando Milesi (santiago) Monday, June 26, 2023 Inter Press Service SANTIAGO,…
by Thalif Deen (united nations) Monday, June 26, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Jun 26 (IPS) – When the United Nations commemorated ‘International Day of Women in Diplomacy’ last week, the President of the General Assembly (PGA) Csaba K?rösi rightly pointed out the woeful absence of women to hold that…
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