A protest in front of the Quetta Press Club against repression by the Pakistani state. Credit: Karlos Zurutuza / IPS by Karlos Zurutuza (hamburg, germany) Friday, April 07, 2023 Inter Press Service HAMBURG, Germany, Apr 07 (IPS) – Geologists have described the region as the most similar to Mars on Earth….
Patients outside the Mycetoma Research Center in Sudan. Credit: DNDi by Geoffrey Kamadi (nairobi) Friday, April 07, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Apr 07 (IPS) – The disease burden and distribution of mycetoma—a neglected tropical disease—are not very well understood. However, it is known to affect people in Sudan, Senegal, Mauritania,…
A nurse walks into a hospital ward in Janakpur in Dhanusha District in southern Nepal. Credit: UNICEF/Rupadhayay Opinion by Roopa Dhatt, Susannah Schaefer (washington dc / new york) Friday, April 07, 2023 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC / NEW YORK, Apr 07 (IPS) – As World Health Worker Week draws to…
Opinion by Ines M Pousadela (montevideo, uruguay) Friday, April 07, 2023 Inter Press Service MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Apr 07 (IPS) – The uncertainty that’s the hallmark of a democratic election was absent on 26 March, the day Cubans were summoned to appoint members of the National Assembly of People’s Power, the country’s…
Egypt plans to sell shares in 32 state-owned businesses, including three banks. Credit: Hisham Allam/IPS by Hisham Allam (cairo) Thursday, April 06, 2023 Inter Press Service Cairo, Apr 06 (IPS) – Egypt intends to sell shares in 32 state-owned businesses within a year, including three banks, two military-owned businesses, and numerous…
Opinion by Robert Jenkins (new york) Thursday, April 06, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Apr 06 (IPS) – With schools now reopened around the world, countries are called to take transformative action on education financing to recover and accelerate learning for all children, especially the poorest and most marginalized. Findings…
Opinion by Malik al-Abdeh, Lars Hauch (london) Wednesday, April 05, 2023 Inter Press Service LONDON, Apr 05 (IPS) – Europe’s current approach to facilitating refugee returns and containing new arrivals from Syria is based on wishful thinking. Europeans have come to terms with the fact that a political settlement for Syria’s…
The Abortion Dream Team (from left to right Natalia Broniarczyk, Justyna Wydrzynska, Kinga Jelinska) outside the Warsaw court after Wydrzynska’s conviction. Credit: Abortion Dream Team by Ed Holt (bratislava) Wednesday, April 05, 2023 Inter Press Service BRATISLAVA, Apr 05 (IPS) – “People want the abortion laws here liberalised. Society has changed;…
We’re spewing a torrent of waste and pollution that is affecting our environment, our economies, and our health, warns UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPS by Baher Kamal (madrid) Tuesday, April 04, 2023 Inter Press Service MADRID, Apr 04 (IPS) – Straight to the point: the current system of voracious…
Most vendor tables are empty in the large fresh produce market in Vanuatu’s capital, Port Vila, due to the widespread devastation of food gardens and crops by Cyclones Judy and Kevin in early March. Photo credit: Catherine Wilson/IPS by Catherine Wilson (port vila, vanuatu) Tuesday, April 04, 2023 Inter Press Service…
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