Opinion by Martin Griffith, Gilles Michaud (united nations) Monday, August 21, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Aug 21 (IPS) – This World Humanitarian Day on 19 August, we marked 20 years since 22 of our colleagues were killed and more than 100 injured when a suicide bomber detonated a truck…
Opinion by Alon Ben-Meir (new york) Friday, August 18, 2023 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Aug 18 (IPS) – The prospect of normalization of relations between Israel and Saudi Arabia will have enormous implications on Israel and the entire region. Since it will certainly take a personal sacrifice to put Israel’s…
Credit: United Nations Opinion by Thalif Deen (united nations) Thursday, August 17, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Aug 17 (IPS) – The artificial intelligence (AI) platform ChatGPT, whose negative consequences include misinformation, is facing new charges of political bias. According to a study by the University of East Anglia (UEA),…
A South Sudanese soldier carries a machine gun. Credit: punghi/ Shutterstock Opinion by Samuel Kofi Tetteh Baah, Christoph Lakner (washington dc) Thursday, August 17, 2023 Inter Press Service WASHINGTON DC, Aug 17 (IPS) – In 1990, about half of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and two-thirds in East…
Opinion by Sophie Meiners (berlin) Wednesday, August 16, 2023 Inter Press Service BERLIN, Aug 16 (IPS) – Reintegration assistance for migrants returning to their countries of origin is becoming increasingly salient. Germany and the EU cooperate closely with countries of origin to support local reintegration. Here, assistance goes beyond purely monetary…
The inauguration of the Nineteenth ordinary session of the African Ministerial Conference on the Environment (#AMCEN), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Credit: Richard Munang, UNEP Opinion by Elizabeth Maruma Mrema (nairobi, kenya) Tuesday, August 15, 2023 Inter Press Service NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 15 (IPS) – There has never been a time in…
Opinion by Leon Usigbe (abuja, nigeria) Monday, August 14, 2023 Inter Press Service ABUJA, Nigeria, Aug 14 (IPS) – Wisdom Ajah, an 18-year-old senior secondary school graduate living in Karshi, a satellite town in Nigeria’s Federal Capital Territory, dreams of a university education that will secure him a good job after…
Credit: UNICEF Sujan Opinion by Robert Jenkins – Lauren Rumble – Verena Knaus (united nations) Friday, August 11, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 (IPS) – Did you know that the power of computers has been doubling roughly every two years since the 1960s? Every day it seems there’s…
Opinion by Thalif Deen (united nations) Friday, August 11, 2023 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Aug 11 (IPS) – Going back to the 16th century and continuing through the late 1960s, France was described as the world’s second largest colonial power—just behind the British Empire. As the old saying goes: The…
A Security Council meeting in progress. Credit: United Nations Opinion by Tim Murithi (cape town, south africa) Thursday, August 10, 2023 Inter Press Service CAPE TOWN, South Africa, Aug 10 (IPS) – The world’s institutions are ill-prepared and poorly designed to effectively address global challenges such as major power conflicts, pandemics,…
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