Credit: UNICEF/Noorani Opinion by Tsitsi Matekaire, Tara Carey (london) Monday, August 01, 2022 Inter Press Service LONDON, Aug 01 (IPS) – It is often those least responsible for causing climate change that suffer the most from the impacts. And such is the case with women and girls in Malawi – one…
Sir Fazle Hasan Abed, the founder of BRAC and “one of the unsung heroes of modern times,” according to Nicholas Kristof of The New York Times, authorized his own biography before dying of brain cancer in 2019. Author Scott MacMillan wrote Hope Over Fate based on hundreds of hours of…
Heat waves increase the risks of crop failures, threatening food security for billions of people. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS Opinion by Esther Ngumbi (urbana, illinois, usa) Friday, July 29, 2022 Inter Press Service URBANA, Illinois, USA, Jul 29 (IPS) – Across the U.S., and around the world, particularly Europe, heat records are…
Credit: EBRD Opinion by Vanora Bennett (london) Friday, July 29, 2022 Inter Press Service LONDON, Jul 29 (IPS) – Until Russia went to war on Ukraine in February, Ukraine was known as the “breadbasket of Europe”. One of the largest grain exporters in the world, it provided about 10 per cent…
The Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Martin Griffiths, speaks with internally displaced people in North East Nigeria. January 2022. Credit: UNOCHA/Christina Powell Opinion by Matthias Schmale (abuja, nigeria) Thursday, July 28, 2022 Inter Press Service ABUJA, Nigeria, Jul 28 (IPS) – Today in north-east Nigeria, millions of people…
Opinion by Nadeem Qureshi (karachi, pakistan) Wednesday, July 27, 2022 Inter Press Service KARACHI, Pakistan, Jul 27 (IPS) – In recent days, as Pakistan’s economic woes have intensified, a veritable cottage industry has developed to suggest ways of putting the country back on track. The latest entrant in this field is…
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram, Anis Chowdhury (sydney and kuala lumpur) Tuesday, July 26, 2022 Inter Press Service SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 26 (IPS) – Like so many others, Africans have long been misled. Alleged progress under imperialism has long been used to legitimize exploitation. Meanwhile, Western colonial powers have…
Opinion by Irene Wabiwa Betoko (kinshasa) Tuesday, July 26, 2022 Inter Press Service KINSHASA, Jul 26 (IPS) – The writer is the International Project Leader for the Congo Basin Forest, Greenpeace AfricaFrom the fall-out of the pandemic to the interlocking cost of living and energy security crises currently gripping the world,…
A child eating WFP high-energy biscuits as part of WFP’s nutrition assistance in Batangafo town, northern Central African Republic. Credit: WFP/Bruno Djoyo Opinion by Alexander Muller – Adam Prakash – Elena Lazutkaite (berlin / terni, italy) Monday, July 25, 2022 Inter Press Service BERLIN / TERNI, Italy, Jul 25 (IPS) –…
Benoit Thierry Opinion by Benoit Thierry (dakar, senegal) Monday, July 25, 2022 Inter Press Service DAKAR, Senegal, Jul 25 (IPS) – Benoit Thierry, is Sahel Office Director of International Fund for Agriculture Development, DakarThe current Ukraine-Russia conflict is dominating the global media to the point of overshadowing longer protracted crisis that…
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