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Financing Africa’s Digital Future: Institutions Push for Smarter, Coordinated Funding
- Inter Press Service
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, July 30 (IPS) - Africa’s digital revolution is gathering pace, but the financing needed to sustain it remains uneven, fragmented, and often out of reach.
The climate pattern putting millions at risk: El Niño explained
- UN News
El Niño is putting millions of lives at risk in eastern and southern Africa but the UN is ensuring that communities are better prepared to deal with its impact.
Fear grows as freedoms shrink in Uganda
- UN News
Uganda is experiencing a growing climate of fear as increasing restrictions on fundamental freedoms leave opposition supporters, journalists, human rights defenders and civil society groups at heightened risk of abuse, according to the UN Human Rights Office (OHCHR).
Middle East crisis: Humanitarian fallout ‘worsening by the day’
- UN News
The humanitarian toll is mounting as fighting continues in the Middle East beyond strikes and counterstrikes between the US and Iran, the UN aid coordination office OCHA warned on Thursday, with civilians increasingly at risk and essential infrastructure disrupted in several countries across the region.
Wildfires: Prevention is the best defence, UN says
- UN News
The wildfires burning across Europe and North America highlight the urgent need for action now – as climate change, land-use pressures and human activity make severe fires more likely in the future.
Attacks ‘getting worse’: Deadly Russian strikes hit Ukrainian cities
- UN News
Aid workers and first responders raced to help people across Ukraine after a wave of deadly Russian missile and drone strikes overnight as concerns mounted over military activity near nuclear power plants on Thursday.
Returning Afghans face growing risk of trafficking as crises deepen
- UN News
Afghans returning from neighbouring countries are facing growing risks of human trafficking and exploitation as overlapping humanitarian and economic crises leave many struggling to survive, the UN warned on Thursday.
Preparing Agriculture for a New Era of Extreme Weather
- Inter Press Service
URBANA, Illinois, US, July 29 (IPS) - Recently, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations put out an alert, warning countries around the world about an impending new El Niño phase that is expected to significantly increase the likelihood of drought, heat waves, storms, and flooding and pose major risks to agriculture across multiple regions.
A New Wave of “Communist” Hysteria is Threatening to Spread Across US Politics
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, July 29 (IPS) - Senator Joseph R. McCarthy (Republican of Kansas) rose to public attention in the 1950s with his allegations that hundreds of “Communists” had infiltrated the State Department and other federal agencies.
The United Nations in a Time of Opportunity & Uncertainty: a Time to Choose
- Inter Press Service
DELHI, India, July 29 (IPS) - On 15 September 1953, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit of India was elected the eighth president of the UN General Assembly — the first woman to hold the UN’s second-highest position. Since then, only four women have followed her, most recently the current president, Annalena Baerbock. Since its founding, the UN has had nine Secretaries-General. All men. Now, 81 years after the UN’s founding, we have a historic opportunity to correct that record. It is time to entrust the UN leadership to a woman of the Global South who shapes a more inclusive, effective and forward-looking UN.
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