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Burkina Faso’s Cancelled Democracy
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, August 7 (IPS) - Burkina Faso’s charismatic young military leader, army captain Ibrahim Traoré, has stopped pretending. In April, he declared that people should ‘forget about the question of democracy’ because ‘democracy isn’t for us’. When Traoré seized power in September 2022, ousting a leader who’d staged a coup earlier that year, he promised elections by June 2024. The junta broke that pledge, pushing any transition back to 2029. Now Traoré has confirmed he has no intention of restoring democracy. Instead, Burkina Faso’s military junta is tightening its repression, while working with neighbouring states to internationalise its dangerously undemocratic model.
The World’s Aid Workers Must Be Protected
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, August 7 (IPS) - This summer, an ambush on a marked humanitarian convoy in Duk County, South Sudan, left 17 dead and five injured. While the UN called for an immediate investigation, history suggests the victims’ families will wait indefinitely for answers.
Food prices edged up in July amid heatwaves and energy price hikes
- UN News
The cost of key foods edged up last month as searing heatwaves and ongoing geopolitical uncertainty impacted energy prices around the world.
US Arms Stockpiles Hit by Iran War
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, August 7 (IPS) - The highly- unpredictable five-month-old US-Iran war has been plagued by on-again, off-again peace agreements — with such monotonous regularity — the conflict seems never ending. But according to several news reports, the US faces a new threat — it may soon run out of key weapons systems.
The Year of Pastoralists Must Be More Than Symbolic
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, August 6 (IPS) - This is supposed to be the year the world finally sees and recognizes pastoralists. The United Nations has designated 2026 as the International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists, bringing long-overdue attention to communities who have sustained some of the world’s most fragile and important landscapes for generations.
Rohingya Refugees Seeking Safe Haven in Bangladesh Hit by Fresh Disasters
- Inter Press Service
COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh, August 6 (IPS) - Abdu Rozork awoke suddenly to the sound of children screaming. Heavy monsoon rains had sent a landslide barrelling into the section of their bamboo shelter where the women and children were sleeping.
CHINA: ‘The Ethnic Unity Law Means There Is One Acceptable Way to Be Chinese’
- Inter Press Service
CIVICUS speaks about China’s recently implemented Ethnic Unity Law with Gulchehra Hoja, a correspondent for Reporters Without Borders and a Uyghur activist and journalist known for her reporting on human rights abuses against Uyghur people in China.
New Chickpea Variety to Drive Climate Resilience in Africa
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe , August 5 (IPS) - New chickpea seed research and production have become the new frontier of climate resilience in southern Africa as farmers battle failing cereal production.
Green transition: Pay the Least, Benefit the Most
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, August 5 (IPS) - Inaction and maintaining the status quo of fossil fuel dependence carry significant costs. The recent closure of the Strait of Hormuz, for instance, caused enormous losses to the global economy, with many Asia-Pacific countries bearing disproportionately larger adverse impacts. Had these economies had a more diversified energy mix, they would have benefited from such resilience under current circumstances.
After Restoring Stability, Argentina Needs to Turn Hard-Won Gains into Lasting Prosperity
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, August 4 (IPS) - My first meeting in Buenos Aires began with an unexpected gift. Economy Minister Luis Caputo presented me with an Argentine national team jersey bearing my name and the number 10—Lionel Messi’s iconic number.
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