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ECW, Strategic Partners Bring Relief to Child Refugees Fleeing Ukrainian Conflict
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Apr 14 (IPS) - A brutal war now engulfs the young lives of an estimated 7.5 million children in Ukraine. Caught in the crossfire of bullets and missiles as the conflict escalates, children and young people have been plunged into a humanitarian crisis.
Climate Risk Insurance in Pacific Small Island Developing States: Possibilities, Challenges and Vulnerabilities
- Inter Press Service
CANBERRA, Australia, Apr 14 (IPS) - The World Bank lists Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Federated States of Micronesia, Nauru, Palau, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu and Vanuatu as Pacific Small Islands Developing States (PSIDS). Some listings also include the Cook Islands, Niue and Tokelau. In September 2019, these countries had a combined population of 2.3 million spread over hundreds of islands spread over an area roughly equivalent to 15% of the surface area of the earth. Of these, the most populated country – Fiji – has a population of 900,000. The World Bank’s World Development Indicators reveal that annual per capita GDP of these islands fell from $4,340 in 2018 to $3,768 in 2020. It has probably fallen further during the pandemic.
Global Impact of Ukraine War on Food, Energy & Finance Systems
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 14 (IPS) - Now, since the Russian Federation’s invasion of Ukraine, the world’s attention has been focused on the war’s terrifying levels of death, destruction and suffering.
Oil Crisis Offers Opportunities to the South and to the Green Energy Transition
- Inter Press Service
CARACAS, Apr 13 (IPS) - The oil and gas supply crisis unleashed by the Russian invasion of Ukraine represents new business opportunities for the oil-producing countries of the developing South, both traditional and emerging, and also for accelerating the global transition to green forms of energy.
Drugged Water: A New Global Pandemic Hiding in Plain Sight?
- Inter Press Service
MADRID, Apr 13 (IPS) - People around the world are unknowingly being exposed to water laced with antibiotics, which could spark the rise of drug-resistant pathogens and potentially fuel another global pandemic, warns a new report.
Unintended Pregnancy Rates Highest in Africa: a Look at the Complex Reasons
- Inter Press Service
Apr 13 (IPS) - The United Nations Population Fund recently released the 2022 State of World Population report. It highlights that almost half of all pregnancies between 2015 and 2019 were unintended. That amounts to roughly 121 million unintended pregnancies each year.
Food Systems Should Deliver Benefits in terms of Climate, Health and Society
- Inter Press Service
CAPETOWN, South Africa, Apr 13 (IPS) - Which country do you think best recognises the potential for changes to food systems to reduce emissions? Presumably a developed country, where agriculture is predominantly intensive, heavily subsidised and fuelled by fertilisers and irrigation, and where high consumption of animal proteins is the norm?
Kenya's Ticking Bomb as Unemployed Youth Lured into Traffickers' Dens
- Inter Press Service
Nairobi, Kenya, Apr 13 (IPS) - Ahmed Bakari’s ill-fated journey to ‘greener pastures’ started with a social media private message from a stranger back in 2017. The message said an international NGO was recruiting teachers and translators to work in Somalia.
Eastern Africa: Millions displaced, amid growing hunger, ‘unprecedented needs’
- UN News
Millions of displaced families across eastern Africa will fall deeper into hunger as food rations dwindle due to humanitarian resources being stretched to the limit as the world grapples with a toxic cocktail of conflict, climate shocks, and COVID-19, UN humanitarians warned on Wednesday.
Africa Commits to Green Recovery from COVID-19 Amid Daunting Challenges
- Inter Press Service
KIGALI, Apr 12 (IPS) - Climate change activist Mithika Mwenda, the Executive Director of the Pan African Climate Justice Alliance (PACJA), is not reluctant to engage African governments to do what’s necessary to commit to post-COVID-19 green growth strategies.
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