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  1. Disparities in the Arab Region: Hunger Doubles, Indebtedness Triggers, Recovery Uneven

    - Inter Press Service

    MADRID, Jan 12 (IPS) - The panorama is bleak: hunger in the Arab region continues to rise, with more than 90% increase since 2000, while indebtedness is growing, and the economic recovery is tenuous and uneven.

  2. The Straw that Broke Kazakhstan's Back

    - Inter Press Service

    ALMATY, Kazakhstan, Jan 12 (IPS) - The most violent protests of the past 30 years have erupted across Kazakhstan — exposing decades of inequality, injustice, and corruption. The protests of an unprecedented scale have rocked cities across Kazakhstan for days, as the population grew increasingly dissatisfied with the country’s leadership.

  3. COVID-19 variants, rising debt, threaten global economic growth: World Bank

    - UN News

    Global growth will slow down over the next two years in the face of “fresh threats” from COVID-19 variants and rising inflation, debt and income inequality, the World Bank said on Tuesday in its latest report.

  4. China Opens Embassy in Nicaragua for First Time since 1990 after Taiwan Ties Cut

    - Inter Press Service

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    AUSTRALIA, Jan 10 (IPS) - For the first time since 1990, China has (re)opened an embassy in Managua, Nicaragua, less than a month after Nicaragua cut ties with Taiwan. The (re)opening of the embassy on January 1, 2022 comes amidst the backdrop of US-China tensions, particularly over trade and Taiwan, as well as worsening Cross-Straits relations.

  5. Clean Water, Decent Toilets, Hygiene Challenge for Southern African Community

    - Inter Press Service

    Blantyre, Malawi, Jan 10 (IPS) - The toilets in the maternity wing of Namatapa Health Centre in the populous Bangwe Township in Blantyre, Malawi’s commercial city, fell into disrepair a few years ago. So, pregnant women who come to deliver their babies and their guardians use two pit latrines.

  6. How Place of Birth Shapes Chances of Going to University

    - Inter Press Service

    Jan 10 (IPS) - Many newly independent African countries in the 1960s inherited regional and ethnic inequalities in formal educational attainment. These new states bound together sub-national regions of diverse ethnic and religious communities. The regions differed in their exposure to missionary activity – the main vector in the spread of formal western education in the colonial era.

  7. The Time to Protect Our Oceans is Now

    - Inter Press Service

    WASHINGTON DC, Jan 10 (IPS) - There is no other place in the world like Costa Rica’s Cocos Island National Park. The waters surrounding the island--covered with tropical forests--are a playground to countless shivers, or schools, of sharks, including hammerhead sharks, whitetip reef sharks and whale sharks.

  8. From the Field: Working with nature to transform lives

    - UN News

    So-called “nature-based solutions” are an important element in tackling the climate crisis, but they also play a major role in addressing other challenges, from food security, to health, and sustainable development.

  9. Underfunded and Deadly Tuberculosis Needs its Own Bill Gates

    - Inter Press Service

    BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jan 07 (IPS) - Global efforts to end tuberculosis (TB) are futile without dedicated investment in research into the debilitating disease that is killing 4000 people a day, Stop TB Partnership warns.

  10. Activism will be Key to Overcoming the Covid-19 Crisis

    - Inter Press Service

    ROME, Jan 07 (IPS) - As the Omicron surge overwhelms the world, it is clear to people everywhere that the actions which leaders so far have taken in response to the Covid-19 crisis have not been sufficient to overcome it.

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