News headlines for “Sustainable Development”, page 69
Africa’s Industrial Future is Within Reach: What we Need now is Intentional Investment
- Inter Press Service

VIENNA, Austria, December 8 (IPS) - Africa enters 2025 at a pivotal moment in its development. The ambition to transform the continent’s economies through sustainable industrialization, regional integration, and innovation is clearer than ever, and is picking up pace. The foundations are being laid. Industrial strategies are expanding, regional integration is progressing, infrastructure projects are advancing, and a young, dynamic private sector powers local economies.
Syria at a crossroads: UN warns fragile transition needs global support
- UN News

A year after the fall of the Assad regime opened the door to political and judicial reform, Syria’s future is still precarious.
Sudan: UN chief condemns deadly strikes on children's nursery, hospital
- UN News

As Sudan’s civil war intensified on Monday, top UN officials condemned the killing of dozens of children in drone strikes in South Kordofan state – and the targeting of first responders trying to help the wounded.
From ruins to rebuilding: Three Jamaican mothers face the future after hurricane
- UN News

Three women in Jamaica whose lives were upended by the destructive force of a hurricane which battered the Caribbean island are looking to rebuild their future
UNGA’s Long-Drawn Revitalization Efforts Need a Meaningful Outcome, not Another Repetitive Regularity of an Omnibus of Redundancy
- Inter Press Service

NEW YORK, December 5 (IPS) - From its inception, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has been engaged in improving its working methods, mindful of, as early as in 1949, “… the increasing length of General Assembly sessions, and of the growing tendency towards protracted debates”.
In Zimbabwe, School Children Are Turning Waste Into Renewable Energy-Powered Lanterns
- Inter Press Service

SEKE, Zimbabwe, December 5 (IPS) - When going home after school, Monica Ben not only takes with her a pen and exercise books but also a lantern to light the dark room and completes her daily homework in Mashonaland East province.
Any Resumption of US Tests May Trigger Threats from Other Nuclear Powers
- Inter Press Service

UNITED NATIONS, December 5 (IPS) - President Trump’s recent announcement to resume nuclear testing rekindles nightmares of a bygone era where military personnel and civilians were exposed to devastating radioactive fallouts.
A fragile peace, a harsh winter: Gaza’s families struggle to rebuild
- UN News

Nearly two months after the latest ceasefire in the Gaza Strip on 10 October, a fragile calm has brought much-needed relief to families who have endured unimaginable suffering and repeated displacement.
Communities struggle to rebuild following Pakistan’s worst floods
- UN News

Extreme weather has battered Pakistan in recent months, leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Lives have been lost, livelihoods destroyed, and millions displaced.
Syria: Effort to buttress human rights since Assad’s fall, ‘only the beginning of what needs to be done’
- UN News

Summary executions and other violations continue in Syria nearly a year after the fall of the Assad regime, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Friday.

