By Devendra Kamarajan ADDIS ABABA (IDN) – The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) at its 60th anniversary celebrations in Addis Ababa has launched the Africa Poverty Clock, a customized version of the world poverty clock developed by World Data Lab, aimed at monitoring progress against extreme poverty, an aspiration of the United Nations’ […]
Providing New Bamboo Shelters in Bangladesh Refugee Camps
By UN Migration COX’S BAZAR (IDN-INPS) – Work has begun on one of the largest bamboo treatment plants ever installed in an emergency response, as IOM experts tackle a tiny insect that is devastating structures in the world’s biggest refugee settlement. An infestation of “boring beetles” means the bamboo in almost every shelter in the […]
Migration Is a Great Opportunity to Africa and Host Countries
By Caroline Mwanga NEW YORK (IDN) – Contrary to the widespread view coloured by the too-common images of young African migrants crossing the Mediterranean, migration in Africa is dominated by Africans moving within Africa, says Ashraf El Nour, the director of the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Office to the UN in New York. They […]
Who’s Deceiving Whom? Open Source North Korea Under The Microscope
NYT Coverage of Think-Tank Report Risks Credibility of Open-Source Research on North Korea Viewpoint by Joshua H. Pollack The writer is a senior research associate at the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey and editor of the Nonproliferation Review. This article first appeared on NKNews.Org on December 11, 2018. NEW YORK | MONTEREY (IDN-INPS) […]
New Report Warns of the Perils of Scientific Collaborations with North Korea
Partner Countries Include China, USA, Australia and Germany By Ramesh Jaura NEW YORK (IDN) – Direct collaboration between North Korean and foreign scientists including those from China, Australia, the United States, Germany, and Romania, is playing “an expanding role” in the regime’s pursuit of technological advancement, a new study has found. Published on December 19, […]
One Short Drone Flight Is A ‘Big Leap’ For Global Health
By Santo D. Banerjee NEW YORK | PORT VILA (IDN) – One month old Joy Nowai has become the world’s first child to be given a vaccine delivered commercially by drone in a remote island in the South Pacific country of Vanuatu, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) reported on December 18. The vaccine delivery […]
Democracy Has Hit An Iceberg
Viewpoint by Jonathan Power* LUND, Sweden (IDN-INPS) – In the Western world there is a constant debate about democracy. In the U.S. the Democrats charge quite correctly that the House’s constituencies are gerrymandered against them. Then there’s the insoluble issue of the Senate’s anti-democratic bias where its numbers are tilted against the Democrats by the […]
Africa’s Blue Economy Or a Global Ocean Grab by the Rich?
By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – Six counties in Kenya’s coastal region have been tagged for technical training in the blue economy – what some have called “the new frontier of the African Renaissance”. The goal is to enable young people to find jobs in the maritime industry. Kevit Desai, a […]
Of Cockroaches and Humans
Viewpoint by Roberto Savio The writer is publisher of Other News, a vehicle for “voices against the tide”, and founder of IPS–Inter Press Service News Agency. This article is being reproduced courtesy of Other News with the writer’s permission. He can be contacted at utopia@robertosavio.info and his articles and comments can be read on Facebook […]
Possibility of Peace in Afghanistan Was Never More Real Than It’s Now – UN Envoy
By J Nastranis NEW YORK (IDN) – The possibility of a negotiated end to the conflict in Afghanistan has never been more real in the past 17 years than it is now, according to the United Nations top envoy in Afghanistan. Tadamichi Yamamoto told the Security Council on December 17 he is encouraged by several […]