Selimatha Salifu, a former child labourer from Ghana, is now a teacher working with children and encouraging them to continue...
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Education Cannot Wait (ECW) Director Yasmine Sherif speaks to crisis-affected children in Burkina Faso. ECW has launched a multi-year programme...
Credit: Unsplash /Melanie Wasser. Opinion by Ifeanyi Nsofor (abuja)Friday, January 22, 2021Inter Press ServiceABUJA, Jan 22 (IPS) - Dealing with COVID-19-related...
Opinion by Yasmine Sherif (new york)Saturday, January 23, 2021Inter Press ServiceNEW YORK, Jan 23 (IPS) - Looking back upon 2020, we...
Likuangole in Pibor County, one of the counties that have been hardest hit in the past years due to relentless...
by Stephen LeahyFriday, January 22, 2021Inter Press ServiceCancels Canadian Tar Sands Pipeline Keystone XLJan 22 (IPS) - I wasn’t going...
Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs, briefs the members of the UN Security Council. Iran and US are both accused...
Joe Biden takes the oath of office as the 46th President of the United States. Credit: Twitter.Opinion by Joaquin Roy (miami)Thursday,...
Opinion by Anis Chowdhury (sydney)Thursday, January 21, 2021Inter Press ServiceSYDNEY, Jan 21 (IPS) - Impeachment or no impeachment, Trump is out...
A man walks by a storm drain piled high with plastic bottles and other garbage in Kingston, Jamaica. Credit: Kate...
Siddharth Chatterjee. Credit: Newton KanhemaOpinion by Siddharth Chatterjee (nairobi, kenya)Wednesday, January 20, 2021Inter Press ServiceNAIROBI, Kenya, Jan 20 (IPS) - Siddharth...
The first two COVID-19 vaccines authorised in Europe and the United States – made by Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna – aren’t...
Humanitarians seek $1.3 billion to help millions in war-weary Afghanistan. Homes for internally displaced persons (IDP) in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan....
Opinion by Mandeep Tiwana (new york)Tuesday, January 19, 2021Inter Press ServiceNEW YORK, Jan 19 (IPS) - Two events generated significant interest...
Working as a journalist in Zimbabwe has been particularly hazardous for investigative journalists in a country that makes regular appearances...
Opinion by Jomo Kwame Sundaram (kuala lumpur, malaysia)Tuesday, January 19, 2021Inter Press ServiceKUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Jan 19 (IPS) - Covid-19 infection...
Can mobile money be categorized as digital money? IOM helped Mohammed Ahmed to set up a shop in Omduram market,...
A TB patient at the Srinagar-based Chest Diseases Hospital in the Indian state of Kashmir. Credit: Athar Parvaiz/IPSFriday, January 15,...
International Year of Volunteers: A volunteer ombudsman in Peru helps a local woman with her problem, 2001. Credit: UN Photoby...
A Chinese backed solar plant in Cafayate, northern Argentina. Such projects would be given the green light by regulators under...
