Université Abdou Moumouni de Niamey students stage a protest in support of Russia and the coup plotters. Credit: Abdoulaye Hali Aboubacar By Promise EzeSOKOTO, NIGERIA, Aug 7 2023 (IPS) On July 26 2023 a man named Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane, flanked by soldiers with military fatigues, appeared on Niger’s national television […]
Read MoreCountry: Niger Sources: ACTED, Action contre la Faim France, CARE, Concern Worldwide, COOPI – Cooperazione Internazionale, Danish Refugee Council, Handicap International – Humanity & Inclusion, International NGO Safety Organisation, International Rescue Committee, Mercy Corps, Norwegian Refugee Council, Oxfam, Save the Children, Solidarités International, Welthungerhilfe, World Vision The combination of sanctions […]
Read MoreCountries: Central African Republic, Chad, South Sudan, Sudan Source: UN Children’s Fund Every day, children are being killed, injured, abducted, and seeing the schools, hospitals and the vital infrastructure and life-saving supplies they rely on damaged, destroyed or looted.
Read MoreGlobal law firm K&L Gates LLP has again been ranked among the very top law firms in Airfinance Journal’s 2023 Legal Survey, with the firm being recognized for the sixth year in a row as the most active law firm for structured lease transactions, as well as the second most […]
Read MoreLast month, the Indian government announced an abrupt ban on exporting non-basmati white rice, which raised fears of destabilizing rice supplies in certain parts of the world,” writes CNN in a story on India’s rice ban.
Read MoreCredit: Tang Chhin Sothy/AFP via Getty Images By Inés M. PousadelaMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Aug 4 2023 (IPS) The title shouldn’t fool you: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is one of the world’s longest-ruling autocrats. A political survivor, this former military commander had been bolted to his chair since 1985, presiding over […]
Read MoreCountries: Ethiopia, Sudan Source: UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Army worms have damaged more than 24,400 hectares of cropland across 34 woredas in Tigray, while Amhara region is responding to a new cholera outbreak with a limited number of partners and resources.
Read MorePhoto: Pexels/George Sesipris Amid news of lethal heatwaves across the Northern Hemisphere comes the daunting prospect of a climate disaster on an altogether grander scale. New findings published in Nature Communications suggest the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or Amoc, could collapse within the next few decades – maybe even within the next […]
Read MoreIf an online business thinks it is insulated from court proceedings by an arbitration clause in standard terms, the English Commercial Court decision in Payward Inc. v Chechetkin1 will give pause for thought, particularly where consumer rights are engaged. The English Court has refused to recognise a US arbitration award on […]
Read MorePhoto: Pexels/Vignesh Tigers are on the brink of extinction across Asia where only a century ago they reigned supreme as top predators. Then they numbered 100,000; now they are down to 5,000 or so. Their ranges, too, have diminished drastically over the decades, leaving them little room free from human […]
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