Photo: Pexels/Frans van Heerden The arduous task of cleaning up from catastrophic flooding is underway across the Northeast after storms stretched the region’s flood control systems nearly to the breaking point. As rising global temperatures make extreme storms more common, the nation’s dams and reservoirs – crucial to keeping communities dry – are being […]

Credit: Prakash Mathema/AFP via Getty Images By Andrew FirminLONDON, Jul 28 2023 (IPS) Nepal is the latest country to join the global wave of marriage equality. On 28 June, its Supreme Court ruled that the government must immediately offer temporary registration of same-sex marriages, pending a change in the law. […]

Country: Ukraine Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations While immediate losses of crop production have been relatively limited, the destruction of infrastructure carries long-term consequences, especially for irrigated agricultural production.

Country: South Sudan Sources: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Food Security Cluster, Protection Cluster, UN Children’s Fund, World Food Programme Children, who make up 40% of the population needing food security and livelihood support, are the most vulnerable and at heightened risk of negative coping mechanisms to […]

Credit: Albert González Farran, UNAMID By Mark J. WoodWASHINGTON DC, Jul 27 2023 (IPS) When war broke out in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, in April 2023, those of us who know the region well feared what would happen to the west, in Darfur. In 2003, former Sudanese President Omar […]