Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, Director-General of the World Health Organization, standing with Yohei Sasakawa, WHO Goodwill Ambassador for Leprosy Elimination, at the 75th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland in May 2022. Sasakawa was honored at the Global Health Leaders Awards. By Joyce ChimbiNairobi, Jun 7 2022 (IPS) When Yohei Sasakawa […]

Alex Leiva, holding his baby girl, uses the water he managed to collect in barrels at 4:00 a.m., the only time the service is provided in Lotificación Praderas, in the canton of Cabañas, on the outskirts of the municipality of Apopa, north of the Salvadoran capital. The families of this […]

Countries: Afghanistan, Angola, Benin, Cabo Verde, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Guinea, Haiti, Lebanon, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan, Sri Lanka, Syrian Arab Republic, Ukraine, World, Yemen, Zimbabwe Sources: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, World Food Programme Afghanistan and Somalia are new entries. These all […]

Country: Burkina Faso Source: International Federation of Red Cross And Red Crescent Societies More than 3.4 million people are food insecure due to armed conflict and inter-communal violence, leading to the desertion of arable land and the decline in cereal production.

Fuzzy boundaries that lead to costly and incomplete enforcement and overlapping land and property laws lend common lands to exploitation. | Picture Courtesy: Foundation for Ecological Security (FES) By External SourceANAND, India, Jun 3 2022 (IPS) Common lands are natural resources that are used collectively by a community, such as […]