Countries: Chad, Sudan Source: UN High Commissioner for Refugees The intercommunal clashes, which started on 15 January in West Darfur and spread to South Darfur, have killed 250 people – including three humanitarian workers – and displaced more than 100,000.

Jan 14, 2021 In the News Malawi Admarc folds hands as maize prices soar (Daily Times) Markets Daily Times (Malawi) published an article on the December Monthly Maize Report from IFPRI2020 report by IFPRI-Malawi showed that food prices rose by six percent from the previous month. The report indicated that, by the end of December, […]

On 2 December 2020, the Office of Inspector General (OIG) in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (HHS) issued a long-awaited final rule (the Final Rule or Rule).1 The Final Rule adds multiple new safe harbors and revises several existing safe harbors under the federal Anti-Kickback Statute (AKS) as […]

Jan 9, 2021 In the News India Need to think beyond minimum support prices (Financial Express) Governance Financial Express published an op-ed by former Director of the South Asia Region PK Joshi and AK Padhee. The authors write that the three new farm laws, since their enactment, have been a subject of intense debate […]

Countries: Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, World Source: Human Rights Watch After a fire destroyed the temporary emergency camp in northwest Bosnia on December 23, 2020, hundreds are housed in tents that do not meet basic humane housing conditions, it said.

Key pollinators like bees and insects have experienced dramatic declines in their numbers, yet their plight receive precious little attention in the news media, scientists say. A team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in the United States did a search of nearly 25 million news items from […]