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UN Secretary-General António Guterres (left and on screen) addresses the high-level Humanitarian Conference for the People of Sudan, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Credit: UN Photo/Addis Ababa by Oritro Karim (united nations) Friday, February 21, 2025 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Feb 21 (IPS) – In the final quarter of 2024 ,there has been an escalation in the Sudanese civil war, with …

On 12 February 2023, UNA-UK launched Blue Smoke, a newsletter and website shining a light on senior UN appointments and elections. Opinion by Mavic Cabrera Balleza – Ben Donaldson – Anne Marie Goetz (new york) Friday, February 21, 2025 Inter Press Service NEW YORK, Feb 21 (IPS) – The selection of the next UN Secretary-General (UNSG) will be a pivotal moment …

Harry Dempsey / Financial Times: Japanese officials and executives warn that China’s export curbs on gallium, germanium, and other chip raw materials threaten global electronics supply chains  —  Officials and executives say gallium rules will upset supply chains for chips and vehicle batteries

Scientists must step up and speak up. We cannot be silent when science is being eroded and the institutions that fund science are being dismantled, and emerging and early career researchers being terminated. Credit: Bigstock Opinion by Esther Ngumbi (urbana, illinois, us) Thursday, February 20, 2025 Inter Press Service URBANA, Illinois, US, Feb 20 (IPS) – Scientists like me across the …

Chihwa Chadambuka belongs to the LGBTQ community, who have turned to climate-smart agriculture to change perceptions of the group. Credit: Farai Shawn Matiashe/IPS by Farai Shawn Matiashe (mutare, zimbabwe) Thursday, February 20, 2025 Inter Press Service MUTARE, Zimbabwe, Feb 20 (IPS) – Wrongfully accused of causing droughts, a group of LGBTQI people in Zimbabwe involved themselves in climate-smart agriculture and are …

by Oritro Karim (united nations) Thursday, February 20, 2025 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (IPS) – In the western world, numerous studies over the past two decades have shown that the rise of social media in popularity has been linked to negative mental health symptoms, especially among young people. Platforms such as Instagram, Facebook, X (formerly known as Twitter), …

Children in Gaza stand on debris from a destroyed building. February 2025. Credit: UN News by Thalif Deen (united nations) Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Inter Press Service UNITED NATIONS, Feb 19 (IPS) – President Trump—whose rash and ill-conceived proposals continue unabated—has threatened to “seize Gaza,” turn it into a “Riviera of the Middle East,” and move Palestinians to Egypt and Jordan, …

The United States has designated eight Latin American criminal and drug-trafficking groups as “global terrorist organisations” amid escalating rhetoric from President Donald Trump. In a Federal Register notice filed on Wednesday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said, without offering details, that the groups have committed or pose a risk of committing “acts of terrorism that threaten the security of United …

Opinion by Danny Bradlow (pretoria, south africa) Wednesday, February 19, 2025 Inter Press Service PRETORIA, South Africa, Feb 19 (IPS) – Daniel D. Bradlow is Professor/Senior Research Fellow, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria, South Africa.US president Donald Trump’s recent actions seem designed to reassert American power and demonstrate that it is still the dominant global power and …

The U.S. efforts to pressure Ukraine to accept significant territorial losses to Russia in exchange for ending the war are expected to increase. Photo: Oleksandr Ratushniak / UNDP Ukraine Opinion by Vyacheslav Likhachev (kyiv) Tuesday, February 18, 2025 Inter Press Service Vyacheslav Likhachev, based in Kyiv, is an expert at the Center for Civil Liberties, a human rights organization that won …