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Credit: Isabel Infantes/Reuters via Gallo Images Opinion by Andrew Firmin (London) Tuesday December 30, 2025 Inter-Press Office LONDON, Dec 30 (IPS) – Satellite images showing corpses piled high in El Fasher, North Darfur, awaiting mass burial or cremation as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia tries to hide the extent of his crimes. Up to […]
The war, which broke out in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has destroyed civilian infrastructure, collapsed basic services and caused one of the world’s largest displacement crises. A nutritional research A survey this month in the town of Um Baru in the Sudanese state of […]
The surge comes against the backdrop of an escalating conflict in eastern DRC, where renewed fighting has caused mass displacement, eroded protection systems and deepened an already dire humanitarian crisis, putting children at increased risk of abuse, exploitation and lasting trauma. UNICEF has called repeatedly for an immediate cessation of hostilities and unhindered humanitarian access, […]
Credit: Brenton Geach/Gallo Images Opinion by inés m. pousadela (Montevideo, Uruguay) Saturday December 27, 2025 Inter-Press Office MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Dec 27 (IPS) – Hours before world leaders gathered in Johannesburg for the 2025 G20 summit in November, hundreds of South African women in black spent 15 minutes in a city park – one for every […]
The call follows a peace initiative presented by Sudan’s transitional prime minister at a meeting Security Council meeting earlier this week. AND Secretary General António Guterres “takes note of the peace initiative,” its spokesperson said on Friday, emphasizing that “pursuing sustainable and inclusive peace is essential as the conflict enters a new year.” He called […]
Resolution 2808 (2025) extends the mandate of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the DRC (MONUSCO) until December 20, 2026, while maintaining an authorized troop ceiling of 11,500 military personnel, 600 military observers and staff officers, 443 police personnel and 1,270 formed police unit personnel. According to the resolution, the core area of MONUSCO operations […]
Sahrawi refugees walk near the Awserd refugee camp in Algeria’s Tindouf province. Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider by Umar Manzoor Shah (Srinagar, India) Tuesday December 16, 2025 Inter-Press Office SRINAGAR, India, Dec 16 (IPS) – The global refugee system is entering a period of great tension. The delivery of protection and aid is undergoing a transformation […]
Bill Gates, the co-founder of Microsoft, has reinvented himself as an uncanny advocate for climate alarmism and other left-wing causes, raising concerns about the projected increase in preventable infant deaths and blaming them for cuts in global healthcare funding by the Trump administration. In one recent interview Along with Politico, Bill Gates claimed that the […]
Health workers accompany pregnant and lactating mothers during an outreach visit, supported by UNFPA, in Loima sub-region. Credit: UNFPA/Luis Tato Opinion By James Nikal, Margaret Lubale and Anne-Beatricie Khara (Nairobi, Kenya) Friday December 12, 2025 Inter-Press Office NAIROBI, Kenya, Dec 12 (IPS) – For working women across Kenya, reaching a health facility, finding trained health […]
Amina Mohamed and Hassan Vuai Saburi, radio presenters for Zanzibar’s Kati Radio Station, present a morning program to inform communities about the importance of protecting the coastal environment. Credit: Kizito Makoye/IPS by Kizito Makoye (Dar es Salaam, Tanzania) Wednesday December 10, 2025 Inter-Press Office DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Dec 10 (IPS) – At dawn in […]
