Latest Updates Around The World
A boy works along the coast near the village of Kiwengwa on Zanzibar. Credit: Kizito Makoye/IPS by Kizito Makoye (Kiwegwa, Tanzania) Monday March 2, 2026 Inter-Press Office KIWENGWA, Tanzania, Mar 2 (IPS) – As the tide falls on Zanzibar’s west coast, 13-year-old Asha* moves across the reef, her dress billowing in knee-deep water. She carries […]
Warmer weather due to climate change has consequences for coffee production. Credit: Delightin Dee/Unsplash by Rule the Boys (bulawayo, zimbabwe) Friday February 27, 2026 Inter-Press Office BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Feb 27 (IPS) – Your morning cup of coffee could soon become more expensive, thanks to climate change, putting pressure on production of the world’s most loved […]
Women farmers clear agricultural land in northern Bangladesh. Credit: Naimul Haq/IPS Opinion by Maximo Torero (Rome) Wednesday February 25, 2026 Inter-Press Office ROME, Feb 25 (IPS) – Agricultural land has been one of the most important sources of security for generations. Pearl S. Buck wrote about China almost a century ago The good earth“If you […]
The challenge for Africa lies not in a lack of ambition, but in ensuring that governance and accountability mechanisms are strong enough to translate commitments into results. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS Opinion by Françoise Uwumukiza Wednesday February 11, 2026 Inter-Press Office Africa has never lacked agricultural strategies. Since the launch of the Comprehensive Africa Agriculture Development […]
UN Secretary-General António Guterres addresses the 426th meeting of the Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People (CEIRPP). Credit: UN Photo/Evan Schneider by Oritro Karim (united nations) Wednesday February 11, 2026 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Feb 11 (IPS) – Since the ceasefire between Israel and Hamas last October, humanitarian conditions […]
Floods are rapidly emerging as a threat that endangers and undermines food security, health, infrastructure and economies in both the short and long term. Credit: Shutterstock Opinion by Esther Ngumbi (urbana, illinois, us) Friday February 6, 2026 Inter-Press Office URBANA, Illinois, USA, Feb 6 (IPS) – South Africa, Mozambiqueand Zimbabwe are currently experiencing severe flooding. […]
Two malnourished children receive nutritional supplements at a health center in Tawila, North Darfur, Sudan. Credit: UNICEF/Mohammed Jamal by Oritro Karim (united nations) Thursday January 8, 2026 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Jan 8 (IPS) – As Sudan approaches 1,000 days of civil war, there was a brutal escalation of violence in late December and early […]
Samuel Ndungu works on his farm in Githunguri, Kenya. Credit: Farai Shawn Matiashe/IPS by Farai Shawn Matiashe (Githunguri, Kenya) Wednesday December 24, 2025 Inter-Press Office GITHUNGURI, Kenya, Dec 24 (IPS) – For the past two years, Samuel Ndungu, a smallholder farmer, has been growing and supplying organic food to the local market in Githunguri, just […]
In the Central Gaza Strip, State of Palestine, four-year-old Abd Al Kareem eats from a pouch of lipid-based nutritional supplements (LNS) during a UNICEF survey on malnutrition. Credit: UNICEF/Rawan Eleyan by Oritro Karim (united nations) Tuesday December 23, 2025 Inter-Press Office UNITED NATIONS, Dec 23 (IPS) – Despite notable improvements in humanitarian conditions in the […]
from CIVICUS Friday December 19, 2025 Inter-Press Office CIVICUS discusses climate displacement and Tuvalu’s future with Kiali Molu, a former official at Tuvalu’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and currently a PhD candidate at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji and the University of Bergen in Norway. His research focuses on state sovereignty and […]
