A cascade of crises endangers our world. Wars conducted without rules, governance devoid of democratic principles, surge in ...

As the devastating 11-month-old conflict in Gaza keeps escalating, with over 41,000 mostly civilian killings, and more than ...

A new report says African cities will record rapid urbanization in the next decade, creating a mixed bag of socio-economic ...

Overnight, hundreds of people in the rural community of Las Mangas, located in Granma province in eastern Cuba, realised ...

Hungarian-Swedish microbiologist George Klein, who in 1944 escaped from a train destined to Auschwitz, once wrote that his ...

Returning to Nigeria after five years, I was struck by the changes – both the challenges and the opportunities. To better understand these dynamics, I have been undertaking visits to states across ...

At most international forums, including the annual UN General Assembly high-level debate, Sierra Leonean President Julius ...

It was nine in the morning when the shell landed in front of nine-year-old Hella al-Abtah's house in the Yarmouk Palestinian refugee camp in Damascus. Hella survived the initial blast but was ...

Unpredictable weather patterns in the form of excessive or prolonged rainfall are wreaking havoc for farmers across Pakistan as sowing and harvesting periods are severely affected.

For Egypt’s commercial marine fishermen, making a living has never been more dangerous. Egyptian crews driven further afield in search of fish have faced pirate attacks, spent months in dingy foreign ...

It all happened on the very same day—4 April. That day, indigenous peoples were simultaneously characterised as fundamental allies in the world’s war on hunger and poverty, while being declared as ...

As the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, Ahmed Al-Tayeb said on October 20: “As a Muslim and being the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar, I declare before Almighty God that I disassociate myself, the rulings of the ...