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THE United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recently declared that millions of citizens in the Horn of Africa face food shortages.
IN 2011, the South African government announced a plan to create a 9.6-gigawatt nuclear energy programme. The project, they argued, would allow South Africa to diversify its energy sector, move...
IWACU Press Group commemorates one year of the disappearance of its journalist, Jean Bigirimana, who has gone missing since 22 July 2016. No evidence of his death so far.
THE election of United States president Donald Trump was greeted with cautious pragmatism by a majority of African states, since he had failed to enunciate his Africa policy while campaigning.
THE Zika virus emerged in northeast Brazil in early 2015. By September the first cases of infants born with microcephaly had been reported in 8 of 26 Brazilian states.
OVER the past few months, much has been said by politicians and the media about reproductive rights issues, from comprehensive sexuality education, legalisation or decriminalisation of abortion...
THE heckling, booing and hurling of stones being witnessed in Kenya when politicians visit their opponents’ strongholds is a sure recipe for violence as political duels take their toll on the...
UNITED Nations human rights bodies and various institutions devoted to studying the human rights situation in North Korea are increasingly in difficulties to find ......
WHY would Pope Francis, the leader of the world's estimated 1.2 billion Catholics, intervene in the case of Charlie Gard, an infant in the UK who suffers from an extremely rare form of...
LAWYERS should claim their place in society by espousing Pan-African ideals. They should stop defending and colluding with corrupt African elites.
THE year 2016 had a number of shocking global economic events, notable among which was the British exit from the European Union famously termed as the Brexit.
ALLOW me first of all to express my deep gratitude to all the colleagues that have worked hard - in the Secretariat, in the Agencies, Funds and Programmes - to allow for this report to be ready...
THERE is overwhelming evidence that empowering women and girls has transformative personal, social, economic and health benefits for individuals, their children, families and society at large....