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

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The White Paper on the state of Bangladesh’s economy will include a review of “smuggled money”, according to the head of the ...

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 ...

In this IPS podcast, a scientist from the International Livestock Research Institute in Nairobi, Kenya, talks about pandemic ...

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 ...

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Understanding the scale and intensity of the COVID-19 virus and its emerging variants, predicting the pandemic’s direction, and developing and refining associated management response options are ...