As leaders gather in Kigali for the Africa Food Systems Forum, CGIAR’s Ismahane Elouafi argues that Africa must connect ...

With El Niño confirmed by the WMO the adoption of climate-smart agriculture techniques and crops is even more urgent.

UNICEF finds that approximately 1 in 5 of all children surveyed reported facing tech-facilitated sexual abuse.

After her husband went missing in a flood in Nepal, Mingma Tamang has spent each day searching hospitals' emergency wards to ...

On the morning of August 26, an unprecedented series of flash floods struck Nepal and the Tibet Autonomous Region of China, causing immense destruction, killing hundreds of civilians and leaving ...

Writing from Evin Prison, Kurdish political prisoner Pakhshan Azizi, who remains under a death sentence, reflects on her ...

Across the vast steppe of northeastern Kazakhstan, the scars of the Cold War remain visible. At the Semipalatinsk Nuclear ...

At the UN desertification summit in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, governments backed a $1.2 billion programme to restore rangelands.

PORTLAND, USA, Sep 1 2026 (IPS) - The age structures of populations vary considerably across countries. Some countries have relatively young populations, with large proportions consisting of children ...

In 2024, Kurdish social worker Pakhshan Azizi was sentenced to death. She remains incarcerated in Evin Prison, Tehran, Iran.

A massive geophysical disaster along the mountainous Nepal-Tibet border has left at least 160 people dead and hundreds more ...