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  1. Tanzania and Uganda: Bad Places To Be an Opposition Politician

    - Inter Press Service

    KAMPALA, Jun 19 (IPS) - In East Africa's Tanzania and Uganda, political tensions are rising as they prepare for the next elections. Tanzania goes to the polls in October 2025, while Uganda’s presidential and general elections will take place early in 2026.

  2. Regaining Progress on Birth Registration Is Critical to Child Protection

    - Inter Press Service

    SYDNEY, Jun 17 (IPS) - Registering the birth of a newborn, which is taken for granted in many countries, has profound lifelong repercussions for a child’s health, protection, and well-being. But after initially increasing this century, the global birth registration rate has declined in the past ten years, with some countries in the Pacific and Sub-Saharan Africa facing significant challenges. Embracing new registration technologies, increasing political will, and increasing parents’ understanding of its importance are paramount to reversing the trend.

  3. Tanzania Champions Aquatic Foods at UN Ocean Conference in Nice

    - Inter Press Service

    NICE, France, Jun 17 (IPS) - With less than six harvest seasons left to meet the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the urgency to find transformative solutions to end hunger, protect the oceans, and build climate resilience dominated the ninth panel session at the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference in Nice, France.

  4. The Risk of Famine Looms Throughout Multiple Sudanese Counties

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Jun 16 (IPS) - Over the course of 2025, the food security situation in Sudan has taken a considerable turn for the worst. Compounded by the Sudanese Civil War, millions of civilians face alarming levels of food insecurity and are at risk of experiencing famine. Humanitarian experts have described the situation in Sudan as being the worst hunger crisis in the world today.

  5. Disaster Risk Reduction: The Insurance That Always Pays Off

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Jun 16 (IPS) - Floods, earthquakes, and droughts are striking the wallets of the world harder than any other time in history. According to the Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction, the cost of disasters is only growing, with annual expenditures exceeding $2.3 trillion; accounting for over 2% of global GDP, and if represented as a nation, it would have the seventh largest GDP.

  6. Private Sector Key to Unlocking the Future of Development

    - Inter Press Service

    NEW YORK, Jun 16 (IPS) - Geopolitical tensions – from deepening rivalries between major powers to regional conflicts – have placed acute pressure on the international development agenda. Development assistance from major funders has been on the decline. The world is becoming more unpredictable.

  7. Make use of all urban waste, a utopia in Brazil?

    - Inter Press Service

    TIMBO / FLORIANOPOLIS, Brazil, Jun 13 (IPS) - In 2014, Santa Catarina became the first and only state free of open-air garbage dumps in Brazil. Now, 14 of its municipalities are seeking to also free themselves from landfills and make use of nearly all urban solid waste.

  8. Reviving Mangroves at the Edge of Mozambique Channel

    - Inter Press Service

    NICE, France, Jun 13 (IPS) - Just before dawn, a flotilla of wooden canoes drifts silently  through mangrove-tangled channels where roots sprout from the black mud of the lagoon. Here, at the edge between sea and forest, lies a story of restoration.

  9. Biggest-Ever Aid Cut by G7 Members a Death Sentence for Millions of People

    - Inter Press Service

    ALBERTA, Canada, Jun 13 (IPS) - Aid cuts could cost millions of lives and leave girls, boys, women and men without access to enough food, water, education, health treatment.

    G7 countries are making deliberate and deadly choices by cutting life-saving aid, enabling atrocities, and reneging on their international commitments

  10. Mexico, Spain, East Africa, Awarded For their Ecosystem Restoration Programs

    - Inter Press Service

    NICE, Jun 13 (IPS) - At the 2025 United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC3), the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) recognized three countries and regions for their large-scale programs to restore their native ecosystems.

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