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    Latest News from the Laboratory of Applied Ecology, led by Prof Brice Sinsin in Benin Republic (West Africa).

    Tanzanian Savings Groups | Purpose Group

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Elisongoya is a resilient 40-year-old farmer. The lives of Elisongoya, her husband, and their four children took a positive turn, thanks...

    ‘Historic milestone’ as child mortality hits record low of 4.9 million in 2022

    Figures released by the UN Interagency Group for Child Mortality Estimation (UN IGME) reveal the global under-five mortality rate has declined by 51 per...

    Tanzania Farming Success Story | Plant With Purpose

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). At the center of her village in the Shengena East watershed of Tanzania, lives Davina, a determined single mother of five....

    Critical Ecosystem Partnership Fund approves grants for 3 conservation projects in Seychelles 

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Blue Economy Research Institute (BERI) at the University of Seychelles, Indian Ocean Tortoises Alliance (IOTA) and the Seychelles Islands Foundation (SIF) have received approval for grant...

    UN telecomms agency chief: One third of humanity still offline

    Doreen Bogdan-Martin underscored ITU's wide-ranging brief, emphasizing its pivotal role in fostering connectivity across the globe.  Founded in 1865 as an international telegraph association, today...

    UN chief appeals for Sudan ceasefire, now: ‘Values of Ramadan must prevail’

    The war between rival militaries Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF), now in its eleventh month, has not only claimed...

    Sustainable Agriculture in Haiti Creates Hope

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). In recent years, few countries have reached the level of instability seen by Haiti. The collapse of its central government and...

    South Sudan: Top UN official calls for greater political investment as polls loom

    Briefing ambassadors at the Security Council, Jean-Pierre Lacroix said that if the parties display greater political will and invest adequate resources, credible elections can...

    World News in Brief: Climate change in the countryside, Yemen polio drive success, development...

    The Unjust Climate report highlights the reality that every year in low and middle-income countries, female heads of households in rural areas suffer significantly greater financial...

    Human ingenuity can help to save nature, Guterres says on World Wildlife Day

    Human activities have devastated our wildlife. Human ingenuity can help to save it,” he said. This year’s theme focuses on how digital technologies can drive...

    WHO: Investments and myth-busting to improve hearing

    “Only one out of five people are actually accessing hearing rehabilitation of those who need it,” said Dr. Shelly Chadha, in charge of WHO’s...

    Student gastronomes plan recipe for Madagascar’s future

    At Beabo Primary School in Ambovombe in the south of Madagascar, teams of students are in competition to cook the tastiest and most nutritional...

    IPCC News Comment — IPCC

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is the UN body for assessing the science related to climate change. It...

    No medicine, no hope: Doctors describe life under Israeli attack in Gaza

    “Life is very difficult here,” hospital manager Dr. Haidar Al-Qudra told UN News. Currently, only 12 of Gaza’s 36 hospitals are “partially functioning”, according to...

    World unites at UN Environment Assembly to combat ‘triple planetary crisis’

    More than 7,000 delegates from 182 countries are scheduled to take part in the sixth session of the United Nations Environment Assembly (UNEA-6) which...

    UN envoy calls for curb on illicit weapons in Central African Republic

    Briefing ambassadors on the UN Security Council, Valentine Rugwabiza, Special Representative for the Central African Republic (CAR), recalled the 15 January explosion which targeted...

    Zero waste, more hope in South Sudan

    The team is working with local authorities and civil society to find fresh solutions to the young nation’s environmental challenges, one reused plastic bottle...

    Asia-Pacific off track on path to SDGs, UN data shows

    Adopted by world leaders in 2015, the 17 Goals focus on ending extreme poverty and hunger, ensuring access to clean water and sanitation, and...

    Security Council: Continued Libya impasse threatens country’s future

    They must put aside self-interest, negotiate in good faith and reach an agreement on a unified government, while also ensuring national polls go ahead...

    In search of the last saola

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). February 15, 2024 — “I’ve seen grown men reduced to tears in the Annamite Mountains,” says wildlife biologist Lorraine Scotson of...

    Plant With Purpose Malawi Launch Report

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Plant With Purpose's newest country program has officially opened! Last month, our newest partnering country program, Floresta in Malawi, launched with a...

    First-ever UN report reveals complex threats to migratory species

    Of most concern is the threat to migratory fishes, with 97 per cent of the species on the brink of extinction.   The two greatest...

    First Person: ‘My eggs are too expensive to eat’ (and that’s a good thing)

    Over 80 chicken rearers in Anosy Region have so far received the possibly life-altering birds, which originate in India but which are now thriving...