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    Ukraine: UN and partners launch Winter Response Plan amid escalating hostilities

    Amidst escalating hostilities and continued strikes on critical infrastructure, Ukraine is once again bracing for another harsh winter.  As the cold season brings heightened...

    75 years after Dumarsais Estimé’s fall, what Haiti can still learn from his vision

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). As the nation unravels today, the legacy of Haiti’s progressive president Estimé echoes louder than ever By Stéphane Pierre-Paul — It would be...

    Principles and Practices of Lived Pan-Africanism

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Maulana Karenga — In the words our honored ancestors used to describe our “rising in radiance”, the world encompassing embrace...

    Rising Waters Will Not Drown the American Spirit

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Ben Jealous —  On the Fourth of July, Donald Trump signed his “megabill.” The law boosts the dying fossil fuel industry...

    The Government Against the People — By Dr. Julianne Malveaux

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). By Dr. Julianne Malveaux — I can’t remember when I met Dr. Olivia Hooker, a Tulsa Massacre survivor, the first African American...

    US-Houthi ceasefire ‘a welcome opportunity’ to advance peace efforts in Yemen

    Ambassadors were briefed by the UN Special Envoy for Yemen, Hans Grundberg, who commended Oman for its efforts to achieve the agreement which came...

    Hunger and cholera crises escalate in South Sudan, as needs surge

    The UN World Food Programme (WFP), World Health Organization (WHO) and UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have raised the alarm over worsening hunger, malnutrition, and...

    UNRWA chief renews call for probe into attacks on humanitarians in Gaza

    Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini made the appeal in a statement posted on the social media platform X, formerly Twitter.He noted that 15 months after the war...

    Number of internally displaced breaks new record with no let-up in conflicts, disasters

    “These figures are a clear warning: without bold and coordinated action, the number of people displaced within their own countries will continue to grow...

    World News in Brief: UNAMA concern over migrant deaths, ‘war tactics’ in the West...

    The alleged attack occurred on 14 to 15 October in the Kala Gan border area of Iran’s Sistan Province near the Iran-Pakistan border. The organisation...

    DR Congo emergency: Fears that regional capital Goma faces attack

    “We are deeply alarmed at the heightened risk of an attack by the M23 armed group on Goma, the capital of North Kivu, in...

    Syria crisis: more than 280,000 uprooted in northwest escalation

    Aid has continued to flow from Türkiye across three border crossings into the embattled northwest and the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said that...

    The Yard Brings Together Alumni, Students And Supporters For Kamala Harris

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). The Yard—Howard’s cultural center—hosts Harris and a community united by legacy, leadership and resilience. By Rachel Bunch, Essence — The Yard, the heart...

    For too long, ‘unbound horrors’ have unfolded in Sudan

    Since civil war erupted in April 2023 between the generals of the national army and their former allies-turned rivals, the Rapid Support Forces (RSF)...

    Gaza: UN warns of ‘weaponised hunger’ and growing death toll amid food chaos

    Speaking to journalists in Deir al Balah on Saturday, Jonathan Whittall, who heads the UN humanitarian coordination office (OCHA) in Gaza and the West...

    World Humanitarian Day 2025: Aid workers mull record toll of their own

    Speaking to UN News from the wartorn enclave to mark World Humanitarian Day, Olga Cherevko from the UN aid coordination office, OCHA, said that...

    Global efforts to end female genital mutilation undermined by ‘vacation cutting’

    Although many States have intensified their efforts towards eradication, the practice continues across the world in part due to “the clandestine nature of cross-border...

    World News in Brief: Famine in Sudan, 400,000 now in Syria from Lebanon, women...

    “Never in modern history have so many people faced starvation and famine as in Sudan today,” the UN Human Rights Council-appointed experts said.Zamzam camp...

    Annual Reparations Symposium Will Mark Opening of National Resource Center for State and Local...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). Dr. Joy DeGruy, Nationally and Internationally Renowned Researcher and Educator, Author of Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome: America’s Legacy of Enduring Injury...

    World News in Brief: West Bank deaths, Venezuela rights violations, soaring debt worldwide

    Israel’s large-scale operation in the north is continuing, OCHA said in a daily news update, which accounts for 27 of the deaths “where lethal...

    Amid massive destruction of Gaza City, UN chief renews ceasefire call

    “It is vital to reach immediately a ceasefire in Gaza,” the Secretary-General told reporters on the sidelines of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development...

    Shelter and safety elude Afghan women returnees from Iran and Pakistan

    Since September 2023, more than 2.43 million undocumented Afghan migrants have returned from Iran and Pakistan.Women and girls account for about half of the...

    Policing in America – Ronald Hampton on History, Reform, and IBW’s Police Justice &...

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PIzRx-0lQjg Ronald Hampton, Chairman of IBW’s Police Justice and Accountability Task Force, retired veteran of the Metropolitan Police Department, and former executive...

    A True Revolutionary, Part II

    Photo credit: DiasporaEngager (www.DiasporaEngager.com). October 7, 2024 Edition of Vantage Point On this edition of Vantage Point, host Dr. Ron Daniels aka The Professor is joined...