Category: World
Face the facts: China isn’t leaving Latin America anytime soon
On May 22, the first train of Bogota’s new metro system made its initial trial run on the 15-mile elevated viaduct for Line…
The US suggests it might dump talks as Russia escalates war
The warning from Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to the U.S. and European governments to evacuate their diplomats and citizens from Kyiv before…
Ebola Outbreak in the DRC Raises Global Health Concerns Amid Conflict and Displacement
Since May 16, there has been a significant increase in the number of laboratory-confirmed and suspected Ebola cases reported across the Democratic Republic…
Connecting the Dots: Quality Seed, Resilient Food Systems and Good Health
It is often said that the quality of seed determines the quality of the produce and, consequently, the sustainability of the entire agricultural…
Iran to Israel: You hit Lebanon, and we’ll hit the UAE
Despite the ceasefire and tentative progress toward a memorandum of understanding between Washington and Tehran, the Persian Gulf has remained perilously volatile. In…
From Seed to Canopy: How a GEF-Funded Smallholder Project is Restoring the Environment, Building Livelihoods
As 52-year-old Alice Onyango walks through her farm in Siaya county, Kenya, you can tell she is proud of her trees, as some…
Developing Countries Feel Squeeze from Lower Natural Resource Revenue & Falling Foreign Aid
Developing countries face major difficulties as income from natural resource extraction industries decreases and wealthier nations reduce their aid. Nontax revenue from natural…
New US Fed Policy Deepens World Stagflation
The Federal Reserve Bank’s turn to ‘reserve management’ exposes the limited policy options still available as the US seeks to protect itself against…
Trump’s intensified airstrikes in Nigeria are strategically pointless
On May 19, a press release from the Nigerian military proclaimed that, in a joint operation with the United States, it dealt a…
Fiber-optic drones show profound limits of ‘cutting-edge’ weapons
“Birds in Ukraine are building nests from drone cable.” The headline itself tells a story, but the subsequent article in The Sunday Times…
