Five children have been killed or injured in Haiti for every week of the first six months of 2024, caught in the crossfire of warring…
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José de Souza Nogueira is 63 and says he has had malaria more than 130 times. It is an exceptionally high number, even for a…
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A draft law in Iraq that would allow the marriage of girls as young as nine has provoked protests across the country, with women’s rights…
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Students are out in force on the streets of Dhaka, no longer protesting but working to put a city back together after the dramatic events…
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Apioneering pan-African youth orchestra will perform in public for only the second time this weekend – at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The Africa United Youth…
View More African classical music hits world stage as the Africa United Youth Orchestra plays Carnegie Hall‘Ultra-cheap energy for every household’: could a different kind of tariff change everything?
More than half of the world’s population lives under an energy system that its advocates say can tackle fuel poverty, improve crumbling housing stock and…
View More ‘Ultra-cheap energy for every household’: could a different kind of tariff change everything?African classical music hits world stage as the Africa United Youth Orchestra plays Carnegie Hall
Apioneering pan-African youth orchestra will perform in public for only the second time this weekend – at New York’s Carnegie Hall. The Africa United Youth…
View More African classical music hits world stage as the Africa United Youth Orchestra plays Carnegie HallLoss and damage: how the first climate survivors to receive funds are rebuilding their lives in Malawi
Gladys Austin is a climate disaster survivor. In March last year the 39-year-old mother of six stood in ankle-deep water in the room where her…
View More Loss and damage: how the first climate survivors to receive funds are rebuilding their lives in MalawiCeramics, miniatures and mosaics: the London school reviving the world’s endangered sacred arts
The small city of Nasarpur in Pakistan has a centuries-old reputation for its ceramics. That’s why, when the ceramic worker Ghulam Hyder Daudpota decided to…
View More Ceramics, miniatures and mosaics: the London school reviving the world’s endangered sacred artsGreen economy could generate 3.3m jobs across Africa by 2030 – report
A greener economy could bring millions of jobs to some of the largest countries in Africa, according to a new report. Research by the…
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