At least US$1 billion will be needed urgently to avert famine in Somalia in the coming months and early next year, the UN humanitarian chief Martin Griffiths predicted on Tuesday (6 September). Speaking from Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, he said that, according to a new report from an authoritative panel of independent experts, there will be […]
Qatar’s candidate in the race for the post of UNESCO Director General, Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kawar, Monday won the first round of elections ahead of Friday final decision. Kawar won 19 out of 58 votes outdoing French candidate Audrey Azoulay and Cairo’s candidate Moushira Khattab who got respectively 13 and 11 votes. The four […]
Deep in Cameroon’s forests, a quiet crisis is unfolding. The Baka and Bagyieli, Indigenous communities who have called these woods home for generations, are facing an identity crisis that threatens to erase them from the map. Imagine living your whole life without a piece of paper that says you exist. That’s the reality for over […]
