TSHWANE, South Africa, Sep 17 2010 (IPS) – Without contributions from well wishers and government grants of between 68 and 104 dollars per month per child, the House of Mother and Child in Ennerdale, south of Johannesburg, would barely be able to provide for the 18 vulnerable children who call the place home.
Ear to the ground: MP3s on MDGs
, says development economist John Rook.
Brian Moonga takes a look at .
, reports Grant Fuller.
Lansana Fofana reports on .
Eunice Wanjiru speaks to women in rural Rwanda about .
Mustapha Muhammad considers the practice of .
, says continent’s Millennium Campaign chief
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The safe house is home to 18 orphans, of which seven are AIDS orphans, while others are surviv…
Emilio Godoy*
MEXICO CITY, Apr 4 2011 (IPS) – Rather belatedly, Latin America is beginning to test products imported from Japan to check that they are not contaminated with radioactivity from the Fukushima nuclear power station that was severely damaged by the Mar. 11 earthquake and tsunami.
Authorities in Mexico and Brazil have begun to monitor foods and health supplies from the Asian country for radiation.
Japan is not a major food exporter, but monitoring is necessary because of the problem of exposure to radiation, Alejandro Calvillo, head of the Mexican organisation El Poder del Consumidor (Consumer Power), told IPS.
The National Commission for Nuclear Safety and Safeguards (CNSNS) and the Federal Commission for Protection against Health Risks (COFEPRIS)…
Africa has been transformed from a net food exporter into a net food importer, while realizing only a small fraction of its vast agricultural potential. Credit: Busani Bafana/IPS
KUALA LUMPUR AND SYDNEY, May 21 2018 (IPS) – Agriculture is critical for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). As the Food and Agriculture Organization () notes, ‘From ending poverty and hunger to responding to climate change and sustaining our natural re…
NEW DELHI, Feb 7 2022 (IPS) – The year 2021 began with several new vaccines showing efficacy in randomized trials, but despite 26 authorised Covid-19 vaccines globally, and at least another 200 in development (The Lancet, 2021), the first few weeks of year 2022 brought a sense of uncertainty.
Nidhi Kaicker
Nearly 2 years after the first Covid-19 case was registered in India, the country ranked third globally in terms of total deaths due to coronavirus, and second in terms of total number of cases. More than six and a half million cases and fifteen thousand deaths were added to India’s tally in January 2022 alone. The increased detection of the Omicron variant in th…