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The General Assembly was marking the International Day of Combating Sand and Dust Storms on Saturday and its designation of 2025 to 2034 as the U.N. decade on combating sand and dust storms.
Just before a major HIV vaccine trial was to begin, U.S. funding cuts halted South Africa’s BRILLIANT project, threatening ...
A retired former UN ambassador calls it a must read. At the book launch in Fredericksburg, Ambassador Bridgewater read a ...
Nigeria’s former president, Muhammadu Buhari, who led Nigeria twice as a military head of state and a democratic president ...
Activist Tommy Garnett's decades of work paid off when Sierra Leone's Tiwai island -- a lush forest home to one of the ...
Macroinvertebrates include snails and larvae of dragonflies, caddisflies, mayflies and stoneflies, among others. They can be ...
According to a UN report, sand and dust storms, worsened by climate change, are impacting health and environments globally, ...
The $4 billion that the United States pledged for the global HIV response for 2025 disappeared virtually overnight in January ...
The U.N. and the Dutch foreign ministry said on Friday they had cancelled an LGBTQ-themed event in Senegal after the West ...
Ending USAID could lead to the deaths of 14 million people over the next five years, an analysis from a medical journal predicts.
Although economic integration is often discussed in Africa, there is a sharp contrast between these discussions and reality. One exception is Gervais Koffi Djondo, who has made it his mission.