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RUFIJI, Tanzania, March 24 (IPS) - By the time the auction begins at Nangurukuru fish market in Tanzania's southern Lindi region, the crisis is already visible. Wooden canoes that once returned from the Rufiji River with heavy catches now bring only ...

The death toll from a horrific attack on a hospital in Sudan's Darfur has risen further, amid a "sharp increase" in drone attacks against civilians this year, UN agencies said on Tuesday.

The World Health Organization (WHO) called on Tuesday for countries to step up action to end tuberculosis (TB) - one of the world's deadliest infectious killers - by expanding access to new diagnostic tools that can help save lives.

As tensions escalate in the Middle East, the international community must not lose sight of the situation in Gaza, an official with US President Donald Trump's Board of Peace across the shattered enclave said on Tuesday in his first appearance in the ...

The latest wave of Russian attacks across Ukraine have reportedly killed and injured civilians and damaged critical infrastructure in Dnipro, Odesa, Poltava, Zaporizhzhia and other regions.

Deadly gangs in Haiti are expanding their reach to include control over key sea and road routes as police in the beleaguered Caribbean island nation are being accused of using "unnecessary and disproportionate lethal force and summary executions."

As the war continues to roil the Middle East and compound suffering for civilians across the region, the economic ramifications of the emergency are still playing out, with the Strait of Hormuz the focus of global attention. Meanwhile, settler ...

GENEVA, March 24 (IPS) - As trade ministers gather in Yaoundé, Cameroon, for the WTO's 14th Ministerial Conference (MC14) on 26-29 March 2026, the preparatory process has produced a dense fog of competing reform proposals, draft ministerial ...

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, March 24 (IPS) - In mid-1971, US President Nixon ended the dollar's gold peg at $35 per ounce, triggering de-dollarisation. The 2025 gold and silver rush followed private speculators trying to profit from central banks hedging ...

VICTORIA, Seychelles, March 23 (IPS) - When the 11th Our Ocean Conference opens in Mombasa and Kilifi, Kenya, from June 16-18, 2026, it will mark the first time this influential meeting has been held on African soil. For coastal and island nations .. ...