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Fulgence Ndayizeye, a Burundian bicycle taxi driver who used to cross the Congolese-Burundian border every day to support his family, wanted to return home. He and more than 500 other Burundians, including women, men, and children, stranded in Uvira ...

TORONTO, Canada, December 22 (IPS) - Our traditional "year-ender" usually kicks off with a grim litany of world disasters and crises over the past 12 months, highlights IPS partners and contributors and culminates in a more positive-sounding finale. ...

TOKYO, Japan, December 22 (IPS) - Leaders of Japan and the five Central Asian states met in Tokyo on Dec. 20 and adopted the "Tokyo Declaration," launching a new leaders-level format under the "Central Asia plus Japan Dialogue" (CA+JAD). The ...

Multiple shocks defined 2025: conflict, climate breakdown and shrinking democracy. Multilateral institutions were tested as never before.

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, December 22 (IPS) - Myanmar is heading for an election, beginning on 28 December, that's ostensibly an exercise in democracy - but it has clearly been designed with the aim of conferring more legitimacy on its military junta.

UNITED NATIONS, December 22 (IPS) - 2025 marked a notable year of progress in reducing global hunger; yet climate pressures, economic instability, and ongoing conflicts continue to push agri-food systems to their limits, undermining food availability ...

WINDHOEK, Namibia, December 22 (IPS) - Last November, the streets of Windhoek came alive with the sound of drums and brass as a marching band led a procession of women from Namibia's Defence and security forces.

NAIROBI, December 19 (IPS) - Farmers can now know and benefit from their contribution to climate change thanks to a formula that can be used to calculate the amount of carbon stored in fruit trees.

CIVICUS discusses climate displacement and Tuvalu's future with Kiali Molu, a former civil servant at Tuvalu's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and currently a PhD candidate at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji and the University of Bergen in .. ...

UNITED NATIONS, December 19 (IPS) - A long-standing proposal going back to 1996--to establish a single non-renewable seven-year term for the Secretary-General of the United Nations- has been resurrected by former UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.