Environment

About 180,000 thousand in need of humanitarian assistance after Mindanao earthquakes in the Philippines

The Report DeskNovember 5, 2019November 5, 2019

More than 180,000 people are affected by many families requiring humanitarian assistance after a series of powerful earthquakes struck Cotabato province in Mindanao, Philippines. IFRC Philippines Head of Country Office...

Environment Food & Water

Avoiding Meat To Lower Greenhouse Gas Emissions Can Be A Bad Idea

Mau ZenokiSeptember 25, 2019September 26, 2019

Agriculture is one of the major contributors to global warming with 14.5 percent of gas emissions mostly from livestock and poultry. While some think tanks from developed countries suggest that reduction of...

Environment

Ending Floods: Possible Means To Reducing Catastrophes

Daniel NwachukwuNovember 25, 2018September 26, 2019

In 2018, Ghana’s National Disaster Management Organization (NADMO) announced that at least 34 people have died and as many as 100,000 people have been displaced due to the incessant surge...

Environment Featured

Africa And Climate Change

Daniel NwachukwuSeptember 8, 2018July 26, 2019

Though Africa is among the least of populating continents, the continent bears the brunt of climate change. The developed western world has produced the majority of the carbon emissions that...

December 20, 2018
Solving Yemen Crisis In 2019
2018 has been a year filled with intense conflicts such as the war in Yemen, Syria, South Sudan and ISIL related events and may birth...
November 21, 2018
Can Aung San Suu Kyi Get Back The Adoration She Once Enjoyed
Aung San Suu Kyi, the state counsellor of Myanmar has been quiet over the human rights abuse and what seems like 'ethnic cleansing' by the...
January 13, 2020
The proposed free breakfast in Malaysian schools may be dropped as the Education Minister steps down
Malaysian pupils and their parents or wards have been left in awe after Education Minister, Mr Mazlee Malik stepped down from office, thereby casting doubts...
September 8, 2018
7 Ways National Governments Can Help In Achieving The Sustainable Development Goals.
The sustainable developments seem to be ambitious and near impossible but with the successful reports of the Millenium Development Goals, there is a glance of hope;...
September 8, 2018
3 Simple But Essential Approaches To Reduce Gender Inequality
Gender Inequality has become one of the biggest issues in the world especially in the developing countries where cultures and traditions are the starting force...

January 13, 2020
The proposed free breakfast in Malaysian schools may be dropped as the Education Minister steps down
Malaysian pupils and their parents or wards have been left in awe after Education Minister, Mr Mazlee Malik stepped down from office, thereby casting doubts...
January 13, 2020
Meet Samira Ahmed – The woman who fought and won the BBC gender discrimination case
Engaging in a legal battle against a firm under which you ply your trade is not a regular occurrence but the records now have it...
January 13, 2020
Only 17 people are living in poverty in a province of 80 million in China
The UN's major agenda and also a major challenge for the next few years is, and has been to flush out impoverishment from most countries;...
January 13, 2020
Iran losing its credibility after shooting down a Ukrainian plane
Amid fears of the eruption of a possible World War III, the Iranian Military has poured cold water on reports that its attack on a...
December 9, 2019
This is why children’s TV is so weird – and so mesmerising
What makes the world’s most successful children’s TV programmes so addictive – and so strange? Linda Geddes explores the research on kids’ TV, what it’s...