COVID-19’s Staggering Toll on Education Around the WorldAfter decades of hard work to get kids into primary schools, the COVID-19 pandemic has now pushed education back to...
How Will COVID-19 Impact Africa? The WHO Releases Pandemic ProjectionsSo far, COVID-19 hasn’t hit Africa as hard as other regions, but a new study by the World Health Organization...
What Will COVID-19 Do to the Sustainable Development Goals?The economic impact of COVID-19 could increase global poverty for the first time in three decades, pushing more than half...
The UN Has a “Global Roadmap” to Defeat COVID-19. Will Countries Follow It?Late last week, the United Nations published a global “roadmap” to defeat COVID-19, including a new $1 billion trust fund...
Massive swarms of desert locusts are devouring their way through East Africa. The UN is very worried.Massive swarms of desert locusts are devouring their way through East Africa and have just made landfall in South Sudan,...
There Has Been a Staggering Increase in Hunger in the Sahel Region. Violence and Climate Change are to BlameWhile the world’s attention is turned to the coronavirus outbreak, three UN agencies warned on Tuesday about another crisis that...
In the New UN Human Development Report Norway Tops the List as the Country With the Highest Quality of LifeCompared to 20 years ago, the world’s poorest are doing far better. But millions of people are still anxious about...
The Most Food Insecure Countries in the World, RankedWith just 10 more years to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, 43 countries in the world are still facing “serious”...
How a vaccine scare caused polio to re-emerge in the Philippines after 19 yearsNineteen years after polio was officially eradicated in the Philippines, the incurable disease has made a resurgence due to widespread...
