An Extreme Malnutrition Crisis is Escalating in Northern NigeriaThe warnings about a severe humanitarian crisis underway in a remote corner of Nigeria previously controlled by Boko Haram are...
Will These African Languages be Lost forever?The San are one of the oldest groups to inhabit Southern Africa. From Zimbabwe and South Africa, to Botswana and...
The Security Council Holds Yet Another Poll to Decide Who Will Become the Next Secretary GeneralUpdates with results, below The third informal straw poll by the Security Council to pick the next Secretary General of...
There’s New Evidence of Chemical Weapons in Syria, Now a Showdown is Looming at the Security CouncilChemical Weapons have been used — again — in Syria. A report transmitted to the Security Council yesterday by a...
Can Kofi Annan Bring Peace to a Troubled Region?The former Secretary General is taking on a new challenge: bringing peace and reconciliation to a desolate, troubled corner of...
An historic first for the International Criminal CourtYesterday saw the trial of Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi at the International Criminal Court for the intentional destruction of world heritage...
Collecting honest data on maternal deaths gives us the information we need to save women’s lives.Maternal death is one of the thorny problems of global health. Many different factors can cause a mother to lose...
Australia’s Offshore Refugee Detention Under Fire Australia announced yesterday that it would be closing its controversial migrant detention center on Manus island in Papua New...
Map of the Day: Where and How the USA Will Spend Foreign Aid in 2017Today’s map comes from the new ForeignAssistance.gov website. It is a fascinating data visualization of planned global development and foreign...