Development

News Hour: The Government of Zimbabwe in collaboration with IOM this week launched the Zimbabwe National Diaspora Directorate to enhance the engagement and participation of the Zimbabwean diaspora in national development. The launch of the Directorate...

News Hour: As the numbers of refugees and migrants across the globe continue to grow to unprecedented levels, the communities that host them need the world’s support to cope with the enormous strain placed on their...

News Hour: The development of Mongolia’s mining industry in the Gobi region has led to an increase in internal and international migration towards the mining sites, creating new challenges, and increasing the risk of irregular migration,...

News Hour: Landslide triggered by heavy rain has left three deaths and four missing in central Vietnam, said local authorities. According to survivors, a group of 10 people went to pick bamboo shoots in a forest...

News Hour: The Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank today confirmed that, as announced on August 23, the period for submitting nominations for the position of President of the World Bank Group closed at...

News Hour: Standard Chartered Bank Malaysia Berhad and the Asian Development Bank (ADB) have signed a RM80 million supply chain finance (SCF) agreement that will benefit small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Malaysia. The deal is...

News Hour: Transparency International welcomes the decision by the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies to strip its former speaker Eduardo Cunha of his parliamentary mandate for misleading statements about his assets, and calls for a full-scale investigation...

News Hour: UNICEF is calling on world leaders to invest in better data on children, warning in a new analysis that sufficient data is available only for half of the child-related Sustainable Development Goals indicators. The...

News Hour: The Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) signed a agreement with the Government of Uganda to provide grant aid of up to 2.136 billion yen for the Project for Improvement of Gulu Municipal Council Roads...

News Hour: The government of Paraguay has failed to act to protect a group of uncontacted tribal people, despite having been ordered to do so in February of this year. Six months ago the Inter-American Commission...