Development

News Hour: USAID’s Office for Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) has confirmed a new contribution of USD 2.3 million to strengthen IOM’s assistance to conflict-affected internally displaced persons (IDPs) in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)....

News Hour: On Wednesday (12 august), IOM in the Central African Republic (CAR) joined national and local authorities in Ndele, in the country’s remote northeast, to present some 450 graduation certificates to adult students who successfully...

News Hour: IOM Ghana’s Global Health Security Agenda (GHSA) programme is helping Kotoka International Airport (KIA) to develop a Public Health Emergency Contingency Plan (PHECP) tailored for the operations and capacity of the airport. The formulation...

Women Deliver, a global advocacy organization, awarded seed grants of US$5,000 each to 10 Young Leaders to support digital storytelling projects raising awareness and supporting positive communications in communities about access to contraception and young people’s...

News Hour: A 7.2-magnitude earthquake hits off the coast of New Caledonia on Friday in the tectonically active Pacific region, but there was no tsunami threat, seismologists said, reports BSS. The quake struck at a depth...

News Hour: Ukraine must not delay the launch of a key electronic system to monitor the assets and interests of politicians and public servants, according to Transparency International, the global anti-corruption organization. In June, when José...

News Hour: Three Australian research satellites – two of them built at the University of New South Wales in Sydney – will be launched to the International Space Station this year and deployed into orbit to...

News Hour: Asian Development Bank (ADB) President Takehiko Nakao today met with the President of Palau, Tommy E. Remengesau, Jr. and the Minister for Finance and ADB Governor, Elbuchel Sadang, to discuss the country’s infrastructure investment...

News Hour: the Brazilian environmental agency, IBAMA, has announced the licensing process to build the São Luiz do Tapajós (SLT), a giant dam planned for one of the last major free-flowing rivers in the Brazilian Amazon,...

News Hour: On UN Indigenous Peoples’ Day, Survival International is calling for the full demarcation and protection of the land of the Kawahiva people, an uncontacted tribe in the Amazon that is at extremely high risk...