Development

News Hour: IOM Somalia, together with Poly-Glu Social Business from Osaka, Japan held a public-private partnership event entitled: Saving Lives through Poly-Glu Water: A Seminar to Share Lessons Learned from Africa and Asia. During the half...

News Hour: On the last day of the MIDWA meeting in Abidjan, Cote d’Ivoire yesterday (25/8), an agreement was reached between the members of the ECOWAS on a joint action plan. Ministers, delegates and experts worked...

News Hour: Thousands of protesters across Australia have held rallies to demand the closure of the country’s overseas refugee detention centres, reports Aljazeera. Demonstrators took to the streets of several Australian cities on Saturday, carrying banners...

News Hour: A type of sugar found in some women’s breast milk which may save babies from a potentially life-threatening bacterium called Group B streptococcus which is a common cause of meningitis in newborns babies and...

News Hour: A two-day regional conference on ethical recruitment of migrant fishermen working in Korean-flagged vessels opened in Seoul, bringing together approximately 100 participants, including government officials from Indonesia, Viet Nam, the Philippines and South Korea....

News Hour: UN Environment Chief Erik Solheim concluded on Tuesday a two-day visit to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where he met with officials of the Government of Ethiopia, heads and representatives of key regional institutions as well...

News Hour: For the 500 Harbour porpoises remaining in the Baltic Sea, life is fraught with peril. Every day, these endearing cetaceans face the deadly threat of getting entangled in fishing nets and suffocating. They have...

News Hour: Today at the Sixth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD-VI), African heads of state and partners vowed to accelerate progress toward universal health coverage (UHC) in Africa. To help countries implement their health...

News Hour: IOM, in close collaboration with Turkmenistan’s Ministry of Health and Medical Industry, State Migration Services and Ministry of Interior organized a workshop on “Migration, health and substance abuse” in Turkmenbashi on 22-23 August 2016....

News Hour: At least 16 people died in a fire that broke out at a Moscow warehouse on Saturday morning, Russian authorities said, reports BSS. “When the fire was being put out, a room that had...