– Inter Press Service
ABUJA, Might 24 (IPS) – Nigeria’s accountant-general, the executive head of the nation’s treasury, has been arrested by the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee for allegedly stealing 80 billion naira ($134 million). This can be a staggering theft in a rustic that has an estimated poverty price of 95 million (48% of the inhabitants) and a number of the worst well being indices on this planet.
– Inter Press Service
Durban, Might 24 (IPS) – Fortunate Agbavor sleeps on a mattress in a church in Accra, Ghana sells juice to earn an revenue, and has been a baby labourer since he was 4. Now he has made his method onto the worldwide stage, taking part within the fifth World Convention on the Elimination of Baby labour.
– UN Information
Time is brief for Sudan to achieve an answer to its protracted political disaster, the Particular Consultant for the nation advised the Safety Council on Tuesday, warning that if the deadlock is just not urgently overcome, the results will likely be felt past nationwide borders, impacting a complete technology.
– UN Information
For the primary time, a Zimbabwean peacekeeper has been chosen to obtain the distinguished 2021 Navy Gender Advocate of the 12 months Award, UN Peacekeeping introduced on Tuesday.
– UN Information
The Member States of the World Well being Group (WHO) on Tuesday, re-elected Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus to serve a second five-year time period as Director-Common of the world’s main public well being company.
– Inter Press Service
BUENOS AIRES, Might 24 (IPS) – “All we ever needed was to maintain working. And though now we have not gotten to the place we want to be, we all know that we are able to,” says Edith Pereira, a brief energetic lady, as she walks by way of the corridors of Farmacoop, within the south of the Argentine capital. She proudly says it’s “the primary pharmaceutical laboratory on this planet recovered by its employees.”
– UN Information
Of their pink faculty uniforms, with backpacks on their heads to guard from falling particles, Greater than 200 college students and academics from Tanjong Benoa Elementary Faculty on the Indonesian island of Bali, filed calmly up three flights of stairs to the rooftop of a lodge, near their school rooms.
– Inter Press Service
MADRID, Might 24 (IPS) – The message is obvious: three-quarters of the world’s inhabitants will likely be affected by drought by 2050. Does it sound too far in time? Nicely, your children is perhaps among the many billions of people residing on a desertified planet.
– UN Information
Right this moment’s school graduates can change into the technology to succeed “the place my technology has failed” the UN chief mentioned on Tuesday, urging the category of 2022, to not work for “local weather wreckers” in industries that proceed to revenue from fossil fuels.
– UN Information
Late Captain Abdelrazakh Hamit Bahar of Chad, was named on Tuesday because the recipient of United Nations Peacekeeping’s highest award, for distinctive braveness, serving in Mali, which will likely be introduced on Thursday at UN Headquarters in New York.
