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Photo above: Children in the International Rescue Committee Kindergarten in Hamadiya. Photo credit: UN Photo/Fred Noy/IPS. By Amy Fallon IPS Correspondent KAMPALA, Uganda (IPS) — After escaping the genocide in Sudan’s Darfur region during which his father and two brothers were ...

Photo above: Research assistant, Blance Soussous, showing packed parboiled rice. Photo credit: Busani Bufana/IPS. By Busani Bafana IPS Africa Correspondent COTONOU, Benin (IPS) — Africa is eating more rice than other food staples, though it produces less than it needs. This ...

By Thalif Deen IPS UN Correspondent UNITED NATIONS, New York (IPS) — Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who passed away, on Tuesday, at the age of 93, was the only UN Secretary-General (1992-1996) to be denied a second term in office because of ...

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (CMC) – Former Attorney General, Dale Marshall, is questioning the wisdom in having Barbadian nationals, leaving or returning to the country, be subjected to being finger printed. Marshall told the Barbados Today on line publication, that the new ...

Photo above: Raymond Tim Kee. Photo credit: FIFA. PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad CMC – The Port of Spain City Council was not expected to make a decision, yesterday, on the resignation of Mayor Raymond Tim Kee, even as the controversy ...

PLACENCIA, Belize CMC – Caribbean Community (CARICOM) leaders began their two-day Inter-sessional summit here, today, amid concerns of slow economic growth, the global oil situation and the threat to corresponding banking in the region. Host Prime Minister and incoming CARICOM ...

Photo above is JLP Leader, Andrew Holness. Photo courtesy of JLP. KINGSTON, Jamaica CMC – The main opposition Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) refuted media reports, yesterday, that its political leader, Andrew Holness, is being investigated by state agencies. “The JLP would like ...

By Amina Mohamed and Siddharth Chatterjee IPS Guest Writers NAIROBI, Kenya (IPS) — When President Barack Obama made his first visit to Kenya as US President in July 2015, one of the poignant messages he left was an exhortation for ...

Photo above: PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee. Photo credit: PPP. GEORGETOWN, Guyana CMC – The main opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday, called on the Guyana government to put in writing, its policy regarding the operations of the state-owned Government ...

LONDON, England CMC – Jamaica has led Caribbean Community (CARICOM) countries in how effectively children can use the law to challenge violations of their rights. In the first-ever global study on children’s access to justice, undertaken by the London-based Child ...