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Yasmine Sherif, director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), announced the grant on Friday in the capital Port-au-Prince, during a major UN mission to the Caribbean country. The aim is to reach nearly 75,000 children and young people in the hardest-hit departments of Ouest, where the capital is located, and Artibonite. The power of education Ms. […]

Opinion by Andrew Firmin (London) Friday, July 26, 2024 Inter Press Service LONDON, Jul 26 (IPS) – Two politicians have just been sentenced to lengthy prison terms in Eswatini. Their crime? Calling for democracy. Mthandeni Dube and Bacede Mabuza, then both Members of Parliament (MPs), were arrested in July 2021 for taking part in a

Members of the indigenous guard of the indigenous community of Puerto Nuevo, of the Amazonian Kakataibo people, located in the central-eastern jungle of Peru. Credit: Courtesy of Marcelo Odicio by Mariela Jara (Lima) Friday, July 26, 2024 Inter Press Service LIMA, July 26 (IPS) – The invasion of territories inhabited by indigenous communities in the

Tears welled up in Tasha Porttin’s eyes as she recalled the sheer beauty of the place she has lived for 10 years. Jasper’s mountain peaks and the beautiful pine trees that frame vibrant baby-blue lakes make it a popular tourist destination, drawing millions of people each year. The natural beauty and small businesses, like the

As France prepares a massive security operation to protect the Olympics, a video circulated on social media purporting to depict Hamas threatening to attack Paris. But the Palestinian militant group denies making the clip, the French Interior Ministry said it could not verify its authenticity and experts say it appears to be part of a

Yoel Zilberman has been working to raise awareness of the plight of Israel’s agricultural sector for over 15 years. The sector has been hit hard by changes to its iconic kibbutz model and vulnerable to criminality over the past three decades. Now, the sector has been thrown into further disarray following the horrific Hamas terror

For French Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin, the man responsible for security at the Olympic Games in Paris, the sabotage attacks on the high-speed train network are a blow. He has promised that all attackers will be arrested soon, but he has not yet identified who is to blame. Sports Minister Amélie Oudéa-Castéra promised that the

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador thanked Guatemala on Friday for helping the nearly 100,000 victims. 600 Mexicans who crossed the border into Guatemala to escape drug cartel violencebut also minimized the violence that drove them there. In his first remarks since the refugees began fleeing earlier this week, the president

Suspected arson attacks on French rail network ahead of opening of Olympic Games on Friday described by prime minister Gabriel Attal as “coordinated sabotage actions” have caused chaos and major inconvenience to travelers. Unknown individuals placed firebombs at several key locations along the railway line during the night, further increasing the already high fear of

A series of coordinated, malicious arson attacks on France’s rail network has stranded hundreds of thousands of passengers and endangered transport to and from the city. Paris came to a standstill during the night, just hours before the 2024 Olympic Games would start. SNCF CEO Jean-Pierre Farandou, head of France’s national state-owned railway company, said