Aaron Glantz WASHINGTON, Sep 26 2007 (IPS) – On Mar. 19, 2004 Corporal Justin Bunce was on patrol in the Iraqi city of Husayba on the Syrian border when a bomb exploded in the wall of a cemetery. The blast…
Aimable Twahirwa interviews ANTHONY HAWKRIDGE, tuberculosis researcher KIGALI, Oct 8 2010 (IPS) – Despite the availability of a vaccine, 1.3 million people worldwide died from tuberculosis (TB) in 2008, according to the World Health Organisation. Most of them lived in…
The MUOS antennas in the cork forest in Niscemi. Credit: Courtesy of Fabio D’Alessandro LUCCA, Italy, Oct 15 2013 (IPS) – Niscemi, with its 30,000 local residents and its white houses, is a typical southern Sicilian town. But it stands…
Credit: in the Philippines, supported by the Agroecology Fund ROME, Oct 23 2020 (IPS) – Producing food and ensuring nutrition security, protecting the environment and restoring biodiversity, building sustainable and fair food systems: That’s the promise of agroecology. It is…
COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions meant that many informal sector traders lost their jobs. Not eligible for compensation, some have turned to sex work. Credit: Marko Phiri/IPS Bulawayo, ZIMBABWE , Nov 4 2021 (IPS) – Thirty-six-year-old Thandiwe Mtshali* watched helplessly as…