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Indonesia's educational actors celebrated this year's National Education Day on Sunday. They again celebrated this annual observance which commemorates ...

Security policy and demographic processes are the greatest challenges facing Israeli democracy today. An analysis by Martin Beck

Idriss Déby, president of Chad, died April 19 in the Tibesti mountains, weapons in hand, as Chad troops fought an armed convoy of his regime’s opponents from the Front for Change and Concord in Chad, which had entered the country from Libya. Déby’s loss was a major blow to French…

Print this article The Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation (AFCP) is a federal program that, since its establishment by Congress in 2001, has granted millions of dollars—$47,750,971 through 2013—to about 800 projects of foreign governments seeking to preserve historic structures and institutions. Administered by the Cultural Heritage Center at the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, AFCP is little known to the American public. Grants are made on the basi...

By Mansee Bal Bhargava*  Mother India or Bharat Mata is referred metaphorically as a Goddess of the billion plus people of India who is as caring and loving besides strong and powerful, who can guide its children to right path. Today, the children of the Mother India are going through a Tsunami of Covid-19 worsened further with the poor Covid governance.  This is augmented with the ongoing congregations at elections, Kumbh Mela, and the rising shortage of the medication which are failing bot...

The development challenge April 21, 2021 Global wisdom is increasingly reaching the conclusion that the holistic model of human development is the real answer to the present and evolving challenges faced by the global community. In recent years, a tremendous amount of research has emerged that demonstrates linkages between lack of human development and the unrest, insecurity and inequality experienced by large swathes of the developing world, especially Pakistan. Underdevelopment is a risk fa...

Nigeria and COVID-19: Impact on education, technology and human development By Wed Apr 21 2021 COVID-19 came to reveal the underbelly of a self-built, self-engineered and self-inflicted national decadence and underdevelopment in virtually every aspect of our national life. The COVID-19 conundrum started tamely towards the end of 2019, in Wuhan, a town in China. Within a year, the entire world was gripped by a pandemic, paralysing the world, curtailing national and international travels. Nigeri...

DICT exec: Protection of online workers crucial as ICT use increases during pandemic Share on email The Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated the use of digital technologies that enable telecommuting and virtual collaboration schemes. However, it has also magnified social protection issues faced by online or platform workers, including the lack of security benefits and protection entitlements. This was according to Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) National Planning and...

Chads Idriss Deby, a longstanding French ally in the troubled Sahel Issued on: 20/04/2021 - 13:58 In this April 20, 2016 file photo, then Chadian president Idriss Déby at a meeting with then US Ambassador to the UN Samantha Power at the presidential palace in NDjamena, Chad, Wednesday, April 20, 2016. © Andrew Harnik, AP 4 min Idriss Deby Itno, who was on course for a sixth term as Chads president before he died from injuries su...

Idriss Deby, who was on course for a sixth term as Chad’s president before he died from injuries sustained in battle, had carved out a reputation as the West’s stalwart ally in the Sahel – despite accusations of authoritarianism. The 68-year-old son of a herder would have been one of the longest-serving leaders in the world, after provisional results showed him winning re-election this week. But his shock death cut his 30-year political career short and will likely throw Chadian politics ...