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DUBAI, Dec 09 (IPS) - It is a global catastrophe of astounding proportions that millions of children are on the run today, forcibly displaced from their homes. As conflict and climate change increasingly become the most pressing challenges facing the world now, the number of displaced children has doubled in the last decade alone, reaching a record high of 43.3 million children.

The number of displaced children due to climate change and conflict has doubled in the last decade alone, reaching a record high of 43.3 million children.

A cheaper, faster and more equitable approach to transit could be a path to progress in the U.S.

Global South countries will focus more on what India or China has to offer and not be fixated on the Israel-Gaza war, analysts say.

The Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) Nigeria and ECOWAS, empowered by the German Feminist Development Policy, on Thursday, in Benin

Edo Government on Thursday inaugurated Gender Policy Document as part of efforts to address Gender-Based Violence (GBV) issues and to ensure equity, fairness and justice among genders. Inaugurating the policy in Benin, wife of the state Governor, Mrs Betsy Obaseki, said the gender policy was put in place to correct, sanitise and address inequality and

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Bogotá led the world with innovation in inexpensive mass transit. Its experience shows what it takes to keep progress going.

Government is considering creating yet another parastatal to monitor the large numbers of struggling parastatals. Are these entities a wasteful weight on the budget or cost-effective saviours for service delivery? The World Bank this week didn’t mince its words. MBONGENI MGUNI & TIMOTHY LEWANIKA write

In the 2010s, China rolled out a rapid and widespread electric bus network. Today, China's electric buses are influencing not just the country's EV uptake, but the world's.