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Deputy President Paul Mashatile says more needs to be done to address the 'youth unemployment ticking time bomb'

This background suggests that Harris’ issues with Novartis should be taken very seriously by the US government.

This background suggests that Harris’ issues with Novartis should be taken very seriously by the US government.

Transforming the way food is produced on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Mauritius could help to fight climate change as well as accelerate progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), according to the UN’s most senior representative in the country. |

Transformative power of food production in Mauritius: A United Nations Resident Coordinator blog

Between 2020 and 2022, Africa experienced six “successful” military coups — two of which were coups within coups.

A new narcotics law in Thailand has meant that people who use drugs are more able to access care for treatment of conditions like HIV, but the virus remains a ‘critical health concern’, according to the UN.

Others will learn from El Salvador’s charismatic president | The Americas

Around 135 million Indians exited ‘multidimensional poverty’, a measure of deprivation beyond money, between 2015-16 and 2019-21, the Niti Aayog says. The basis of calculation is the National Family Health Survey (NFHS). Mint explains:

Adamu* got two years for stealing in Nigeria, Denny is serving five years in Indonesia, and Lauro José dos Santos served a 12-year sentence in Brazil, but ongoing reform efforts rooted in the “Mandela Rules” and a range of UN-supported programmes are helping them and prisoners around the world get a second chance upon their release.