Twenty million people across Africa and the Middle East are currently facing famine from a prolonged drought. Some affected countries, including Somalia, South Sudan, and Yemen, have more in common than...
Date: June 6, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Passionate entrepreneurs and technologists from Pakistan and across the globe converged in one place to share expertise, exchange knowledge, and to discover and support the next big idea among emerging...
Date: May 17, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Cairo, Egypt, May 14, 2017— The importance of water management for sustainable development and stability in the Middle East and North Africa is at the heart of the League of Arab States’ conference on...
Date: May 14, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Also Available in: دری | پښتوEconomic, social progress of last 15 years is at risk KABUL, May 8, 2017— Poverty and unemployment in Afghanistan rose in the three years following the start of international...
Date: May 8, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Signaling a great urgency to respond to the current famine and famine risks, particularly in the Middle East and parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, United Nations Secretary General António Guterres and World...
Date: April 22, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
Dame Shirley Pearce, Director David Webb, distinguished faculty, students, and guests. Thank you for hosting me this evening. It’s a great honor to be here with you, and with representatives from our close...
Date: April 11, 2017
Type: Speeches and Transcripts
Language: English
Today we celebrate World Water Day around the world. In Marseille, young people are coming together to promote innovative projects by entrepreneurs for recycling water in households, agriculture,...
Date: March 22, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
ABUJA, March 20, 2017—The World Bank’s Board today approved a $200 million credit to support the Government of Nigeria’s response to the acute humanitarian and forced-displacement crisis triggered...
Date: March 20, 2017
Type: Press Release
Language: English
N'DJAMENA, March 17, 2017−Some 8,000 people are desperately trying to rebuild their lives in the Dar es Salaam refugee camp located along the banks of Lake Chad in the town of Baga Sola. Dispersed...
Date: March 17, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Two billion people now live in countries where development outcomes are affected by fragility, conflict, and violence. By 2030, 46% of the global poor could live in fragile and conflict-affected...
Date: January 26, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
WASHINGTON, January 10, 2017 — Every morning, a 40-something-year-old woman lays out fish on one of Lake Tanganyika’s beaches. Once it has dried, she will sell it in Kalemie, a town a few miles...
Date: January 10, 2017
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Amina H. Aban, 28, is the daughter of a well-known rebel commander of the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF). She met her father just three times before he was killed in combat; she was in Grade Six...
Date: November 1, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Abdul Wahab Dagundol became a Black Shirt—an armed militia group that was a precursor to the Moro National Liberation Front—when he was 16 years old. Like hundreds of others, he joined what would become...
Date: November 1, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Nhor Momin, 37, lives with her 9-year-old son in the municipality of Labangan, southern Mindanao. Like much of Mindanao, Labangan has long-suffered from various forms of conflict. In the 1970s, the area...
Date: November 1, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Solomon Islander Patterson Sikua vividly remembers the day that The Tensions came to his community. He was a Grade Six student in Kollina, a village in the remote Weathercoast region on the south side...
Date: November 1, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Charles Maeuta, 31 and the only one of his siblings still single, is worried about the future. He knows that on the Solomon Islands, someone like him – unemployed, a vocational school dropout – is unable...
Date: November 1, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Bernadette Tahiseu lives with her husband and nine children, along with four infant grandchildren, in a single thatched hut with walls made of tarpaulin and dried palm leaves. At 43, she and her husband...
Date: November 1, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Andrew Fioga remembers the good times as well as the bad in his homeland of the Solomon Islands. Born on the island of Guadalcanal in 1965 to ethnic Malaitan parents, he describes an earlier life of “nothing...
Date: November 1, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
Mindanao, Philippines - It’s late in the afternoon. Nhor Momin stands by the water faucets. Satisfied no more customers are coming to collect water, she turns off the taps, locking them in place...
Date: October 31, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
N'DJAMENA, October 31, 2016 – In Gondjé, a large refugee camp lost in the forest not far from Goré, Daniel Debah has made a name for himself as the president of Seed Producers, an association certified...
Date: October 31, 2016
Type: Feature Story
Language: English
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