News headlines in February 2024, page 9

  1. Snowless Winter and a Climate Crisis: Kashmir's 'Unprecedented' Weather

    - Inter Press Service

    SRINAGAR, India, Feb 20 (IPS) - Abdul Gani Malik, a 75-year-old goldsmith living in Kashmir’s capital, Srinagar, has witnessed eras of tranquility and turbulence in the Himalayan region. What he has not seen, however, is a snowless Kashmir during the winter.

  2. INTERVIEW: AI Expert Warns of 'Digital Colonization' in Africa

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Feb 20 (IPS) - Artificial intelligence (AI) is ripe to help resolve certain major problems in Africa, from farming to the health sector, but Senegalese expert Seydina Moussa Ndiaye is warning of a new “colonization” of the continent by this new technology if foreign companies continue to feed on African data without involving local actors.

  3. Climate-affected Madagascar adapts to new reality: A Resident Coordinator blog

    - UN News

    People living in Madagascar are learning to adapt to rapidly altering climatic conditions in what is said to be the fourth most climate change affected country worldwide; that’s according to the UN Resident Coordinatorthe most senior UN official in the Indian Ocean island nation.

  4. DR Congo: Fighting threatens stability of entire region, envoy warns

    - UN News

    In the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), fighting between the M23 armed group and national forces has further compounded the dire humanitarian situation in the east, the head of the UN Mission in the country, MONUSCO, said on Tuesday.

  5. UN allocates $100 million for underfunded emergencies

    - UN News

    The UN’s top relief official on Tuesday released $100 million from the Organization’s core humanitarian emergency fund to support underfunded aid operations in seven countries in Africa, the Middle East and the Americas.

  6. World News in Brief: Papua New Guinea violence, Ukraine’s displaced, $2.6 billion DR Congo appeal

    - UN News

    The Government of Papua New Guinea must effectively address escalating tribal violence, the UN human rights office, OHCHR, said on Tuesday.

  7. Gazans ‘hanging by a thread’, warns WFP

    - UN News

    The UN emergency food relief agency (WFP) warned that Gaza is “hanging by a thread”, calling for urgent access to allow it to reach the hundreds of thousands of Palestinians on the verge of famine.

  8. UPDATING LIVE: US vetoes Algerian resolution demanding immediate ceasefire in Gaza

    - UN News

    The Security Council is meeting in New York on Gaza, where the United States has vetoed the latest resolution, put forward on behalf of Arab States by Algeria, demanding “an immediate humanitarian ceasefire that must be respected by all parties”. Follow all our live coverage here of another day of high stakes diplomacy.

  9. UN agencies sound alarm over renewed clashes in eastern DR Congo

    - UN News

    Amid reports of a renewed escalation of hostilities in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), the UN peacekeeping mission in the country has called on the M23 rebels to cease its offensive, the UN Spokesperson said on Monday as the Security Council prepares to meet on Tuesday at 3 PM New York time to discuss the situation.

  10. Forced Migration Grows, Justice Withers, Say Activists at World Social Forum

    - Inter Press Service

    KATHMANDU, Feb 19 (IPS) - As involuntary migration rises around the world, partly in response to the impacts of climate change, justice for those leaving their homes and families to earn a living is largely missing, said activists meeting at the World Social Forum (WSF) in Kathmandu on Sunday.

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