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Cities & Climate change: Time to stop mindless urbanisation

Cities & Climate change: Time to stop mindless urbanisation

December 6, 2022

In 1920, Kinshasa, the capital of Democratic Republic of Congo, was a small town that counted barely 20,000 people. Exactly 130 years later, in 2050, the city is expected to be the fourth largest in the world, with 35 million inhabitants, a number that will swell to over 83 milli...

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Eliminating hunger by 2030 need not be a lost cause

Eliminating hunger by 2030 need not be a lost cause

November 10, 2022

Findings in the latest report by Global Hunger Index on the situation of hunger worldwide should not have been a surprise most experts had been warning that hunger was becoming more widespread due to numerous factors like drop in harvests due to climate change, the Ukraine war an...

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COP27 should be all about Climate Justice

COP27 should be all about Climate Justice

October 31, 2022

Never in the history of UN’s Climate Change Conference African continent has been so well prepared.  On the eve of the global meet, COP 27, to be held at Red Sea resort city of Sharm El Sheikh, in Egypt, in about a week, the delegates from African countries are well set to mak...

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Climate Action Network seeks climate justice for Africa at CoP 27

Climate Action Network seeks climate justice for Africa at CoP 27

October 17, 2022

One of the most divisive issues that is set to dominate the discussions when global leaders assemble in the Egyptian Red Sea resort town of Sharm El Sheikh would be climate finance. For over a decade, the rich world, that has been responsible for an overwhelming proportion of tot...

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Cop-27 at Sharm El Sheikh is no guarantee for Africa

Cop-27 at Sharm El Sheikh is no guarantee for Africa

October 14, 2022

At the ongoing United Nations General Assembly’s annual sittings in New York, there are several issues that have been on the centre-stage, ranging from of course the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the energy and food crisis which is partly linked to the conflict, ...

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20 years on, African Union has failed Africa

20 years on, African Union has failed Africa

May 24, 2022

The last two years have not been very kind to Africa. It is not just the Covid-19 pandemic, which of course hit the continent hard. Vaccination rates across the continent continue to languish well below the world average and many African nations have managed to vaccinate only a f...

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Repair, not replace: Key to tackling climate change

Repair, not replace: Key to tackling climate change

March 29, 2022

Thirungia region in Germany is offering residents up to 100 Euros for not throwing away their smartphones, but repair them and continue to use them. Similar repair bonus is also available for other consumer electronic items like laptops and domestic appliances. The scheme is soon...

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Belarus-Poland standoff, Channel tragedy put focus on EU’s poor migrant policy

Belarus-Poland standoff, Channel tragedy put focus on EU’s poor migrant policy

December 2, 2021

Six years after it was faced with a crippling flow of migrants, from war-hit and natural disaster affected parts of Middle East and South Asia, Europe is having a tough time again with migrants. In the worst-ever such incident in decades, dozens drowned in the English Channel as ...

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Vaccine passports: Bad idea with terrible timing traumatises tourism industry

Vaccine passports: Bad idea with terrible timing traumatises tourism industry

August 24, 2021

For a long while now, international travellers have been used to finding different queues at immigration counters at various airports, especially in developed world, queues that classify arrivals by origin of their country. Most of the rich countries are clubbed together and then...

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Feroz Shah Kotla: Of djinns, faith and history

Feroz Shah Kotla: Of djinns, faith and history

July 24, 2021

Feroz Shah Kotla fort was built by Sultan Feroz Shah Tughlaq in 1354, as the core of the new imperial capital of Firozabad in today’s south Delhi. However, with change of dynasties, Kotla fell into obscurity and it was only in the latter half of 20th century that it became rele...

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Democracy in Africa

Democracy in Africa

April 16, 2019

After several stumbles, democracy seems to be advancing in Africa again. Fragile yet taking baby steps ahead. The world needs to encourage this.

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Race for Space

Race for Space

March 18, 2019

Instead of cooperation for benefits of the humanity, the exploration of the space has turned into an intensive competition with national interests superceding global ones.

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