GENEVA & NAIROBI, Feb 17 (IPS) - From southern Ethiopia to northern Kenya and Somalia, the most severe drought in the last 40 years is unfolding. It is simply too hot to go to school on an empty stomach, and close to 3 million children are out of school, with an additional 4 million at risk of dropping out entirely across the Horn of Africa.

Read the full story, “Climate Crisis is a Child Crisis and Climate-Resilient Children, Teachers and Schools Must Become Top International Agenda”, on globalissues.org →

Feb 17 (IPS) - An African proverb notes that “when two elephants fight, it is the grass underneath that suffers”. Many states in the global south are, therefore, seeking to avoid getting caught in the middle of any future battles between the US and China. Instead, they are calling for a renewal of the concept of non-alignment. This was an approach employed in the 1950s by newly independent countries to balance between the two ideological power blocs of east and west during the era of the Cold War 

Read the full story, “When Two Elephants Fight: How the Global South Uses Non-Alignment To Avoid Great Power Rivalries”, on globalissues.org →

MADRID, Feb 17 (IPS) - In this world of wars, massive weapons production, sales and use; of sharpening inequalities and deadly climate emergencies, hate speech and its inhumane impact, is being amplified at ‘unprecedented scale’ by new technologies.

Read the full story, “Hate Speech Loads the Gun, Misinformation Pulls the Trigger - And It Is Profitable”, on globalissues.org →