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JEAN-PIERRE:  Good afternoon, everybody. Q    Good afternoon!  (Laughter.) JEAN-PIERRE:  I’m like, “Geez, I’m all by myself up here.”  (Laughter.)  Okay. So, we have another special guest joining us today, Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo, who is here to highlight how the Bipartisan Infrastructure Deal will help close the digital divide in America for more than 30 […]

KAMPALA — A report by Amnesty International documents several violent forced evictions in Uganda of the Benet indigenous people. Affected members of the community narrate details of the eviction from their ancestral land saying it took place without notice and they are asking the Ugandan government to compensate them.   More than a decade after […]

FSNWG issued a food security alert calling for immediate action in response to expectations of rising food and nutrition insecurity linked to consecutive poor rainy seasons and forecasts for another poor season between October and December 2021 across parts of the Horn of Africa.   Since this alert was published, the following updates have become […]

ROME — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that the number of people teetering on the edge of famine (IPC4/Emergency or worse) in 43 countries has risen to 45 million, as acute hunger spikes around the world. This number has risen from 42 million earlier in the year and 27 million in […]

Mekelle, Tigray – “They have saved my life and that of my daughter. I stayed under their care the whole night and delivered my baby girl safely,” says Selam, the first mother to deliver at the camp for internally displaced persons — Sabacare 4 — in Mekelle, Tigray.   After living for months in a […]

As an accountability tool, the Regional SRHR Scorecard has been developed to track progress in sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR) in the African Region. It was informed by global, regional and national commitments and is intended to become the tool for peer review and accountability. It will be used to monitor achievements of […]