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A few hours after announcing the ban on three UN agencies working in Somalia for being “enemies of Islam and Muslims,” hardline Somali Islamists of the al Qaeda-inspired Shebab insurgency attacked the agency’s offices. They divested the premises of the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the United Nations Political Office for [...]

Madagascar owns one of the world’s richest biodiversity hotspots. In some of the country’s protected areas, organized groups engaged in illegal logging have been felling ‘valuable rosewood trees and extracting other resources’ mostly from the Marojejy National Park and Masoala National Park. To prove that illegal logging, a major cause [...]

The fight against human trafficking was the subject of the very recent Third Bali Regional Ministerial Conference On People Smuggling, Trafficking In Persons and Related Transnational Crime, held on the Indonesian island of Bali and attended by delegates from over 60 countries. The social malaise has reached unprecedented proportions over the recent [...]

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) report entitled ‘Basic Public Services for 1.3 Billion People’ states that the lives of the Chinese have greatly upgraded in quality. Adult literacy rates are higher. Poverty rates are lower. Most importantly, Chinese people are living longer. The UN admits that what China has exhibited are among [...]