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Wealthy west has little excuse after finally waking up to global debt crisis

As recent banking failures in US and Europe show, rich countries can act quickly when they want to

The Guardian - UK · Apr 13, 2023

UN Ship Due to Prevent Oil Spill from Yemen’s Safer Departs for Red Sea

A supertanker bought by the United Nations to remove oil from a ship abandoned off Yemen's coast departed China on Thursday, the UN announced, calling it a "significant" step in efforts to prevent a major spill. The UN Development Program (UNDP) had in March purchased the crude carrier Nautica to…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Apr 7, 2023

UN signs deal to salvage stranded oil from tanker off Yemen

The United Nations says it has signed an agreement to purchase a very large vessel that can transfer more than 1 million barrels of crude now stranded in a rusting old tanker off the coast of war-torn Yemen

The Independent UK · Mar 9, 2023

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Least Developed Countries summit kicks off in Doha

The 5th Least Developed Countries summit started in Qatar's capital with a top UN official warning that "urgent" measures are needed to help 52 countries facing debt repayment problems that put some at risk of default.

Radio France Internationale · Mar 5, 2023

New Recruits to Extremist Groups Expected to Surge in Africa

More people are joining terrorist groups in Africa, which draws questions on its reasons, said a new report by the UN's international development agency. The report underscored the importance of economic factors as drivers of recruitment. Meanwhile, experts expected recruitment to increase as the African governments and international powers fail…

Asharq Al-Awsat · Feb 9, 2023

Urgent need for international focus on drivers of extremist violence, UNDP says

In tonight's edition: We speak to Achim Steiner, the UNDP's administrator, about the urgent need for international focus on the drivers that lead to violent extremism. In Ghana, there are fears of a spillover in violence from Burkina Faso. Meanwhile in the Malian capital Bamako, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov…

France 24 · Feb 8, 2023

Unemployment's darkest legacy is that it can pave the way for extremism and terrorism

High unemployment can drag down a country’s economy, but it can also provide kindling to extremist movements.

Fortune · Feb 7, 2023

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Failing states make Africa terrorism epicenter, UN says

The inability of states to provide basic services and security and create jobs across much of Africa, ranging from the Sahel zone in the west to Somalia in the east and Mozambique in the south has made the continent the global epicenter of extremist violence, the United Nations Development Programme…

Tribune News Service · Feb 7, 2023

Religion is not the driving force behind recruitment to jihadist groups says UN

Poverty and the prospect of better-paid work, rather than ideology, are what fuel recruitment to jihadist and other violent groups in Africa, the United Nations said Tuesday.

Radio France Internationale · Feb 7, 2023

Sub-Saharan Africa is 'new epicenter' of extremism, says UN

A new report by the U.N.’s international development agency says that sub-Saharan Africa is the new global epicenter of violent Islamic extremism and that people are increasingly joining as a result of economic factors and less by religious ones

The Independent UK · Feb 7, 2023

Rights abuses often ‘tipping point’ for extremist recruitment, UN study finds

Quality education and exposure to different cultures identified as key preventive factors in African survey

The Guardian - UK · Feb 7, 2023

China’s future to AI and jobs: five big questions from Davos

From the threat of AI weaponising spam to a trade war sparked by green subsidies, the taxing topics at this year’s World Economic Forum

The Guardian - UK · Jan 20, 2023

First Thing: Rift in Trump’s inner circle over 2024 campaign announcement

With the ex-president facing heat for the GOP’s midterm washout, there is conflict over whether he should delay next week’s event. Plus, the latest on Cop27

The Guardian - UK · Nov 11, 2022

Climate and debt crises converge for half of the world's poorest

Countries home to half of the world's poorest people are facing a systemic debt crisis that will significantly diminish their ability to fight the impacts of climate change, a UN report warned on Tuesday.

Radio France Internationale · Oct 11, 2022

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Asharq Al-Awsat · Oct 11, 2022

UN: 54 Poor Nations Urgently Need Debt Relief

Cascading global crises have left 54 countries -- home to more than half of the world's poorest people -- in dire need of debt relief, the UN said Tuesday. In a new report, the United Nations Development Program warned that dozens of developing nations were facing a rapidly deepening debt…

Radio France Internationale · Sep 8, 2022

Decades of human progress set back by global crises, UN warns

A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them Covid-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

The Hindu · Sep 8, 2022

India ranks 132 in UNDP's Human Development Index, amid a global fall

Drop in score is in line with the global trend since the outbreak of COVID-19

ABC News · Sep 8, 2022

UN report says human development was set back 5 years by COVID-19 and other crises

A new report from the United Nations argues that an unprecedented array of crises — chiefly among them COVID-19 — has set human progress back five years and fuelled a global wave of uncertainty.

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Al Jazeera · Sep 8, 2022

Human progress retreats to 2016 levels by COVID, other crises: UN

UNDP says the Human Development Index has declined for two straight years for the first time in its history.

Asharq Al-Awsat · Sep 8, 2022

UN Report: Human Development Set Back 5 Years by Covid, Other Crises

A United Nations report published Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them Covid-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty. The UN Development Program (UNDP) announced that for the first time since it was created over 30 years ago,…

Bangkok Post · Sep 8, 2022

Human development set back 5 years by Covid, other crises - UN report

UNITED NATIONS: A United Nations report published on Thursday argues that an unprecedented array of crises, chiefly among them Covid-19, has set human progress back five years and fueled a global wave of uncertainty.

The Independent UK · Jul 7, 2022

Ukraine war helps push 71 million into poverty due to soaring food and oil prices, UN says

The United Nations Development Programme warns the cost of living impact ‘almost without precedent in a generation’

Al Jazeera · Jul 7, 2022

Inflation plunged 71 million into poverty since Ukraine war

UN Development Programme report finds surge in commodity prices hitting parts of world’s regions hard.

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jul 7, 2022

Inflation Pushed 71M People Into Poverty Since Ukraine War

A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Program said in a report Thursday. The UNDP estimates that 51.6 million more people fell…

The Independent UK · Jul 7, 2022

Inflation pushed 71M people into poverty since Ukraine war

A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia’s war in Ukraine

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