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[allAfrica] On World Population Day, we are often asked to look at numbers such as how many people we are, how fast we are growing, and what our population will need in the years ahead. They should help us understand the conditions into which people are born, the systems that shape their health and opportunity, and the futures they are able to build.

The organization found its new leader after a three-month search The post New CEO announced for National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition appeared first on ICT.

“What’s the point of having a party when you feel like there’s a death, or there are people in your family you know are not happy?” The post America’s 250th fun for some Haitian New Yorkers, a fail for others  appeared first on The Haitian Times.

KATHMANDU — The animal Brian Houghton Hodgson saw looked almost like a pangolin, but it didn’t tick all the boxes. It had amor-like scales from head to tail, just as the French zoologist Georges Cuvier had earlier described. But it also had ears and far more scales across its trunk than any recorded species. The […]

A round-up of news from around the region, including a new administrator in Tokelau.

Mental health problems during pregnancy and after child birth are responsible for six percent of maternal deaths in Nepal and rank as the second leading cause, according to a National Statistics Office report.

The lion at the animal sanctuary after rescue.—Dawn KARACHI: A lion whose distress image went viral on social media after being discovered in a private zoo in Nazimabad has been rescued and safely moved to an animal sanctuary, it emerged on Saturday. “The lion was in bad shape so we had to get him out of the private zoo first in an emergency. There are still other animals that are in line to

A U.S. decision to cut off funding for HIV projects in South Africa has been condemned amid warnings it could be “catastrophic” for efforts to control the disease in the country. At the start of last year, the White House had announced massive cuts to U.S. foreign aid, including to South Africa, significantly impacting some […]

Once sustained by abundant yarsagumba and other medicinal herbs, people in high altitude settlements are now on the brink as indiscriminate harvesting practices have rapidly depleted alpine stocks.