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The Forgotten Triumph of Rinderpest Eradication, and the Cost of Ignoring Its Lesson

BRUSSELS, Belgium, June 27 (IPS) - Animal disease is no longer a distant concern for farmers and veterinarians alone. It...

AI Will Destabilize Jobs, the Middle Class and the Welfare State Unless We Act in Time

NEW YORK, June 26 (IPS) - Artificial intelligence (AI) promises remarkable gains in productivity, science, medicine and education. But it...

Colombia’s next President: A Reckoning for Peace, Climate and Human Rights

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, June 26 (IPS) - On 21 June Colombians made their choice. By the narrowest of margins, Abelardo de...

Aid Is Falling Fast. What Can African Countries Do?

WASHINGTON DC, June 26 (IPS) - For decades, official development assistance has been a central pillar of financing in sub-Saharan...

From Nets to Numbers: How Kenya’s Small-Scale Fishers Use Data to Save Their Ocean

WASINI, Kenya, June 26 (IPS) - As the afternoon sun casts a golden glow over Mukwiro village on Wasini Island...