Jaha Dukureh knows firsthand the barbaric effects of undergoing female genital mutilation/cutting (FGM/C). Now a resident of the United States, she was mutilated as a baby in the Gambia in West Africa. Her sister bled to death after enduring the same procedure. What was done to Dakureh is called ... MORE > >

When the United Nations seeks outside financial assistance either for development needs or to advocate social causes, it invariably turns to the private sector these days. Perhaps the most demanding is Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s appeal to private investors to help the United Nations reach ... MORE > >

A Brussels-based think-tank has warned Venezuela of an impending humanitarian calamity in tandem with growing political instability. While the accelerating deterioration of the South American country’s political crisis is cause for growing concern, says the International Crisis Group, there is a ... MORE > >

Hillary Thompson, aged 62, throws some grains of left-over rice from his last meal, mixed with some beer dregs from his sorghum brew, into a swimming pool that he has converted into a fish pond. “For over a decade, fish farming has become a hobby that has earned me a fortune,” Thompson, who ... MORE > >

Marking a shift away from the growing trend of abandoning sustainable life styles and drifting from traditional customs and routines, Joshua Konkankoh is a Cameroonian farmer with a vision – that the answer to food insecurity lies in sustainable and organic methods of farming. Konkankoh, who ... MORE > >