Postcards: Burkina Faso’s vanishing gold boom puts livelihoods at risk
ANNE MIMAULT and HELEN REID, of Reuters, report on the impacts of a Islamist insurgency and political instability in Burkina Faso…
Portrait of poverty: UN visits Tripoli, Lebanon, poorest place on Med
MAYA GEBEILY, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on what United Nations’ special rapporteur on poverty Olivier de Schutter found when he visited Tripoli as part of a fact-finding mission to Lebanon…
In poor area of Tunis, hopes for better times ahead
Tunis, Tunisia Reuters As day breaks over Tunis, Jamila Ghuili takes her two small children out into the streets to scavenge in waste bins for plastic bottles that she sells to buy food for her family. Abandoned by her husband, the single mother lives in a poor part of Omrane Superieur, a neighbourhood of the […]
Vaccine confidence volatile, vulnerable to misinformation, global study finds
London, UKReuters Political polarisation and online misinformation are threatening vaccination programs worldwide, with public trust volatile and varying widely between countries, according to a global vaccine confidence study. The study, which maps trends in vaccine confidence across 149 countries between 2015 and 2019, found that scepticism about the safety of vaccines tended to grow alongside […]
Top worry for young Africans? Jobs and corruption – but green anxieties grow
Johannesburg, South AfricaThomson Reuters Foundation Despite surging climate change threats, from worsening storms to growing water shortages, young Africans see unemployment, corruption and political instability as the most pressing issues facing them, according to a first-of-its-kind survey. But environmental and socioeconomic problems are often inter-related – with corruption and unemployment driving illegal logging, for instance, […]