BOOKS: RUSSELL BRAND’S LATEST BOOK REFLECTS UPON THE IMPORTANT ROLE MENTORS PLAY IN OUR LIFE
NILS VON KALM reviews Russell Brand’s follow-up to his earlier book, ‘Recovery’…
Philippine farmers struggle to rebuild lives after typhoon decimates crops
Thomson Reuters Foundation The destruction of crops by a powerful typhoon will push people in the Philippines deeper into poverty and prolong recovery efforts, aid agencies said as they called for more assistance for farmers. Typhoon Mangkhut tore across the northern part of the Philippines just over a week ago, wrecking homes and triggering landslides […]
ESSAY: PUERTO RICO HAS NOT RECOVERED FROM HURRICANE MARIA
A year after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, LAUREN LLUVERAS, of the University of Texas, writes about how, in an article first published on The Conversation, the US territory remains devastated…
HAITI: UN CRITICISED FOR FAILING ON PROMISE TO HELP CHOLERA VICTIMS
ANASTASIA MOLONEY, of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports on the fight against cholera in Haiti in the aftermath of the devastating 2010 earthquake…