A third of the world remains totally unvaccinated against COVID: Tedros

A third of the world’s population has yet to receive a single dose of COVID-19 vaccine, including a shocking 83 per cent of all Africans, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday.

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Nine in 10 African nations set to miss urgent COVID vaccination goal

10 Jun 2021

Nine in 10 African nations look set to miss the September target of vaccinating 10 per cent of their populations against COVID-19, the World Health Organization (WHO), said on Thursday.

Adapt or starve: COP27 spotlights agriculture challenges and solutions in the face of climate change

12 Nov 2022

Small-scale farmers from developing countries produce one-third of the world’s food, yet they only receive 1.7 per cent of climate finance even as they are forced to cope with droughts, floods, cyclones and other disasters.

Pandemic ‘rolled back’ sustainable development funding for weak economies: UNCTAD

21 Jun 2021

Financial assistance to the world’s 83 weakest economies fell by 15 per cent in 2020, to $35 billion as a direct result of the COVID-19 pandemic, UN trade and development experts UNCTAD said on Monday.