poor countries

World Bank announces record $100b support for world’s poorest countries

The World Bank announced Thursday that it had raised close to $24 billion to provide… Read More

Ukraine war: Poor countries face food, energy, finance crises, UN chief says

UNITED NATIONS: Poor countries face economic ruin from simultaneous crises of food, energy and finance… Read More

WHO vaccine scheme risks failure, leaving poor countries no COVID shots until 2024

The World Health Organization’s COVAX programme is the main global scheme to vaccinate people in… Read More

World Bank sees ‘huge willingness’ to suspend debt payments for poorest countries

The World Bank is seeing “a huge willingness” on the part of official bilateral creditors… Read More

Weak systems and funding gaps jeopardize drinking-water in world’s poorest countries

The World Health Organization (WHO) and UN-Water have sounded the alarm for an urgent increase… Read More

Cancer patients in poor countries needlessly denied pain relief: WHO

“Nobody, cancer patients or not cancer patients, should live or die in pain in the… Read More

‘Facebook is for everyone,’ Zuckerberg takes a swipe at Snapchat

SAN JOSE USA: Facebook does innovation to serve "everyone" in the community and not just… Read More