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First Person: ‘Nepal is ready for its next chapter’

·March 12, 2023·5 min read

There are currently 46 so-called Least Developed Countries (LDCs), a United Nations designation. They have been participating in an international conference in Doha, Qatar, focused on how best to support their development and future graduation from the LDC group. Subharsh Nepali (left) and colleagues (file) “In the 1970s, when Nepal...

First Person: Vulnerable Ukrainian farmers plough a self-sufficient furrow

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·March 10, 2023·4 min read

Pierre Vauthier is the chief of office for the FAO in Ukraine. He told UN News how the FAO team in the country – around 100 staff members, mostly Ukrainian specialists in agriculture-related areas – was dispersed throughout the country, in often difficult working conditions. “One of the difficulties we...

First Person: Hatching a plan for success in rural Gambia

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·February 26, 2023·5 min read

Guidom Sabally’s high school education was cut short because his family could no longer afford school fees. For many years, he struggled to find work as an unskilled labourer. Now in his 40s, Mr. Sabally was able to take up the opportunity of free technical training, provided by a UN-led...

First Person: The towns in Ukraine which no longer exist

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·February 20, 2023·3 min read

Johannes Fromholt is currently near the frontline in Donetsk Oblast and has been describing the support the UN is providing. “I am currently in Kurakhove, which is close to the frontline. We see heavy fighting, which has intensified even in the past week. We came here as part of a...

First Person: Türkiye earthquake – 60 seconds of terror

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·February 8, 2023·3 min read

“Like hundreds of thousands of other people in South-Eastern Türkiye I was fast asleep when the world started to shake. I don’t really know how to describe to anyone who hasn’t felt an earthquake, let alone one of the biggest ever recorded in this region. It’s just completely surreal. The...

First Person: The Liberian police inspector working to end sexual and gender-based violence

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·November 26, 2022·2 min read

“I am in charge of cases pertaining to women and children in Nimba county. The most prevalent cases I handle here are rape, persistent non-support (failure to pay alimony) and domestic violence. Rape is the most commonly reported of these cases. It is a very difficult issue to work on,...

First Person: Saving lives and preventing the spread of cholera in Haiti |

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·November 20, 2022·3 min read

The deadly but treatable disease has been spreading across the country and according to the latest Government figures published on 16 November there have been some 8,100 people admitted to hospital and over 170 deaths. Esterline Dumezil was trained by the Ministry of Public Health and Population and by the...

First Person: One year on from Haiti earthquake, time to return home |

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·August 13, 2022·2 min read

“When the earthquake struck, I had no idea what it was as I had never experienced something so loud and dramatic before. I thought it was an act of God and I was terrified. My whole house was shaking so I rushed outside with my daughter to see what was...

First Person: The honey business owner creating a buzz in northern Uganda |

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·August 6, 2022·4 min read

“I used to work in an office, and people would come to my place of work to sell ‘West Nile honey’, named after the region I come from. I was interested to see that my region was being used as a brand, and discovered that West Nile is one of...

First Person: The Barbadian entrepreneur turning sargassum into money |

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·June 26, 2022·4 min read

In 2014, Mr. Forte started Red Diamond Compost, a biotech business that focuses on research, development, and the commercialization of organic and biologic soil treatment and crop protection solutions made primarily from organic environmental hazards, such as sargassum seaweed. Mr. Forte is recognized as a national and regional expert in...