Armed gangs in Haiti demanding the prime minister’s resignation have attacked two prisons, allowing thousands of inmates to escape, leaving dozens dead and wounded.
The situation in Haiti It seems to be getting more and more complicated. Recently, it was learned that the prime minister, Ariel Henrywill resign from his position after “the establishment of a transitional presidential council and the appointment of an interim prime minister.” The decision was adopted after
Haiti, a Caribbean nation with a long history of upheaval, is enduring one of its worst periods of chaos. Gangs have shut down the airport; looted seaports, public buildings and shops; and attacked nearly a dozen police stations. Roads are blocked, cutting off the food
Homicide rates are skyrocketing in Ecuador with official figures recording a death count of 4,800 in 2022. This is according to data from the Ecuadorian Ministry of Interior, published by the Rio de Janeiro based think tank, the Igarapé Institute. According to the Ecuadorian government’s latest estimates
Brazil’s stewardship of the world’s largest tropical forest has long ignited acrimony
The artificial intelligence race is gathering pace, and the stakes could not be higher.
Whether it was gold, diamonds, or iron, the history of Brazil has been shaped for centuries by the hunt for minerals.
If Chinese lending declines, sub-Saharan Africa’s ability to raise financing will be deeply affected.
Even before taking office in January 2023, Brazil’s president Luiz Inácio Lula de Silva promised to end illegal deforestation in the Amazon.
Illegal deforestation, wildcat mining, drug trafficking, and lethal violence: Name your scourge and the Amazon Basin seldom disappoints.
Nicaragua’s crackdown on the political opposition, free press, and civil society is intensifying.
Recent months may well be remembered as the moment when predictive artificial intelligence went mainstream.
Cybercrime is high on the agenda of nation states, corporations and international organizations everywhere.
In the years leading-up to the outbreak of genocide in Darfur, in 2003, median rainfall plummeted by a third.
Between July 25 and 29, UN member states gathered in New York for the third substantive session of the Open-Ended Working Group on the security in and of information and communications technologies (OEWG)
If cities are where the future happens first, then the future came early to Bogota
It can seem like climate change affects all communities equally
It all began with a bureaucratic assignment on Jan. 12, 1830.
The world is confronting multiple intersecting geopolitical events with highly unpredictable consequences
Any hope of keeping global temperatures under 2C depends on the acceleration of radical climate action – including in the world’s forests.
Ravaged by a pandemic, a brutal war in Europe, and rising social unrest over unaffordable food and fuel, the world looks anything but safe
Scholars and political leaders worldwide are fretting over the complex connections between climate and insecurity
Ilona Szabó de Carvalho, Co-Founder and President, Igarapé Institute, has spent most of her life working to build coalitions for collective action and says it will take broad and diverse networks of people to tackle the biggest challenges in the world.
Once the epicenter of the global trade in gold, illegal mining is once again surging across the Amazon.
With the devastating effects of climate change already bearing down on the world’s urban areas, ambitious decarbonization and adaptation promises from municipal leaders could not come soon enough
Jutting out from the second-largest continent, the Horn of Africa is one of the world’s regions most vulnerable to climate change
More than one-fourth of the world’s population lives in conditions of insecurity because of high levels of crime and violence, especially in the Global South
The COP26 in Glasgow may be the world’s last best chance to confront the most pressing global catastrophic risk of our time
Prospect and Cast from Clay, this year’s awards partners, are pleased to announce the shortlist for the 2021 Think Tank Awards
Cities are the front line of climate change as perpetrators, victims, and problem-solvers
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