'Unseen' News and Views – By Baher Kamal & The Like
31 December 2019 (UN News)* — The world will welcome more than 392,000 babies on New Year’s Day, according to estimates from the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
1 January 2020 (UN News)* — The world will need an additional nine million nurses and midwives to achieve the commitment of providing all people with access to health care by 2030, the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned.
At the beginning of the year, two of Ndzimandze’s grandchildren were bitten by Anopheles arabiensis mosquitoes, one of the key vectors of malaria in sub-Saharan Africa. The children showed all the usual symptoms of the disease, but when Ndzimandze brought them to the closest clinic they were misdiagnosed.
Nature-based solutions can protect our natural resources and provide a sustainable pathway to food security
Nature-based solutions can help address the planet’s water challenges and unearth sustainable alternatives to producing our food. ©Shutterstock.com/M2020
ROME (FAO)* — Multiple stresses on our natural resources are making it harder and harder to produce our food. Farmers and food producers are having to contend with a climate that is becoming more unpredictable by the day, along with the consequences it brings such as water scarcity and soil degradation, just to name a few.
1 January 2020 (Wall Street International)* — “Security starts and relies with people” end of the story. After 10 years in IT Security, I’ve learned that security problems typically start with people, and almost nobody outside the traditional group of expertise seems to care about it.
Cybersecurity |Image from Wall Street International.
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