SIDS go forward with ‘new sense of hope, solidarity and determination’

adminMay 30, 2024September 20, 202409 mins

Speaking at the closing of the Fourth International Conference on Small Island States (SIDS4), Amina Mohammed stressed that despite increasingly existential threats to SIDS, “we do have reasons for hope and optimism”. More than 20 world leaders and senior ministers from over 100 nations joined close to 4,000 other participants on the lush campus of…

SIDS drowning in debt and ‘running on empty’, warns Guterres in Antigua

adminMay 28, 2024September 20, 2024011 mins

That’s the warning from UN Secretary-General António Guterres on Day Two of the pivotal Fourth International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS4) taking place in the Caribbean twin island nation of Antigua and Barbuda this week. The 39 States known collectively as SIDS have been uniquely vulnerable to the trifecta of COVID – which…