August 12, 2022
Africa: The Hunger Factory (II) - the Modern Horsemen of the Apocalypse
While often too quickly attributing -quasi exclusively- the world unprecedented hunger tragedy to the current proxy war in Ukraine, other major causes remain hidden in plain sight. Read more »
August 11, 2022
Africa: The Hunger Factory (I) - The Miracle of the Sudden Rise and Fall of Food Prices
The benchmark for world food commodity prices declined "significantly" in July, with major cereal and vegetable oil prices recording double-digit percentage declines. Read more »
August 09, 2022
Africa: April Fool's Inflation Medicine Threatens Progress
The world economy is on the brink of outright recession, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Ukraine war and sanctions have scuttled recovery from the COVID-19… Read more »
August 10, 2022
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Makes First Journalist Arrests Under Cybersecurity Law
Zimbabwe's press freedom credentials suffered further criticism with the arrest of two journalists from a privately-owned newspaper charged with transmitting "false data messages." Read more »
August 04, 2022
Africa: UN Chief Urges Governments to Tax "Immoral" & Excessive" Oil and Gas Profits
Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in his address to the UN press corps while launching the third brief by the Global Crisis Response Group on Energy. Read more »
August 03, 2022
Africa: Technology Helps Traffickers Hunt Their Victims, Enslave Them, Sell Their Organs
Human beings have proved to be capable of producing innumerable practical inventions while much too often making the worst use of them. Take the case, per example, of how criminal… Read more »
August 02, 2022
Africa: Neo-Colonial Currency Enables French Exploitation
Colonial-style currency board arrangements have enabled continuing imperialist exploitation decades after the end of formal colonial rule. Such neo-colonial monetary systems… Read more »
July 05, 2022
Africa: Weaponizing Free Trade Agreements
Long seen as means to seek advantage on the pretext of providing mutual benefit, free trade agreements (FTAs) may increasingly be used as economic weapons in the emerging new Cold… Read more »
July 04, 2022
Africa: Androids in Human Populations
It is time for countries, especially those with slow growing and ageing human populations, to welcome androids, i.e., humanoid robots with human-like appearance and behavior,… Read more »
June 16, 2022
Congo-Kinshasa: Oil Ministry Accused of Greenwashing
Nine of the 16 oil blocks to be auctioned in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) next month overlap Protected Areas, according to a review of official government maps by… Read more »
June 02, 2022
Africa: Transforming Africa - Just & Equitable Energy Transition
A global transition to lower-carbon energy sources is crucial for our species' survival given the worsening effects of climate change. With many people increasingly advocating for… Read more »
May 31, 2022
Zimbabwe: Xenophobia-Hit Zimbabweans Saving Country's Dead Economy
Two decades ago, Trynos Mahamba left Zimbabwe for the United Kingdom, but back home, he has changed the lives of his relatives. Read more »
May 30, 2022
Africa: Upset With the Opulence of the Rich? but the World's Children Are Paying the Bill
The excesses committed by rich people can be deadly-and in fact they are. Be it about food, energy or overall waste, such excesses have been depleting the world's natural resources… Read more »
May 19, 2022
Africa: Debt Distress in Africa - Problems and Ways Forward
The COVID pandemic has had a profoundly negative impact on Africa's sovereign debt situation. Currently, 22 countries are either in debt distress or at high risk of debt distress. Read more »
May 20, 2022
Africa: Youth Demand a Voice in Call-to-Action On Child Labour
Ashley has vast work experience. She has laboured by the sweat of her brow in the blistering sun on the streets of Guatemala, in the open fields on farmlands and indoors, toiling… Read more »
May 17, 2022
Africa: Child Labour - No Quick End to Children Trapped in Tobacco Production
Despite World Day Against Child Labour launched in 2002 by the International Labour Organization (ILO), little has changed over the past two decades for the millions of children… Read more »
Africa: From Child Laborer to Activist, Tara Banjara Asks World to Pledge to End the Scourge
Tara Banjara was four and a half years old when her parents put her to work on the roads, cleaning the garbage and rubble out of potholes to prepare for construction in Nemdi… Read more »
Africa: When Saviours Are the Problem
Central bank policies have often worsened economic crises instead of resolving them. By raising interest rates in response to inflation, they often exacerbate, rather than mitigate… Read more »
Africa: Africa Expected to Strongly Support Durban Call to Action On Child Labour
Global goals to eradicate child labour will not be achieved without a breakthrough in Africa, where most of the world's 160 million children entrapped in child labour work in rural… Read more »
Africa: Call to Invest 'Serious Resources' in Education, to Stem Tide of Child Labour
"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to eliminate child labour." So said Dennis Sinyolo, Director of Education International's African Regional Office in Accra,… Read more »
May 15, 2022
Africa: Youths' Strident Voices Demand an End to Child Labour
Children's voices took centre stage at the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, which kicked off in Durban, South Africa, on May 15, 2022. Their voices… Read more »
May 13, 2022
Africa: Call to Freedom for Millions of Children Trapped in Child Labour As Global Conference Comes to Africa
Children washing clothes in rivers, begging on the streets, hawking, walking for kilometres in search of water and firewood, their tiny hands competing with older, experienced… Read more »
May 15, 2022
Africa: Alarm Bells for Africa, Child Labour in Agriculture Requires Urgent Action
The Global Estimate on Child Labour estimates 160 million children are in child labour worldwide - an increase of 8.4 million children in the last four years - with millions more… Read more »
May 10, 2022
Africa: Finance Drives World to Stagflation
The world is being pressed by financial interests to raise interest rates, ostensibly to check inflation. After the US Federal Reserve started raising interest rates, more central… Read more »
May 04, 2022
Rwanda: Six Ways Rwanda Is Building Resilient and Sustainable Transport Systems
Over the last decade, Rwanda has invested in building efficient and resilient transport systems. Guided by the country's Green Growth and Climate Resilience Strategy (GGCRS), the… Read more »