February 23
Africa: The World Social Forum - the Counterweight to the World Economic Forum
This week the 2024 annual meeting of the World Social Forum (WSF) was held in Nepal. There were fifty thousand participants from over 90 countries, exchanging strategies to address… Read more »
February 22
Africa: #unmute - Over 350 Civil Society Organizations Ask for Real Inclusion in UN Summit of the Future Negotiations
A coalition of over 350 civil society organisations part of the #UNmute initiative, shared concerns over the current engagement mechanisms for civil society at the UN -… Read more »
December 22, 2023
Africa: Amidst a Horrendous 2023, Civil Society Is Fighting Back Society
The year 2023 has brought so much tragedy, with incomprehensible loss of lives, whether from wars or devastating 'natural' disasters, while our planet has seen yet more records… Read more »
December 14, 2023
Sudan: Nation's Conflict Needs Civil Society Solutions
It's recently been reported that the two main protagonists of Sudan's current conflict - leaders of the armed forces and militia at war since April - have agreed to face-to-face… Read more »
November 24, 2023
Africa: Africa Will Not Cope With Climate Change Without a Just, Inclusive Energy Transition
A just transition should be viewed as an opportunity to rectify some of the wrongs where women are not prioritised in the energy mix, yet their experience of the impact of climate… Read more »
September 27, 2023
Africa: Don't Count On Public-Private Partnership Solutions
In recent years, public-private partnerships (PPPs) have spread rapidly. While usually profitable for the private partners, PPPs have generally not served the longer-term public… Read more »
September 04, 2023
Africa: Civil Society Organizations Unite to Urge Public Development Banks to Change the Way Development Is Done
In the midst of a complex web of crises, spanning climate change, biodiversity depletion, constraints on civic space and mounting debt burdens, civil society organizations and… Read more »
August 29, 2023
Africa: Digging Africa Deeper Into Hunger - Annual Green Revolution Forum Ignores Widespread Failure of Its Push for Industrialized Agriculture
As the adage goes, when you find yourself stuck in a hole, stop digging. As African leaders and their philanthropic and bilateral sponsors prepare for another glitzy African Green… Read more »
June 24, 2023
South Sudan: President Kiir, Education Cannot Wait Jointly Announce Extended Multi-Year Education Response for Crises-Impacted Sudanese Children
South Sudan is experiencing one of the most severe crises in the world today, causing fragility, instability, and economic stagnation. While a peace agreement was reached in 2018,… Read more »
March 29, 2023
Africa: Civil Society a Vital Force for Change Against the Odds
Brave protests against women's second-class status in Iran; the mass defence of economic rights in the face of a unilateral presidential decision in France; huge mobilisations to… Read more »
March 15, 2023
Africa: Civic Space - the Bedrock of Democracy - Is Scarce & Contested
On 29 and 30 March, the US government, in partnership with Costa Rica, Netherlands, South Korea and Zambia, will co-host the second virtual Summit for Democracy. Several elected… Read more »
November 20, 2022
Africa: Loss and Damage Fund Saves COP27 From the Abyss #AfricaClimateHope
They were on the brink of shipwreck and did not leave happy, but did feel satisfied that they got the best they could. The countries of the global South achieved something decisive… Read more »
Africa: COP27 - Historic Loss and Damage Fund Takes COP27 to the Edge #AfricaClimateHope
After a tense impasse and many hours of negotiations, almost 200 countries struck a deal to set up a loss and damage fund to assist nations worst hit by climate change - a demand… Read more »
October 21, 2022
Africa: Public Development Banks Can't Drag Their Feet When It Comes to Building a Sustainable Future
A coalition of civil society organisations is demanding public development banks (PDBs) to take radical and innovative steps to tackle human rights violations and environmental… Read more »
September 20, 2022
Africa: UN Bans NGOs During High-Level Meetings of World Leaders - Triggering Strong Protests
When world leaders, numbering over 150, make their annual political pilgrimage to address the General Assembly in the third week of September, the security at the world body is… Read more »
July 18, 2022
Uganda: Most Suspended NGOs Still in Limbo
Nearly a year after the Ugandan government suspended 54 NGOs for allegedly operating illegally and failing to file accounts, most civil society organisations (CSOs) remain shut. Read more »
June 27, 2022
Africa: Five Takeaways From the 2022 State of Civil Society Report
2022 is halfway through. It's clear this is a year of immense disruption, mayhem and contestation. Horrendous war crimes are taking place in Ukraine. Read more »
August 05, 2014
Africa: Activists Urge Obama to Act On Extractive Industries Law
As the three-day U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit got underway here Monday, anti-corruption activists urged President Barack Obama to prod a key U.S. agency to issue long-awaited… Read more »
August 13, 2010
Congo-Kinshasa: DRC Farmers Welcome Support
Farmers in the southwestern Democratic Republic of Congo are looking forward to increased production after 16 tractors and 200 ox-drawn carts were distributed across three regions… Read more »
July 17, 2007
Sierra Leone: Women Confront Obstacles in Politics
When Iyesha Josiah told people last year that after the August 2007 general elections, she would stand before them as a new member of parliament for Sierra Leone, they thought she… Read more »
June 29, 2007
Ethiopia: Starbucks Coffee Deal Hailed As Model
A deal between Starbucks and Ethiopia that ends their trademark dispute and offers more benefits to Ethiopian coffee farmers has been hailed as a potential model for other poor… Read more »