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: The Politics of the Hangman's Noose - Judge, Jury & Executioner
A spike in state-sanctioned executions worldwide - including in Iran, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and more recently Myanmar - has triggered strong condemnations from the United… Read more »
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
Uganda: Slow Food, Accelerating Biodiversity in the Field and On Our Plates
Edward Mukiibi was forced to do agriculture at school as punishment for misbehaviour. Read more »
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 »
August 01, 2022
Malawi: Climate Change Is Putting Women & Girls At Greater Risk of Sexual Violence #AfricaClimateCrisis
It is often those least responsible for causing climate change that suffer the most from the impacts. And such is the case with women and girls in Malawi - one of the world's… Read more »
July 29, 2022
Zimbabwe: Unsung Living HIV/Aids Hero Spreads Message of Hope
In 2001, when Reki Jimu was 30 years old, his wife died aged 27. Read more »
July 28, 2022
Nigeria: Surviving the Food Crisis in North-East Nigeria
Today in north-east Nigeria, millions of people are facing the painful consequences of a deteriorating food security and nutrition crisis. Food insecurity means not knowing when or… Read more »
Africa: The World Was Already Broken. Shall Ukrainian Cereals Fix It Up?
A wide majority, including the United States, has cheered the 22 July Turkey-brooked agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resumen cereals and fertilisers exports from both… Read more »
July 26, 2022
Congo-Kinshasa: Both UK & Congo Think They're Climate Leaders - COP26's Fallout Shows How Far Adrift They Are
The writer is the International Project Leader for the Congo Basin Forest, Greenpeace Africa Read more »
Africa: Africa Taken for 'Neo-Colonial' Ride
Like so many others, Africans have long been misled. Alleged progress under imperialism has long been used to legitimize exploitation. Meanwhile, Western colonial powers have been… Read more »
July 25, 2022
Kenya: Unleashing Mangrove Superpower Through Soft Coastal Engineering
The swish of calm waters followed by unexpectedly high tides and violent waves is now too familiar for the fisher community along Kenya's 1,420-kilometer Indian Ocean coastline. Read more »
West Africa: An Integrated Regional Response for the Sahel Crisis
Benoit Thierry, is Sahel Office Director of International Fund for Agriculture Development, Dakar Read more »
Africa: We're On the Cusp of the Most Catastrophic Food Crisis in 50 Years - Where Is the Global Response?
A growing mountain of data and analysis points to an unprecedented global crisis in the making, due to the convergence of "Four Cs" (Conflict, Covid, Climate and Costs). Read more »
July 22, 2022
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Turns to Boreholes Amid Groundwater Level Concerns #AfricaClimateCrisis
Faced with cyclical droughts and low water levels in supply dams, Zimbabwe is turning to boreholes for relief, raising concerns about already precarious groundwater levels across… Read more »
July 21, 2022
Africa: 'The Africa We Want Is Still Within Reach'
Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United nations, in an address to the Joint High Level Dialogue on Africa, 20 July 2022. Read more »
East Africa: East African Countries Seek Cross-Border Cooperation to Combat Wildlife Trafficking
For many years, East African countries were considered wildlife trafficking hotspots. Now conservation organisations have started to mobilise all stakeholders to combat the illegal… Read more »
July 19, 2022
Uganda: Smallholder Farmers Recruit Black Soldier Fly for Green Fertiliser
The conflict in Ukraine has led to an increase in fertiliser prices in Uganda and neighbouring Kenya. Amidst the shortages, some farmers are shifting to a more sustainable way of… 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 »
Africa: A New World Order Is Dawning - but Will It Be Liberal or Illiberal?
With the invasion of Ukraine, Russia effectively destroyed the European peace order. Now, Europe needs to find ways to contain its aggressive neighbour, while its traditional… Read more »
South Africa: Xenophobia - Too Black... or Just Too Poor?
South Africa, the home land of the late giant fighter against Apartheid, racism and discrimination - Nelson Mandela "Mandiba", is already 'on the precipice of explosive xenophobic… Read more »
July 13, 2022
Africa: Food Security - We Are Still Going Backwards
This is an op-ed by Mario Lubetkin, FAO Assistant Director-General and designated FAO Regional Representative for Latin America and the Caribbean (1 August 2022) Read more »
Africa: News Fatigue, Anti-Vax and Wars
Nothing is so firmly believed as what is least known. - Michel de Montaigne Read more »
July 12, 2022
Africa: Aid for Power in New Cold War
Long a means for powerful nations to influence developing countries, development finance has gained renewed significance in the new Cold War. Unlike during the US-Soviet Cold War,… Read more »
July 11, 2022
Africa: What Future for a World of 8 Billion?
The writer is Director, Population Division of the United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. Read more »