June 22, 2022
Nigeria: Polio Eradication Will Take Funds and Awareness
For forty days, Kunle Adeyanju - a Nigerian, Rotarian, polio eradication advocate and biker - rode for more than 12,500km from London to Lagos to raise funds for polio eradication. Read more »
Africa: The Sustainable Use of Wild Species Is Important for Everyone
You probably use wild species far more often than you realise. For many people, especially in more developed economies, the use of wild species sounds like something quite removed… Read more »
June 21, 2022
Africa: Tobacco Consumption Slows in the West, Grows in Africa - Researchers
Cigarette smuggling has emerged as one of the most lucrative enterprises between Zimbabwe and South Africa, with border authorities seizing contraband worth millions of dollars in… Read more »
Africa: OECds Regressive World Corporate Income Tax Reform
After decades of rejecting international tax cooperation under multilateral auspices, rich countries have finally agreed. But, by insisting on their own terms, progressive… Read more »
June 20, 2022
Africa: War in Ukraine Triggers New International Non-Alignment Trend
Numerous countries of the developing South are distancing themselves from the contenders in the war in Ukraine, using the debate on the conflict to underscore their independence… Read more »
Africa: The Battle for Covid-19 Vaccines - the Rich Prevail Over the Poor
The 164-member World Trade Organization (WTO) has implicitly rubber-stamped a widely-condemned policy of "vaccine apartheid" which has discriminated the world's poorer nations,… Read more »
Africa: Who Should Be the Next UN Climate Change Head?
Patricia Espinosa's six years as Executive Secretary of the UN's climate change secretariat ends on July 15th. During her time in charge, she has led efforts to operationalize the… Read more »
Africa: Plastic Pollution Will Kill All of Us!
Have you ever watched the movie "Free Willy"? A young boy, Jesse, had an Orca whale friend named Willy. Jesse freed Willy into the wild ocean believing that it was the best… 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 14, 2022
Uganda: Disability Inclusion Lifts Rural Ugandan Families From Poverty
Lawrence Akena was born 32 years ago with microcephaly. Because of his neurological condition, he didn't go to school or benefit from skills training. Read more »
June 10, 2022
Africa: Farmers Adopt Farming As a Business to Beat Climate Change
Onions and rice are a conspicuous part of every meal in Senegal, including the famous Poulet Yassa. However, climate change makes it hard for smallholder farmers to grow enough… Read more »
June 08, 2022
Africa: The World's Worst Food Crisis for Decades - and What to Do About It
This is what happens when you starve. With no food, the body's metabolism slows down to preserve energy for vital organs. Hungry and weak, people often become fatigued, irritable… Read more »
Africa: African Solutions to African Problems - Reframing Science Innovation
Africa is plagued by many epidemics -- from tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS to malaria and wild polio -- but the continent has also worked for decades to fight these threats. The key to… Read more »
June 06, 2022
Africa: The Great Fish Robbery
Now it comes to another 'crime' being stealthy committed as a consequence of the unrelenting business obsession for making more and more money. Read more »
Africa: The UN Security Council Is in Desperate Need of Comprehensive Reforms
Any fair analysis of the United Nations strongly suggests that the UN of today is not the same UN that was established in 1945. The United Nations Security Council in particular,… Read more »
June 03, 2022
Kenya: Locals in Arid North Face Climate Change, Hunger and Poverty
Darkuale Parsanti and his wife Mary Rampe are counting their losses: One by one, they have seen their livestock wiped out. 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 »
June 01, 2022
North Africa: If Women Don't Lead, We'll Lose the Battle Against Climate Crisis
We are in the midst of so many crises across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: the most unequal, water scarce, least democratic region in the world, with the widest… 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: UN 'Deeply Troubled' By Impending Cuts On Development Aid By Rich Nations
The four-month-old Russian invasion of Ukraine, which has triggered a hefty increase in military spending among Western nations and a rise in humanitarian and military assistance… Read more »
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 24, 2022
Nigeria: Corruption Kills
Nigeria's accountant-general, the administrative head of the country's treasury, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for allegedly stealing 80 billion… 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 19, 2022
South Africa: As Covid Wanes, Tuberculosis Deaths Must Become Visible
It is time to treat the scourge of Tuberculosis scourge with the same urgency as we did the COVID-19 pandemic. Read more »
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 »