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 09, 2022
Zimbabwe: Press Freedom - One Step Forward, Three Steps Backward
For international journalist Jeffery Moyo, doing his job could land him in prison if Zimbabwe authorities have their way. Read more »
Africa: Food and Fertility Rates - What Governments Need to Do
People require food, with more people requiring more food and less people requiring less food. Despite that self-evident relationship, most governments appear reluctant to accept… Read more »
Africa: Education and Aid - Today Is the Time for Transformation
"I first think about my children. They are why we were forced to leave - because our children are always our first concern." Read more »
Africa: Soil Microbes Could Be an Alternative to Expensive Agricultural Fertilisers
Around the world, commercial fertilizer prices are soaring, pushing farmers and countries into a frenzy. In addition, soaring fertilizer prices are sparking fears of inflation,… Read more »
May 06, 2022
Kenya: Give Edible Insects a Chance As an Alternative High-Quality Protein Source, Say Scientists
Growing up in Samoya Village of Bungoma County in the Western part of Kenya, Elvis Wanjala has fond childhood memories of the rainy season, chasing and catching black-bellied… Read more »
May 05, 2022
West Africa: Breaking Menstruation Taboos and Leaving No Girl Behind
Fourteen-year-old Hadiza smiles as she clutches a purple bag in her hands. Inside the cloth bag is a Menstrual Hygiene Management kit, an essential item that gives her dignity and… 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 »
May 03, 2022
Africa: Out of Africa - Rich Continent, Poor People
Capital flight from the global South is immense, with widespread adverse effects. A new book proposes measures to curb, even reverse capital flight from Africa. It also offers… Read more »
April 29, 2022
Africa: Commitment to African Medicines Agency Needs More Than Words
Across Africa, local manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies are responding to the urgent need for locally produced medical products and technologies despite the existing… Read more »
Kenya: Breaking Vicious Cycle of Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation
Desperate to escape the rural area where she was engaged in the informal economy in Kayonza, a district in Eastern Rwanda, Sharon* made a long and arduous journey to Kenya in the… Read more »
Kenya: Government Ministries Must Collaborate to End Teenage Pregnancy Crisis in Kenya
The Ministry of Health in Kenya recently reported there were 45,754 cases of adolescent pregnancies between January and February this year - that translates to 700 cases a day. Of… Read more »
April 27, 2022
Africa: Two Months After the Start of the War, Food Insecurity Continues to Grow
Two months after the start of the war, on 24 February, the data on the substantial increase in the cost of food products, the rise in prices and shortages of fertilizers, the… Read more »
Africa: Landmark UN Report Issues Stark Call for Sustainable Land Management to Save Human Health
With 50% of humanity affected by land degradation, the world must move to a 'crisis footing' to conserve, restore and use land resources sustainably, a major UN report has said. Read more »
April 26, 2022
Africa: The World Can Stop Capital Flight Now
Curbing capital flight from developing countries is long overdue. New sanctions against Russian oligarchs show this can be done with the requisite political will. Recent research… Read more »
April 22, 2022
Africa: A Move to Undermine the Anachronistic Veto Powers in the Security Council Gains Traction
The five permanent members (P5) of the UN Security Council (UNSC) - UK, US, France, China and Russia - have exercised their veto powers primarily to protect their own national… Read more »
April 20, 2022
Africa: Suicidal War On Nature Continues Unabated - #EarthDay2022
The gloomy picture is drawn from indisputable scientific conclusions and should be already known by everybody, in particular by decision-makers, whether they are politicians... or… Read more »
Kenya: Community Project Saving Forests, Saving Livelihoods
Despite an abundance of fisheries reserves along Kwale County's lush coastline located on the south coast of Kenya, fishers can no longer cast a net just past the coral reef and… Read more »
April 18, 2022
Malawi: Malawi Counts Success of Polio Vaccination Drive After Detecting First Case in 30 Years
One polio case is one too many, global health experts say. Read more »
Africa: High Cost of Debt Is Crippling Developing Nations - How Can We Bridge the Finance Divide?
As the world is rocked by a confluence of crises, the global economic outlook for 2022 is becoming ever more uncertain and fragile. Prospects for sustainable development for all… Read more »
April 15, 2022
Africa: War in Ukraine & Rise in Arms Spending Undermine Development Aid to the World's Poor
The unprecedented flow of arms to Ukraine, and the rising miliary spending by European nations to strengthen their defenses, are threatening to undermine development aid to the… 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 »
January 01, 2013
Ethiopia: The Rise of Ethiopia's Sole Rebels
Innovative Ethiopian footwear manufacturer Sole Rebels will open its second retail outlet in Taiwan this year. With ambitions to open 30 more franchise stores across the world in… Read more »
September 11, 2012
Kenya: Kenya's Water Wars Kill Scores
Water scarcity is fuelling deadly inter-ethnic wars that continue to claim lives in Kenya, according to government officials. And if nothing is done to educate communities on how… Read more »
August 23, 2012
Congo-Kinshasa: Getting a Grip On Food Security in DR Congo
The Association for Integrated Rural Development is one of a number of rural organisations on the periphery of Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, which are… Read more »