July 18
Africa: Can Scientific Freedom Deliver Development for Africa?
Scientific research has led to social and economic gains worldwide, but the scientists who make it happen face significant challenges. Read more »
July 17
Africa: Are Sustainable Cities a Pipe Dream?
Cities, once thought to be modern utopias that foster innovation, inclusivity, and commerce, actually ended up being hubs for environmental degradation. Although the concept of… Read more »
July 12
Africa: Women & Girls Find Their Sexual & Reproductive Health On the Frontlines of a Battle They Didn't Start
Droughts, cyclones, floods and extreme temperatures - these are the 'new abnormal' of a world in which weather-related events are becoming increasingly prolonged, intense and… Read more »
Africa: Is Artificial Intelligence the Way Forward or Backward?
Contrary to popular belief, artificial intelligence has been a cornerstone of technological progress for much longer than the past few years. Computer scientist Alan Turing brought… Read more »
July 08
Africa: A New Treaty for a Sustainable and Just Future?
A High-Level Political Forum - described as one of the most important events of the year for discussing the implementation of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)--will take place… Read more »
July 04
Africa: Investing in Teachers, School Leaders Key in Keeping Girls in School UN-African Union Study Finds
Investing in teachers and school leaders in Africa is the most important factor in promoting educational opportunities for girls, keeping them in school and ending child marriage,… Read more »
June 20
Africa: Peoples' Climate Vote Shows Global Support for Stronger Climate Action
The global public opinion research on climate change reveals that 80 percent, or four out of five, of people globally want their governments to take stronger action to tackle the… Read more »
June 27
Africa: A Tax On the Super-Rich to Fight Hunger Gains Ground
A global agreement could levy a small tax on the world's 3,000 richest people, with fortunes in excess of US$ 1 billion, and use the money to fight world hunger, a study by the… Read more »
June 20
Africa: Unveiling the 'Dark Matter' of Food, Diets and Biodiversity
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Africa: Govt Debt Is Symptom, Not Cause
Developing country governments are being blamed for irresponsibly borrowing too much. The resulting debt stress has blocked investments and growth in this unequal and unfair world… Read more »
June 18
Africa: Transforming African Food Systems From the Ground Up
All news is local, they say. The same is true of innovations--those many new technologies, policies, and practices that steadily stream from research to enhance our lives. Read more »
Africa: Sustainable Development of 39 Small Island Developing States - No Time to Wait
Today Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and the environmental threats they confront require our urgent attention --and the global spotlight needs to be trained deliberately and… Read more »
June 17
Africa: UN's Development Goals - Rich Nations Lead While World's Poor Lag Far Behind
When the 193-member UN General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution, back in September 2015, the goals were highly ambitious: to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, eliminate… Read more »
Africa: Restoring Trust - Confronting Corruption and Championing Integrity
58 percent of respondents to a worldwide survey believed that their political system has been captured by an elite that is corrupt, obsolete, and unreformable. Corruption thrives… Read more »
Africa: Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide
Since 2008, farmland acquisitions have doubled prices worldwide, squeezing family farmers and other poor rural communities. Such land grabs are worsening inequality, poverty, and… Read more »
June 13
Africa: African Activists Call On the West to Finance Climate Action
As the technical session of the global climate negotiations enters the final stretch in Bonn, Germany, climate activists from Africa have expressed fears that negotiators from the… Read more »
June 12
Africa: Power of Acknowledging White Privilege in Addressing Racism Within United Nations
As we commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre this month, organizations and communities should focus on white privilege as it is a critical but often… Read more »
June 11
Africa: Turning the Tide - Health Community Turns to UNFCC for Inclusivity
There is a rapid realization that climate change is impacting health, which is why the recently adopted World Health Organization's Climate Change and Health Resolution is… Read more »
May 30
Africa: South Suffering Due to Powerful Nations' Policies
The World Bank expects the international economic slowdown to be at its worst in over four decades in 2024. This is mainly due to powerful Western nations' contractionary… Read more »
May 29
Africa: To Tackle Climate Crisis, the World Bank Must Stop Financing Industrial Livestock
Last week, the World Bank Group released a new report that highlights the urgent need to drastically reduce GHG emissions to address the climate crisis and calls on countries to… Read more »
May 22
Africa: International Community Urged to End Impunity for Violence Against Healthcare in Conflicts
Governments and international agencies must do more to end impunity for violence against healthcare, campaigners have urged, as a new report shows that attacks on healthcare during… Read more »
May 23
Africa: Lessons From Youth-Focused 'Future Action Festival' Ahead of UN Summit of the Future
The world has crossed the halfway point to the end of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era amid multiple, unprecedented, and significantly destructive global shocks. Two of… Read more »
May 27
Africa: Explainer - Understanding Carbon Trading and Its Rationale
In this explainer, IPS takes a look at carbon emissions trading, which allows an entity, unable to reduce carbon emissions to the required limits, to pay someone who is not only… Read more »
May 28
Africa: Reclaiming the Narrative in African Philanthropy - a Community-Based Organization's Perspective
In recent years, the African philanthropy landscape has been undergoing a profound transformation. Or has it? Historically, the narrative of aid and development in Africa has been… Read more »
May 22
Africa: Small Island Developing States Can Be Nature-Positive Leaders for the World
Small island developing states (SIDS) are scattered across the globe, dotting the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean, the west and east coasts of Africa and the Indian Ocean. Read more »