February 20, 2023
Africa: A Last-Ditch Effort to Save a High Seas Treaty From Sinking
When the United Nations began negotiations on a legally binding treaty to protect and regulate the high seas, one diplomat pointedly remarked: "It's a jungle out… Read more »
February 17, 2023
Africa: 'Hate Speech Loads the Gun, Misinformation Pulls the Trigger' - and It Is Profitable
In this world of wars, massive weapons production, sales and use; of sharpening inequalities and deadly climate emergencies, hate speech and its inhumane impact, is being amplified… Read more »
February 15, 2023
Africa: World Leaders, Private Sector Urged to Establish an International Green Bank to Win Climate Change Battle
As the effects of climate change escalate and natural disasters such as earthquakes, floods, and droughts become more frequent and severe, threatening lives and livelihoods,… Read more »
Africa: China and Russia Fail to Defund UN Human Rights Work
United Nations member states agreed to fully fund UN human rights mechanisms that China, Russia, and their allies had sought to defund in the 2023 budget. This should set a… Read more »
February 14, 2023
Africa: Outlook for 2023 - Children in 'Polycrisis'
The year 2022 was incredibly difficult for people around the world. We were confronted by a series of major crises, including a continuing pandemic, a major war in Europe, an… Read more »
February 06, 2023
Africa: Race to Prosperity As Least Developed Countries Top Agenda At UN Conference
It is a race against time to form a new global partnership to secure a better future for the world's poorest and most vulnerable nations by 2030 in line with the UN's SDGs. All 46… Read more »
February 09, 2023
Africa: Mental Health Must Be Addressed in Medical Facilities and in Communities
Patients who visit public clinics in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, are asked mental health questions to detect signs of stress and depression early. The process starts with a… Read more »
February 02, 2023
Africa: U.S. Policies Slowing World Economy
Few policymakers ever claim credit for causing stagnation and recessions. Yet, they do so all the time, justifying their actions by some supposedly higher purpose. Read more »
February 01, 2023
Africa: Who Are Humanitarian Journalists?
In a new book, entitled Humanitarian Journalists: Covering Crises from a Boundary Zone, we document the unique reporting practices of a small but influential group of journalists… Read more »
January 31, 2023
Africa: No More Impunity for Journalists' Murders, Says Committee to Protect Journalists
The new year brought bad news for press freedom on the African continent with the brutal murder of one journalist and the suspicious death of another. Read more »
January 27, 2023
Africa: The Year of Debt Distress and Damaging Development Trade-Off
As the year 2022 drew to an end, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) warned, "Developing countries face 'impossible trade-off' on debt", that spiralling… Read more »
January 26, 2023
Africa: As the #AfricaClimateCrisis Bites, Soil Needs Doctors Too
In a wiser world, the term 'treating someone like dirt' would be a good thing. After all, 15 of the 18 nutrients essential to plants are supplied by soils and around 95% of the… Read more »
January 25, 2023
Africa: New Business Technology Transfer Provides Benefits for African Pharmaceutical Industry
A few months after German biotechnology company BioNTech announced the establishment of the first-ever local vaccine manufacturing in Rwanda, experts believe the successful… Read more »
Africa: 'Disconnected Citizens Are Kept Away From Opportunities'
In 2022, Saudi Arabia "quietly" sentenced Salma al-Shehab to 34 years in prison over her Twitter activity, marking the longest Saudi sentence ever for a peaceful activist. Fast… Read more »
January 24, 2023
Africa: On International Day of Education, We Must Prioritise Girls in Humanitarian Crisis
"Is it a sin to be a girl? We don't want to be at home and illiterate. We want to go to school, study and be intelligent." Read more »
January 17, 2023
Africa: Africa Wants IMF Special Drawing Rights Re-Allocated to Finance Its Development
African countries, many reeling under high debt and experiencing economic recession, could benefit from the reallocation of Special Drawing Rights (SDR), financial instruments of… Read more »
January 19, 2023
Africa: The People of Africa Need Relief - The Biden Administration Can Provide It
United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is traveling to South Africa, Zambia, and Senegal this week in the hopes of strengthening U.S.-Africa relations at a time of waning… Read more »
January 18, 2023
Africa: The Value of Strong Multilateral Cooperation in a Fractured World
The multilateral system, even in the face of heightened geopolitical tension and big power rivalry, remains the uniquely inclusive vehicle for managing mutual interdependencies in… Read more »
January 17, 2023
Africa: The UN Keeps Shrinking - Amid Pandemic Lockdowns & Flexible Working Hours
A new variant of Covid-19, spreading across New York city, is forcing businesses, banks and high-powered financial institutions to re-introduce flexible working hours after a brief… Read more »
Africa: The Year of Inflation Exposes Dogma and Class Bias
Inflation worries topped Ipsos's What Worries the World survey in 2022 overtaking COVID concerns. The return of inflation caught major central banks, e.g., the US Federal Reserve… Read more »
January 16, 2023
Africa: African Journalists: More Training & Resources will Boost Climate Change Coverage
At the end of a five-minute newscast from a makeshift studio in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt, the venue of COP27, Cotonou-based journalist Ghyslaine Florida Zossoungbo was able to… Read more »
Africa: Continent's Vast Arable Land Underused for Both Cash and Food Crops - Experts
Concerns are rife that while Africa is growing more crops, these are not for food and that on the current trajectory, present food import costs into Africa, now estimated at 55… Read more »
January 11, 2023
Africa: An Oil Tanker Grounded Off Yemen Faces a Potential Humanitarian Disaster
The long-delayed salvaging of an abandoned tanker, the FSO Safer off the Yemeni coast, has been described as a humanitarian disaster waiting to happen. Read more »
January 10, 2023
Africa: Why U.S.-Africa Relations - and Africa - Matter More Now Than Ever
President Biden and leaders of 49 invited African countries and the African Union met in Washington last month for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit - a meeting that all parties hope… Read more »
January 06, 2023
Africa: Conflicts, Climate Change Threaten Sprouting of Africa's Great Green Wall #AfricaClimateCrisis
Escalating conflict and climate change threaten the implementation of the Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI), an ambitious land restoration project across Africa. Read more »