August 12, 2022
Africa: 'Aid Organizations Must Include the Youth Voice' August 12, 2022--International Youth Day
Today marks International Youth Day, a global celebration of the transformative power of young people. Introduced by the United Nations General Assembly in 1999, the event was… Read more »
August 10, 2022
Africa: Climate Change Conclusion - Time for Bold Action
With climate change bringing about increasing numbers of human deaths and untold suffering, and rising economic, social, and environmental consequences worldwide, it's time for… Read more »
Africa: UN's Education Summit - An Opportunity to Create a Bottom-Up Global Governance
The upcoming summit on Education, part of the UN Secretary General's ambitious agenda, can truly bring accountability and participation to the inevitably new ways education will be… Read more »
August 09, 2022
Africa: April Fool's Inflation Medicine Threatens Progress
The world economy is on the brink of outright recession, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Ukraine war and sanctions have scuttled recovery from the COVID-19… Read more »
August 08, 2022
Africa: Of the Far West, The 'Good Cowboys'... And the 'Bad Indians'
Nothing -or too little- has changed since Hollywood started producing its spectacular western movies. Rough men, ranchers, mercenary killers, saloons, cowboys, guns, gold fever,… Read more »
Africa: Indigenous Women At the Forefront of Transformational Change
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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 »
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: 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
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 »
July 28, 2022
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
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
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 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 »
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 »
November 15, 2011
Africa: World's Biggest Hydropower Scheme Will Leave Africans in the Dark
South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo have signed an agreement to build a major hydroelectric power project, which is said to bring electricity to more than half of the… Read more »
December 17, 2010
Africa: Scientists Focus On Male Mosquitoes in Bid to Control Malaria
After successfully suppressing scourges of fruit, tsetse and screwworm flies in the Americas, researchers are exploring whether the same sterilised insect technique can be used to… Read more »
August 25, 2006
Africa: A Ghastly Disease Feeds Off a Ghastlier Oppression
Gender inequality has become the main driver of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, especially in Africa, where 70 percent of those infected are women. Read more »
July 12, 2004
Africa: U.S. Should Reach Out to African Muslims - Report
The United States should increase its military readiness for peacekeeping or counter-terrorist action in Africa, and make new efforts to reach out to the region's Muslim… Read more »