May 17, 2022
Africa: Africa Expected to Strongly Support Durban Call to Action On Child Labour
Global goals to eradicate child labour will not be achieved without a breakthrough in Africa, where most of the world's 160 million children entrapped in child labour work in rural… Read more »
Africa: Call to Invest 'Serious Resources' in Education, to Stem Tide of Child Labour
"Education is the most powerful weapon you can use to eliminate child labour." So said Dennis Sinyolo, Director of Education International's African Regional Office in Accra,… Read more »
May 15, 2022
Africa: Youths' Strident Voices Demand an End to Child Labour
Children's voices took centre stage at the 5th Global Conference on the Elimination of Child Labour, which kicked off in Durban, South Africa, on May 15, 2022. Their voices… Read more »
May 13, 2022
Africa: Call to Freedom for Millions of Children Trapped in Child Labour As Global Conference Comes to Africa
Children washing clothes in rivers, begging on the streets, hawking, walking for kilometres in search of water and firewood, their tiny hands competing with older, experienced… Read more »
May 15, 2022
Africa: Alarm Bells for Africa, Child Labour in Agriculture Requires Urgent Action
The Global Estimate on Child Labour estimates 160 million children are in child labour worldwide - an increase of 8.4 million children in the last four years - with millions more… Read more »
May 13, 2022
Africa: Ukraine War Creates New Crises in Global South
While the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine is shaking up the European security order, other parts of the world are being particularly affected by the war's 'side effects'. Read more »
May 10, 2022
Africa: UN Secretary-General Must Be Non-Risk Averse, & Play a More Pivotal and Active Role
Mr. Vladimir Putin's illegal War of Aggression in Ukraine, launched on February 24, 2022, brought into stark relief the fractured state of Global Peace and Security. Militarized… Read more »
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
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: 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »