February 23
Africa: The World Social Forum - the Counterweight to the World Economic Forum
This week the 2024 annual meeting of the World Social Forum (WSF) was held in Nepal. There were fifty thousand participants from over 90 countries, exchanging strategies to address… Read more »
February 22
Africa: #unmute - Over 350 Civil Society Organizations Ask for Real Inclusion in UN Summit of the Future Negotiations
A coalition of over 350 civil society organisations part of the #UNmute initiative, shared concerns over the current engagement mechanisms for civil society at the UN -… Read more »
February 28
Africa: 'I Haven't Forgotten Where I Came From,' Says Pinto, Incoming Rice Research Institute Chief
Growing up on a small farming station in Holetta (Ethiopia), Yvonne Pinto would accompany her agriculturist father to the farm, where she would spend her time cross-fertilizing… Read more »
Africa: Africa's Debt Crisis Needs a Bold New Approach - & a Way Forward
It hasn't been easy for African states to finance their developmental and environmental policy objectives over the past few years. Read more »
February 22
Africa: Unpacking 2023, the Warmest Year On Record
2023 was the warmest year on record. The latest Copernicus Climate Change Service highlights that February 2023 to January 2024 was the first time that we experienced 12… Read more »
February 23
Africa: Funding, Policy Changes Could Result in Countries Reaping Benefit of Migration
Amid an escalation of global conflict and climate change-induced displacements, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) is escalating its donor campaign. Read more »
February 19
Africa: Forced Migration Grows, Justice Withers, Say Activists At World Social Forum
As involuntary migration rises around the world, partly in response to the impacts of climate change, justice for those leaving their homes and families to earn a living is largely… Read more »
Africa: Smallholder Farmers Are Key to CGIAR Response to Hunger Crisis
Dr Ismahane Elouafi has her work cut out. As the new executive managing director of CGIAR, a global network of agricultural research centers, her mandate, simply put, is to tackle… Read more »
Africa: Women Biomass Producers - Energy's Largest and Largely Invisible Workforce
The International Energy Agency (IEA) held its annual ministers meeting last week in Paris, marking the 50th anniversary of the world's leading energy organization. Critical topics… Read more »
February 21
Africa: Who Wants to Live By the Sea?
For most of history, only those who made their living from the sea chose to live on the coast. Fear of being battered by storms, not to mention vulnerability to attacks from… Read more »
Africa: It Is Imperative to Protect Children in War
All around the globe, the most vulnerable among us are suffering the gravest consequences of war. Children bear the brunt of the horrors inflicted by States and armed groups… Read more »
February 20
Africa: Phasing Out From Fossil Fuels - an Imperative for Climate Justice
Climate change made 2023 the warmest year on record. As urgency mounts to address this worldwide crisis, phasing out the use of fossil fuels is a necessary step that all nations… Read more »
February 18
Africa: South Africa vs Israel - ICJ Declines SA's New Application but Says Israel Duty Bound to Protect Civilians
The International Court of Justice has declined the South African government's urgent application for further measures to prevent an "unprecedented military offensive against… Read more »
February 08
Africa: Proven Vector Control Interventions Needed to Stem Malaria Infections in Africa
Experts recommend that the current prevention of malaria in highly endemic countries in Africa should integrate "locally appropriate" control measures to cope with the highest… Read more »
February 09
Africa: Africa's Non-Permanent Member Status a 'Flagrant Injustice' - UN Chief
As the UN continues its never-ending saga on the reform of the Security Council (UNSC), one of the political anomalies that keeps cropping up is the absence of Africa, among the… Read more »
February 02
Africa: Is the Reform of the UN Security Council a Good Try in a Lost Cause?
The myriads of proposals for the reform of the much-maligned Security Council have been kicked around the United Nations for more than two decades--with no significant progress. Read more »
February 05
Africa: Road to COP29 - Highest Climate Ambitions Needed to Decarbonize World
The road to COP29 has begun in earnest in the backdrop of a global climate report indicating that not only was 2023 the warmest year in a 174-year climate record, it was the… Read more »
February 06
Africa: Landlocked Developing Countries Conference to Address Development
Landlocked developing countries need greater support from the international community so that they are no longer left behind when it comes to progressing with the SDGs, says the UN… Read more »
January 31
Africa: Prospects for Commonwealth Countries, Addressing Gaps and Shaping Expectations for COP29
By Unnikrishnan Divakaran Nair and Nirupama Vinayan Read more »
Africa: Onerous Debt Making Poorest Poorer
Contractionary economic trends since 2008 and 'geopolitical' conflicts subverting international cooperation have worsened world conditions, especially in the poorest countries,… Read more »
February 01
Africa: In Africa, Witch Branding Destroys Elderly Women's Lives
One day in October 2020, Serah Akpan, 70, was seated in her house at Boki Local Government in Cross River, southern Nigeria, when she heard the murmurings of irate youth outside.… Read more »
January 30
Africa: Blinken's Visit to Africa - Is U.S. Counterterrorism Counterproductive?
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's week-long tour across four African countries was aimed at strengthening the US-Africa relationship--a relationship, according to some… Read more »
January 26
Africa: Ban or Restrict? Quandary Facing Governments As Vaping Entices Teens Worldwide
A hot debate on electronic smoking devices is expected to engage governments, scheduled to meet in Panama from 5-10 February for the tenth session of the Conference of Parties… Read more »
January 19
Africa: Trapped and Trafficked - Fishers Tell of Forced Labor Horror
"The thing is that when you come from an African country, they know that you're basically trapped," says Noel Adabblah. Read more »
January 23
Africa: Matchmaking for Green Cities? Accelerating Climate Finance in Urban Areas
By Liam O Connor, Francisco Martes Porto Macedo and Omar Siddique Read more »
Inter Press Service (Johannesburg)
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