December 08, 2025
Africa: How Africa Is Using Tech to Protect Nature and the Planet
What's the context? Africa is leveraging technology and AI coupled with traditional knowledge to reduce planet-heating emissions and protect nature. Read more »
December 01, 2025
Africa: Financing the Future of South Africa's HIV Care
What's the context? From resource pooling to innovative taxes, South African health experts explore new funding models to fight HIV after Trump cuts. Read more »
September 29, 2025
Africa: In Africa, AGOA Uncertainty Sparks Jobs Fears, Hopes for New Deals
What's the context? From Kenya to South Africa, union workers want US to renew AGOA trade deal - but are seeking alternatives if it expires. Read more »
October 08, 2025
Africa: Europe Can't Afford Not to Invest in Africa's Health
Europe's support for Global Fund to fight HIV, TB and malaria has been pivotal but progress is fragile and it must stay the course. Read more »
October 10, 2025
Africa: AGOA 2.0 Needs Reform, Not Just Renewal - Nigeria's Olele
What's the context? Nigerian business leader Margaret Olele says expired Africa-U.S. AGOA trade pact needs reform to boost investment. Read more »
September 12, 2025
Africa: Macky Sall On a New $50 Billion Plan to Climate-Proof Africa
What's the context? Amid funding uncertainty, African leaders urgently call for more climate adaptation cash. Read more »
September 04, 2025
Africa: Farm to Fork - Five Ways Africa Is Boosting Food Security
What's the context? As experts discuss food security, here are a few clever fixes that are already feeding people and fighting climate change. Read more »
September 08, 2025
Africa: U.S. Funding Disruption Pushes Africa's HIV Programmes to Brink
What's the context? Disruptions to PEPFAR under Trump have worsened HIV/AIDS care and stigma in East Africa, new research shows. Read more »
August 20, 2025
Africa: Africa Braces for Likely End of AGOA Trade Deal Under Trump
What's the context? Few expect the decades-old programme that has boosted economies across Africa to be renewed when it expires in September. Read more »
August 07, 2025
Africa: Courts Push Back On Meta's Legal Strategy
What we have concluded about Meta's legal strategy following our cases against the tech giant. Read more »
August 05, 2025
Africa: The UK's Aid Cuts Are a Betrayal of Africa - and of Its Own Values
Bilateral aid to Africa will be slashed by 12% in 2025-2026. This is not a strategic pivot. It is a retreat from responsibility. Read more »
July 30, 2025
Africa: To Attract Investors, Africa Must Smash Economic Stereotypes
Africa is young, dynamic and rich in resources, but misperceptions obscure its potential and deter investors. That needs to change. Read more »
December 21, 2020
Africa: Climate Risks to Health Set to Worsen Inequity, Harm Children
From poor families in flood-prone homes to women required to cover up in extreme heat, climate change will hit the health of vulnerable groups the hardest, warns Kristie Ebi Read more »
April 20, 2020
Africa: Amid Coronavirus, Let's Not Forget About Indigenous People
Indigenous communities play a critical role in preventing the emergence of diseases and must be involved in the response to the pandemic Read more »
August 27, 2018
Africa: Half the World's Schools Lack Clean Water, Toilets and Handwashing
Nearly half the world's schools lack clean drinking water, toilets and handwashing facilities, putting millions of children at risk of disease, experts warned on Monday. Read more »
December 11, 2014
Africa: Protecting Mangroves Can Lower Disaster Risks, Offer Cash - Experts
Better protecting the world's fast-disappearing mangroves could have big economic, social and environmental benefits, experts said at the U.N. climate talks in Lima this week. Read more »











