January 02, 2023
Africa: Digitizing Africa - Key to Stronger Institutions
The writer is a Senior Economic Affairs Officer and leader of the Policy Analysis and Coordination team in the UN Office of the Special Adviser on Africa (UN - OSAA). Read more »
December 20, 2022
Africa: Thoughts for 2023 - Promoting Innovation & New Technologies
Promoting innovation and technology to promote inclusive development means using new technologies to enhance equal access to services, eliminate discrimination, increase… Read more »
December 19, 2022
Africa: Universal Health Coverage - Think of Health Workers, Not Just Health Services
Health services don't deliver themselves. It is the nurse who triages in the emergency department, the midwife who delivers babies and cares for mothers, the community health… Read more »
December 15, 2022
Africa: COP15 - Impacts of Mega Infrastructure Projects On Biodiversity Stay Off-Radar
As the COP entered its crucial second week, negotiations are intensifying now. A slew of new contact groups - meeting mostly behind closed doors - are discussing the minutest… Read more »
December 14, 2022
Africa: Europe's Dash for Gas Presents Pitfalls for Africa
One of the knock-on effects of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine is that European countries have embarked on a 'dash for gas' to find alternatives to Russian energy supplies. Read more »
December 13, 2022
Africa: Needed Global Financial Reforms Foregone Yet Again
Calls for more government regulation and intervention are common during crises. But once the crises subside, pressures to reform quickly evaporate and the government is told to… Read more »
December 12, 2022
Africa: The Digital Divide - Africa the Least Connected With 60% of the Population Offline
The digital divide - between the world's rich and poor nations --remains staggeringly wide. Read more »
December 07, 2022
Africa: COP15 - Biodiversity Conservation in the Face of Growing Economies
Dating back to the 16th Century, the face of biodiversity conservation has taken several tolls and twists- evolving from an era of preservation to conservation- down to… Read more »
December 01, 2022
Egypt: Egypt Races to Supply Wind, Solar Energy to Europe Via Submarine Cables
As Europe braces for an unusual winter due to a global energy crisis, Greece is embarking on one of Europe's most ambitious energy projects by connecting its electricity grid to… Read more »
November 30, 2022
Africa: Processing Industry Holds Promise for Broader Economic Growth
As a central pillar of African diets for thousands of years, millet has a prized position as one of the continent's most important crops. Read more »
November 28, 2022
Africa: Digital Human Rights Need to Be Enshrined in Law
The 17th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), to be hosted by the Government of Ethiopia with the support of UN ECA and UN DESA, will take place from 28 November to 2 December 2022 in… Read more »
November 25, 2022
Zimbabwe: Cattle Turn Into New Currency Amid Inflation in Zimbabwe
In 2007 as inflation walloped the Zimbabwean currency, rendering it valueless, then 54-year-old Langton Musaigwa of Mataruse village west of Zimbabwe in Mberengwa district switched… Read more »
November 22, 2022
Africa: Pan-African Approach Needed to Tackle Food Insecurity Arising From Conflict and Climate Shocks
Upheaval on the global stage, the war in Ukraine, conflict in the Horn of Africa, severe climatic shocks, high international inflation, increasing global commodity prices, high… Read more »
November 21, 2022
Africa: A Looming Debt Crisis Is Threatening Global Health Security. It Is Time to Drop the Debt
In this moment of profound challenge in international relations, it was understandable that the conclusion of the G20 meeting left leaders feeling relieved that the meeting took… Read more »
November 22, 2022
Africa: Open Veins of Africa Bleeding Heavily
The ongoing plunder of Africa's natural resources drained by capital flight is holding it back yet again. More African nations face protracted recessions amid mounting debt… Read more »
November 17, 2022
Africa: COP27 - Africa's Agri-Food Systems Losses Ignored in Global Climate Negotiations
At a time when sustainable farming approaches such as agroecology have been removed from the text at ongoing global climate negotiation (COP27) taking place in Sharm El Sheikh,… Read more »
November 09, 2022
Africa: The Paradox of Invisibility - Submarine Cables and the Geopolitics of Deep Seas
The recent incidents of sabotage of the Nord Stream gas pipeline in the depths of the Baltic Sea, the authorship of which still raises doubts today, have reminded us that some of… Read more »
Africa: Why Continent Must Be Part of Growing Interest in Nuclear Energy
The search for energy diversification has taken a more frantic pace amidst the global energy transition debate. Read more »
November 07, 2022
Africa: COP27 - Why Global Action Is Needed to Decarbonise Industries Everywhere
Ahead of this year's COP27 in Egypt, industry and government representatives from 15 developing countries across Asia, Latin America and Africa met in a series of consultations… Read more »
November 04, 2022
Africa: Revealed - Rich Countries 'Miserably' Fall Below Their Climate Promises, Further Indebt the Poor #AfricaClimateCrisis
Just a few days ahead of the UN Climate Conference (COP27) in Egypt (6-18 November), new revelations show how far rich, industrialised countries -those who contribute most to the… Read more »
Africa: COP27 - a Climate Summit Following Empty Promises & Funding Failures
The COP 27 climate summit is taking place amid a rash of political, economic and environmental upheavals, including missed funding and emission targets, increased pollution and… Read more »
November 02, 2022
Africa: Early Coal Retirement - How About a Global Auction?
Report after report highlights that we can only achieve the greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions required by the climate goals of the Paris Agreement if much of the existing… Read more »
November 01, 2022
Africa: Oil Exporters Make Markets, Not War
The decision to cut oil production by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) and its allies as of Nov. 1 comes in response to the need to face a shrinking market,… Read more »
Africa: Developing Countries Need Monetary Financing
Developing countries have long been told to avoid borrowing from central banks (CBs) to finance government spending. Many have even legislated against CB financing of fiscal… Read more »
October 29, 2022
Zimbabwe: Artisanal Miners Ruin Diminishing Forests
With homemade tents scattered about, hordes of artisanal gold miners throng parts of Mazowe village in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland Central Province, where they have cut down thousands… Read more »