Africa: A Test of Humanity - Migrants' Rights in a World Turning Inward

The United Nations Refugee Agency faces devastating cuts that may eliminate 5,000 to 6,000 jobs, with potentially catastrophic consequences for millions of people fleeing war,… Read more »

Sudan: Seeds of Survival, Amid Conflict Sudan Is Saving Its Agricultural Future

Sudan's diverse crops and agricultural heritage are at risk of being lost. The ongoing conflict in Sudan is claiming lives and threatening livelihoods and food security. Read more »

Africa: The Toll of Mental Health in Conflict Areas

Over the past two decades, conversations surrounding mental wellness have entered the cultural consciousness in the western world. Despite this, these topics receive far less media… Read more »

Gambia: Addressing the Scars of Abuse - a Global Call to Protect Girls and Secure Their Futures

In March 2000, 15-year-old Binta Manneh was eager to test her skills at an out-of-town interschool sports competition. That night, as she stepped out to buy biscuits from a nearby… Read more »

Sudan: Humanitarian Groups Face Challenges in Reaching the Sudanese Displaced Population

In the final quarter of 2024 ,there has been an escalation in the Sudanese civil war, with armed clashes between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)… Read more »

Africa: Shaping Conditions for Fair, Equitable and Enduring Climate Finance

The global commitment to fair climate finance is at a crossroads. COP29 concluded with a disappointing New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG), leaving developing… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Goma - What Have We Done to God to Deserve All This?

Two weeks after Goma was captured by the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, many families who lost their loved ones are begging for peace. Some of them have had no news of their loved… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Greed and Cynicism Fuel Rwanda's War in DRC

The fresh offensive by the M23 rebels and Rwanda forces in Eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) coincides with the first anniversary of the Memorandum of Understanding… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Should King Baudouin, DRC's Last Sovereign, Be Beatified?

While the Vatican has launched the process for the beatification of King Baudoin I of Belgium in 2024, opinions remain divided on the need for this decision in the DRC, a country… Read more »

South Africa: Fallen Black South African Soldiers From World War I Finally Remembered

A new war memorial in Cape Town, South Africa, remembers the close to 2,000 casualties who served in Africa during World War 1, between 1914-1918 and who have no known graves and… Read more »

Africa: Food Systems Worsen Diets, Health

Corporate-dominated food systems are responsible for widespread but still spreading malnutrition and ill health. Poor diets worsen non-communicable diseases (NCDs), now costing… Read more »

Africa: The Year 2024 - Hopes & Despairs

Thank God, we have survived another year of genocide, war, destruction and climate crisis. The passing year of 2024 has been a mixture of hope and despair. It began with some hope… Read more »

Sudan: Sudan's Humanitarian Crisis Expected to Worsen in 2025

As the Civil War rages on in Sudan, the nationwide humanitarian crisis continues to worsen. Armed conflict has caused an escalation in civilian casualties and displacement in the… Read more »

Africa: Trapped On a Runaway Train - Looking Back On 2024

Do you sometimes feel like a hamster on its wheel, or perhaps stuck on a runaway train hurtling towards the abyss? Whatever metaphor one might choose for our world looking back on… Read more »

Mozambique: Japanese Bank Criticized for Financing Mozambique LNG Project Blamed for Displacement

Climate and environmental activists from Japan have criticized the Japan Bank for International Cooperation (JBIC) for financing the controversial Mozambique Liquefied Natural Gas… Read more »

Africa: These Billion Humans Simply Do Not Exist

Perhaps demographers would consider designing a new classification system to separate from their estimates of the world's total population -eight billion plus- the billion humans… Read more »

Sudan: Escalation of Violence in Sudan Raises Concern of Nationwide Collapse

On December 9, a wave of bombardments hit a market district in Sudan, killing at least 127 people. Over eight barrel bombs were launched on the North Darfur town Kabkabiya, marking… Read more »

Africa: 'For the Human Race, Ignoring the Climate Emergency Is No Longer an Option'

If lives and livelihoods are to be protected, if we want to avoid utter catastrophe, there simply is no time to lose. As has often been said, we are the first generation to feel… Read more »

Sudan: Heightened Insecurity in Sudan Threatens Nationwide Collapse

As the Sudanese Civil War continues to ravage the people of Sudan, conditions for internally displaced persons grow more dire every day. The situation in Sudan is currently the… Read more »

Africa: Who Are the Ultimate Winners in the World's Ongoing Military Conflicts?

If and when the devastating military conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza come to an end, the ultimate winners will not be the Russians, the Americans or the Israelis but the world's arms… Read more »

Sudan: Famine and Violence Raise Death Toll in Sudan

The humanitarian crisis in Sudan continues to deepen as a result of the ongoing Sudanese Civil War. Intensified conflict between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the Rapid… Read more »

Sudan: Sudanese Women & Human Rights Defenders Call for Solidarity to Stop the Bloodshed

On 15 April 2023, the outbreak of war between the Sudanese army and the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) drastically altered the face of Sudanese society. The fighting left thousands of… Read more »

Sudan: 'The International Community Must Stop Turning a Blind Eye to the Suffering of Sudanese Women'

Content warning: this interview contains details some readers may find distressing. Read more »

Africa: Peace Talks--Delegates Turn to Climate Summit for Insights Into What Really Makes People Safe

At a time when the COP29 summit is primarily focused on climate finance as a tool to cool catastrophically high global temperatures and reverse consequences for all life on earth,… Read more »

Sudan: Sudan Ravaged By Disease, Famine, and War

As living conditions in Sudan deteriorate as a result of the Sudanese Civil War, levels of famine and violations of international humanitarian law continue to accelerate among the… Read more »