January 19, 2023
Africa: The People of Africa Need Relief - The Biden Administration Can Provide It
United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen is traveling to South Africa, Zambia, and Senegal this week in the hopes of strengthening U.S.-Africa relations at a time of waning… Read more »
January 18, 2023
Africa: The Value of Strong Multilateral Cooperation in a Fractured World
The multilateral system, even in the face of heightened geopolitical tension and big power rivalry, remains the uniquely inclusive vehicle for managing mutual interdependencies in… Read more »
January 17, 2023
Africa: The UN Keeps Shrinking - Amid Pandemic Lockdowns & Flexible Working Hours
A new variant of Covid-19, spreading across New York city, is forcing businesses, banks and high-powered financial institutions to re-introduce flexible working hours after a brief… Read more »
January 11, 2023
Africa: An Oil Tanker Grounded Off Yemen Faces a Potential Humanitarian Disaster
The long-delayed salvaging of an abandoned tanker, the FSO Safer off the Yemeni coast, has been described as a humanitarian disaster waiting to happen. Read more »
January 10, 2023
Africa: Why U.S.-Africa Relations - and Africa - Matter More Now Than Ever
President Biden and leaders of 49 invited African countries and the African Union met in Washington last month for the U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit - a meeting that all parties hope… Read more »
December 23, 2022
Africa: After 43 Years of Negotiations, Security Council Reforms Move At the Pace of a Paralytic Snail
The reform of the Security Council, the most powerful body at the United Nations, has remained a never-ending political saga. Read more »
Africa: Security Council Reform - Big Five Are the Heart of the Problem
The UN Charter mandates the Security Council to maintain international peace, but wars rage on and nations arm themselves with ever more lethal weapons. No wonder that the… Read more »
December 21, 2022
Africa: Gender Inequality - a Question of Power in a Male-Dominated World, Declares UN Chief
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has singled out Gender Parity as one of his key priorities in his second term in office, beginning 2023. Read more »
Africa: Gender Parity At the UN Willfully Ignores the Facts
There are two sides to the problem of Gender Parity at the United Nations. Read more »
December 08, 2022
Africa: Europe and the Refugee Crisis - It's All About Tackling Racism & Discrimination
In 2019, when the President-elect of the European Union (EU) Ursula von der Leyen had presented a list for her soon-to-be European Commission, and on that list was a portfolio… Read more »
December 13, 2022
Africa: The Humanitarian Rescue Fleet Faces Hurricane Meloni
It was a hellish journey aboard a crammed boat amid three-meter waves. It had started on a Libyan beach, and at the gates of winter. On December 11, the last 500 migrants rescued… Read more »
December 12, 2022
Africa: European Court of Justice Ruling is Major Blow to Fight Against Illegal Fishing
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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 »
Africa: COP27 Was a Global Cop-Out, Critics Say
Last year's climate COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland, was billed as the most important conference in the history of humanity. But it failed to deliver. If anything, that failure added… Read more »
November 30, 2022
Africa: Three Ways to End Gender-Based Violence
How are the multiple shocks and crises the world is facing changing how we respond to gender-based violence? Almost three years after the COVID-19 pandemic triggered high levels of… Read more »
November 29, 2022
Africa: UN Assessed Contributions Needed to Generate Core Funding for Climate Loss & Damage
For decades, there have been non-conclusive deliberations regarding how the international community could support poor and vulnerable countries in their efforts to cope with and… Read more »
November 21, 2022
Africa: U.S. to Fight Sexual Abuse in International Organizations
The United States, which recently laid down a set of guidelines to monitor sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) by US citizens in international organizations, including the United… Read more »
November 25, 2022
Africa: Push Forward - Act Now to End Violence Against Women and Girls
Five years ago, the global #MeToo movement brought new urgency and visibility to the extent of violence against women and girls. Millions of survivors came forward to share their… Read more »
Africa: Countries Hiding Responses Sent to UN Experts Over Allegations of Human Rights Abuses
Human rights defenders are alarmed at what appears to be a new process permitting countries to keep confidential their responses to UN experts about allegations of human rights… Read more »
November 20, 2022
Africa: Loss and Damage Fund Saves COP27 From the Abyss #AfricaClimateHope
They were on the brink of shipwreck and did not leave happy, but did feel satisfied that they got the best they could. The countries of the global South achieved something decisive… Read more »
November 21, 2022
Africa: Crimes Against Children
An indisputable truth is that no child has ever chosen where to be born, which colour of skin to have, which ethnic community to belong to, what religion to practice and language… Read more »
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 15, 2022
Africa: Three Truths to Address Sexual Exploitation, Abuse & Harassment in the UN
The U.S. Government has recently published 'Engagement Principles' on Protection from Sexual Exploitation Abuse & Sexual Harassment within International Organizations', and… Read more »
November 11, 2022
West Africa: President Biden Is Hosting a Summit of African Leaders - Governance in the Sahel Must Be a Priority
The upcoming Africa Leaders' Summit- slated to take place in Washington, DC in December- is well-timed. The Biden administration has made a welcome and significant push over the… Read more »
November 10, 2022
Africa: Making the UN Charter a Reality - Towards a New Approach to Development Cooperation?
We are living in a world where both our bilateral and multilateral achievements, consensuses on human rights and social justice, and our resolve to public good are being tested… Read more »