October 01, 2022
Africa: Seize this Moment for Africa to Model Net-Zero Development – AFC's Samaila Zubairu
The African Finance Corporation (AFC), has a mission even more critical today than when it was created in 2007 - mobilizing private sector-led infrastructure investment needed to… Read more »
September 23, 2022
Africa: 'Africans Face Shared Opposition in Transnational Activism to Advance LGBTQI+ Rights'
In April 2022, the Centre for Human Rights (CHR) and the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS, and Gender (CSA&G) at the University of Pretoria together with the Center for Gender… Read more »
September 15, 2022
Africa: Global Covid-19 Response Nothing Short of Massive Failure - Lancet Report
According to a study by The Lancet, the global response to the Covid-19 epidemic has been nothing short of a massive failure. The peer-reviewed general medical journal explains… Read more »
September 14, 2022
Somalia: More Than Half a Million Children Face Catastrophic Hunger
The number of Somalia's youngest children – those aged under five – expected to suffer severe acute malnutrition has leapt from nearly 400,000 to more than half a… Read more »
September 06, 2022
Africa: Stop Funding AGRA, African Farmers Plead With Donors #AfricaClimateCrisis
Ahead of the annual forum of Agra - an organization founded to transform African agriculture - a large network of African food producers and their allies are calling for… Read more »
September 01, 2022
Africa: Experts Discuss Long Covid Risks and What Remains to be Learned
Much has been said about the long-term effects of Covid-19 on people who contracted the virus, but whose symptoms continue to persist long after the initial infection has passed.… Read more »
August 30, 2022
Africa: Strengthening Nutrition Resilience and Food Security on the African Continent
In February of this year, African leaders launched the African Year of Nutrition. However, as the year has unfolded, the outlook for nutrition on the continent has been… Read more »
August 28, 2022
East Africa: Fifth Failed Rainy Season Looms for Greater Horn Region
Drought-ridden parts of the Greater Horn region are bracing for a fifth successive failed rainy season, which will aggravate the crisis in the region, impacting millions and… Read more »
August 23, 2022
Ethiopia: World Health Chief Blames Lack of Attention to Tigray Crisis on Racism
Without mincing his words, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus has again attributed to racism the lack of international action to end the suffering of… Read more »
August 22, 2022
Africa: Ideas - With a Dose of Persistence - Make the Impossible Achievable
Dr. Vera Songwe today announced her departure as United Nations Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa at a virtual town meeting… Read more »
August 16, 2022
Africa: Ending Covid-19 Pandemic – and Preventing Worse Ones - Demands Equity, Innovation, Investment
Sharing technology and supporting innovation is not just about equity. It´s also the best way to stop pandemics Read more »
July 21, 2022
Zimbabwe: Victoria Falls Reportedly Risks Losing World Heritage Site Status from UN
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) has warned that plans by the governments of Zimbabwe and Zambia for the development of a golf… Read more »
July 15, 2022
Africa: Africa Must Diversify Economically, Says UN Development Head
Africa must diversify economically and become more resilient to realise its full potential, the head of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development said Thursday. Read more »
June 23, 2022
Africa: IMF Calls for Good Governance, Stronger Anti-Corruption Measures on the Continent
The African Union and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) convened a two-day meeting on good governance and corruption in Botswana to discuss how Africa can reap the benefits of… Read more »
Africa: IMF's Antoinette Sayeh Speaks on Good Governance in Sub-Saharan Africa - Opportunities and Lessons
AllAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo spoke to the International Monetary Fund's Deputy Managing Director Antoinette Sayeh who recently attended a high level conference co-organised with… Read more »
June 07, 2022
Africa: Health and Wellbeing - The Bedrock to Safety, Peace and Security #WHA75
The WHO's member states agree that for peace to prevail in conflict affected places, good medical assistance and health resources should be available for all. Some suggested… Read more »
May 28, 2022
Malawi: Poor Pushed to Brink of Hunger in Malawi, UN Agency Warns
Soaring food prices, exacerbated by the war in Ukraine, are pushing poor people to the brink of hunger in Malawi, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has warned. Read more »
May 27, 2022
Africa: E-cigarettes and Youth: Turning Scientific Evidence into Efficient Communication
The 6th annual US e-cigarette summit, 2022 took place on May 17th in Washington DC and virtually. The stated objective of this hybrid event was “facilitating dialogue and… Read more »
May 25, 2022
Africa: Thousands Sit on Death Row Across The Continent, But Few Are Executed
The number of prisoners executed in sub-Saharan Africa more than doubled in 2021, largely a result of death sentences passed on al-Shabaab militants in Somalia, reports Amnesty… Read more »
May 23, 2022
Africa: Fix Broken Financing to Ensure a #StrongWHO – Appeal from 80 Organizations
Following is a letter from 80 organizations around the world to delegates attending the World Health Assembly #WHA75 calling on Member States to strengthen the World Health… Read more »
May 19, 2022
Africa: AU Sets Sights on Terrorism and Unconstitutional Regime Change
The African Union (AU) will hold an Extraordinary Summit focusing on the challenges of terrorism and violent extremism in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, from the May 28, 2022, with a… Read more »
May 12, 2022
Africa: Tobacco - Are Sustainability and Profit Compatible?
The Global Tobacco and Nicotine Forum (GTNF) organized a virtual In Focus meeting on the topic of sustainability on the 5th of May. Read more »
April 22, 2022
Africa: Transformative Leadership: The Solution to Global Health and Climate Crises #AfricaClimateCrisis
As the world tentatively moves toward recovery from what we hope is the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic, we are reminded that an even larger threat remains: climate change. Read more »
April 04, 2022
Africa: 28 Years Later, the African Union Remembers Rwanda
April 7 marks the start of Kwibuka, the commemoration period of the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, a cataclysmic event which saw one million killed in barely 100 days. Read more »
April 01, 2022
Africa: Don't Turn the Page on Covid - It's Not Through with Us Yet
As Special Envoys of the World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General on Covid-19, we have watched in dismay as the world attempts – too soon, in our opinion – to… Read more »