Africa: Can Africa Survive the Global Aid Squeeze? Yes, but It Will Take Financial Discipline

Africa faces declining aid, rising debt, climate pressure and a weakening global order. Official development assistance, the technical term for foreign aid, fell by 23.1% in 2025,… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: World's First AI-Designed Vaccine Explained

Researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed what they describe as a fundamentally new type of vaccine using artificial intelligence (AI). The vaccine's key component… Read more »

Africa: Ebola May Have Spread Beyond Africa. How Are Health Authorities Responding?

The latest Ebola outbreak is showing no signs of slowing. Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Ebola Outbreak in the DRC - Four Reasons It Will Be Hard to Contain

By the second week of the latest Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo it was already clear that containing the spread of the haemorrhagic disease was proving to be… Read more »

Africa: The World Bank Wants to Change the Way It Manages Complaints - the Fixes That Could Make It Better

The World Bank made history in 1994 by creating the Inspection Panel, the first independent accountability mechanism at any international organisation. Its function is to… Read more »

Africa: I've Investigated a Hantavirus Outbreak. Here's What I Can Tell You About the Cruise Ship Cluster

The cruise ship cluster of hantavirus cases continues to grow. The World Health Organization reports that as of May 6 there were eight cases, three of whom are confirmed by… Read more »

Kenya: Scientists Have Found a Safer Way to Hunt for the Next Pandemic Virus

The world is full of animal viruses, and we're pretty sure that one of them will cause the next pandemic. To prevent pandemics, we need to predict which of the vast number of… Read more »

Africa: The IMF Enjoys Preferred Creditor Status - Why It Shouldn't Be the Judge When It Comes to Other Lenders

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) should not be an arbiter of discussions about which other multilateral financial institutions should qualify for preferred creditor status.… Read more »

Africa: The Transatlantic Slave Trade Is the Gravest Crime Against Humanity - Why the UN Declaration Matters

The resolution passed by United Nations General Assembly on 25 May 2026 seeking recognition of the transatlantic slave trade as the "gravest crime against humanity" potentially… Read more »

Africa: African Union - How Does It Make a Difference in Everyday Life and What Would Happen If It Didn't Exist?

The African Union held its 39th Assembly of Heads of State and Government in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in February 2026. The two-day assembly produced the usual number of decisions… Read more »

Africa: Too Little, Too Concentrated - Why AI Start-up Funding in Africa Needs Rethinking

One year after the AI Summit in Paris, the international community will meet again this week in New Delhi for the Global Summit on Artificial Intelligence, whose objective will… Read more »

Angola: Angola's Lobito Corridor Is Being Revived - but Who Stands to Gain?

The Lobito Corridor is a massive infrastructure axis linking Angola's shore on the west of Africa to the mineral-rich interior. Built in the first three decades of the 1900s to… Read more »

Africa: U.S. Exit From the World Health Organization Marks a New Era in Global Health Policy - Here's What the U.S., and World, Will Lose

The U.S. departure from the World Health Organization became official in late January 2026, according to the Trump administration - a year after President Donald Trump signed an… Read more »

Africa: How the U.S. Withdrawal From WHO Could Affect Global Health Powers and Disease Threats

Hours after Donald Trump began his second term as United States president on Jan. 20, 2024, he signed an executive order to end American membership in the World Health Organization… Read more »

Africa: Telling People to Use Antibiotics Responsibly Isn't Enough. What Will Work Instead

Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause up to 10 million deaths each year by 2050, making it one of the most pressing global health challenges of this century. In 2021, an… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Power Grabs Are Rising - the AU's Mixed Response Is Making Things Worse

Hardly a month goes by without news of another unconstitutional change of government on the African continent. Read more »

Africa: TotalEnergies - French Court Ruling Over False Climate Claims Could Boost African Cases Against Polluters

A court ruling in France could give African countries more power to hold corporations to account when they pretend to be environmentally friendly. The Paris Judicial Court found… Read more »

Africa: South Africa's G20 Presidency - Diplomatic Victory, but a Weak Final Declaration

US president Donald Trump's efforts to derail a successful wrap-up of the G20 summit in Johannesburg failed. Trump boycotted the meeting and the US told other countries through… Read more »

Africa: This Year's Climate Talks Saw Real Progress - Just Not On Fossil Fuels

It wasn't a comfortable process for the tens of thousands of delegates trying to hash out progress on climate change on the edge of the Amazon in Belém, Brazil. I… Read more »

Africa: Global Inequality Is As Urgent As Climate Change - the World Needs a Panel of Experts to Steer Solutions

Given the escalating scale of inequality in the world, shouldn't countries be banding together to set up an international panel on the issue, along the same lines as the… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Hidden Stillbirth Crisis - New Report Exposes Major Policy and Data Gaps

Nearly one million babies are stillborn in Africa every year. Behind every stillbirth is a mother, a family and a story left untold. Most of these are preventable, many unrecorded,… Read more »

Africa: COP30 - Africa Needs Funding to Adapt to the Climate Crisis - What Negotiators Need to Do to Secure It

Since it was set up in 1992, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change has focused mainly on mitigation. Mitigating the effects of climate change is all about… Read more »

Africa: COP30 Report Reveals How Climate Change Is Spreading Infectious Diseases to New Regions

Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and extreme weather events create ideal conditions for pathogens and their vectors - such as mosquitoes, midges and ticks - to… Read more »

Africa: Culture As a Sustainable Development Goal? It's Starting to Become a Reality

Eight global millennium development goals were established in 2000 by member states of the United Nations (UN) and endorsed by other multilateral organisations. They ranged from… Read more »

Africa: Climate Tipping Points Are Close - Scientists Urge Radical Action Before It's Too Late

New research has found that the world has reached the first of many Earth system tipping points. These will cause catastrophic harm unless humanity takes urgent action. Read more »