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 »

Africa: African Union Blamed for Rights Abuses in Conflicts

The African Union is partly to blame for continuing human rights abuses in Africa's conflicts, says the human rights group, Amnesty International. Read more »

Africa: Vaccine Nationalism Generates Inequality and Instability, Says Report

The "rampant vaccine nationalism" of wealthy nations and corporations – which saw less than eight percent of Africans fully vaccinated against Covid-19 by the end of 2021… Read more »

Africa: Sexual Violence Soared During Covid Lockdowns, Reports Amnesty

Coronavirus lockdowns have contributed to “soaring rates” of sexual and gender-based violence across Africa, says a new report. And “almost all actors” in… Read more »

Tanzania: Masaai Way of Life Threatened by Govt Plans for Trophy Hunting #AfricaClimateCrisis

More than one thousand community members in Northern Tanzania gathered to protest against the government's plan to evict people of Loliondo from their ancestral land. According to… Read more »

Cameroon: 'How Can You Throw Us Back?' - Three Stories of Asylum-Seekers Expelled by the U.S.

An excerpt from a report issued by Human Rights Watch on the plight of Cameroonians who were denied asylum and deported from the United States by the Trump administration, to be… Read more »

South Africa: Another Seismic Survey Legal Battle Looms for South Africa #AfricaClimateCrisis

Environmental activists are preparing for another legal battle against a planned seismic survey. This comes less than a month after the Makhanda High Court granted an interdict… Read more »

Africa: Covid-19 Brings 10 Challenges That Hinders Africa's Path to Recovery

Africa faces 10 key governance challenges it must resolve in order for it to fully recover from the Covid-19 outbreak, according to this report by the Mo Ibrahim… Read more »

Africa: Historic World Heath Assembly Session Offers New Chance to Prepare for Future Pandemics

Five million lives worldwide have already been lost to Covid, and the WHO/ACT-A grimly predict another 5 million more lives will be lost in months to come. Alarmingly also,… Read more »

Nigeria: 'It's Not Enough to Save Lives, We Must Do It Sustainably' - Temie Giwa-Tubosun | Transcript

AllAfrica's Juanita Williams talked with Nigerian entrepreneur Temie Giwa-Tubosun, who not only built her healthcare, technology and logistics company Lifebank from the ground up… Read more »

Nigeria: The Vision That Drives Lifebank Founder Temie Giwa-Tubosun

"I don't sit here and say, back me because I'm a woman, I say back me because I'm doing something that is great, back me because we're going to be great. We're going to prove once… Read more »

South Africa: No Time for Fossil Fools, Say Activists on South Africa's Push for Coal Power #AfricaClimateCrisis

Greenpeace Africa has criticised Minerals and Energy Minister Gwede Mantashe, who at the opening of the Africa Energy Week conference in Cape Town called for "African solidarity"… Read more »

Africa: Peacebuilding Needs More Women, Youth - What's Holding Them Back?

AllAfrica's Silence The Guns series focuses on peacebuilding on the continent. Today we take a closer look at the role of women and youth in peacebuilding in Africa. There's no… Read more »

South Africa: Is Africa's Biggest Polluter Capable of Transformation?

The public utility which supplies the vast majority of South Africa's electricity, Eskom, is the biggest polluter on the continent, according to a local non-governmental… Read more »

Senegal: Senegal Has A Law Criminalizing Slavery - Here Is Why That Matters

It has been eleven years since Senegal's National Assembly passed a law declaring the Atlantic slave trade and the enslavement of African people a crime against humanity. The law… Read more »

Africa: How Will Global Health Be Decolonised?

Recently, Dr. Ngozi Erondu and colleagues wrote an open letter in the journal Nature Medicine, which called out international funders of science and development in Africa and has… Read more »

Africa: Peacebuilding in the Sahel, Mozambique and South Sudan - Webinar Transcript

This is the transcript of a webinar hosted by AllAfrica that drew upon the research of three scholars about peacebuilding in Africa: Dr. Shuvai Busuman Nyoni, executive… Read more »

Africa: World Bank and AllAfrica Mark International Women’s Day with Webinar - 'COVID-19, Revealer of African Women’s Incredible Resilience'

In this time of pandemic, Sub-Saharan African women have, more than ever before, shown extraordinary resilience. In response to adversity, the strength and intelligence of African… Read more »

Africa: African Women’s Incredible Resilience in Times of COVID-19

The World Bank and AllAfrica Global Media Group will jointly organize, on Monday March 8, 2021, a virtual panel on the topic: COVID-19, Revealer of African women's incredible… Read more »

Africa: Where 'Charities' May Harm

U.S. President Joseph Biden's pledge to implement a policy of cooperation with other countries, while supporting human rights and democracy, was widely welcomed as a needed return… Read more »

Burundi: Rights Abuses Continue Despite Transition

An excerpt on Burundi from the annual Human Rights Watch publication, World Report 2021: Read more »

Africa: Civic Rights Were Eroded Across Africa in 2020

CIVICUS , the global civil society alliance, rates civic space in six Sub-Saharan African states as " closed", in 21 as "repressed" and in 14 as "obstructed". … Read more »

Africa: People Power Under Attack 2020 - Africa

An excerpt from the CIVICUS Monitor report: Read more »

Africa: Faith, Philanthropy, Community - How to Save Hundreds of Thousands from Malaria Amid Covid-19

The J.C. Flowers Foundation and Friends of the Global Fight Against AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria ('Friends') are focusing attention on how faith leaders, philanthropists and… Read more »

West Africa: "COVID-19 Pandemic Has Led Us To Rethink Our Strategy" - Nathalie Gabala, Mastercard Foundation

The Mastercard Foundation is committed to supporting economic recovery programs in Africa to enable states to recover from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. On the first French… Read more »