Africa: What Africa Needs to Deal with Recurring Drought #AfricaClimateCrisis

According to the United Nations, World Food Programme (WFP), up to 13 million people living in the Horn of Africa are facing severe hunger because of record breaking droughts… Read more »

Africa: Let Us 'Waste' Children No More - It's Time for a Reset

Young children who are skin and bones are called “wasted”. The root of the verb “waste” is “to devastate, ruin”, which sadly is all too apt.… Read more »

Africa: Key Actors Commit to Smart Nutrition, Ensuring Faster Progress to Ending Malnutrition

In the world, 1 in 9 people are hungry or undernourished, and 1 in 3 adults are overweight or obese. Progress towards nutrition target is too slow, progress in Eastern and Southern… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Youth Finds its Power in Transforming Food Systems

With  one in every five   young people today coming from Africa, it has become increasingly hard to ignore us. Read more »

Africa: World's Biggest Stars Come Out to Support Global Citizen's Recovery Plan For The World

"The urgency to get a vaccine to everyone, everywhere cannot be underestimated. As a country, we will be joining efforts to help the world recover better by ending the pandemic as… Read more »

Mozambique: UN to Shine Urgent Spotlight On Cabo Delgado Crisis

After developing under the radar for a number of years, what has been described as a humanitarian disaster in Mozambique's northern Cabo Delgado region is now grabbing the United… Read more »

Madagascar: Food Crisis Looms in 'Breadbasket' of Madagascar

Five years of drought have bludgeoned a "breadbasket" region of Madagascar and, along with the coronavirus, have disrupted local labour patterns in the south, resulting in a… Read more »

Africa: Why 2021 Must Be The Nutrition Year of Action in Africa

Tackling poor diets and malnutrition in all its forms Read more »

West Africa: Feeding The Future With Homegrown Cassava, Rice

The United States African Development Foundation (USADF) is celebrating a decade of its Feed the Future campaign, which enables partner organisations to target the root causes of… Read more »

Kenya: The Borehole That Transformed Lives of Turkana's Desert Farmers

Launched in 2014, Natiira Ateni Self Help Group is located in Turkana County, more than 700 kilometres north of Nairobi, Kenya's capital. Natiira Ateni is a phrase in the… Read more »

Africa: Inadequate Diets Are Making Populations Vulnerable to COVID-19

AllAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo spoke with Dr Jane Battersby, an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town's African Centre for Cities, on the need to address malnutrition in… Read more »

Africa: Some Progress, But Africans Still Live With All Forms of Malnutrition - Global Nutrition Report

There are 37 countries worldwide that are fighting all three forms of malnutrition - and 27 of them are in Africa. Read more »

Africa: Food Crisis Looms Amid COVID-19 Crisis

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) recently released a report, warning of potential doubling in the number of people that would face food insecurity due to the ongoing… Read more »

Africa: We Can Make Our World Better - Mark Suzman of Gates Foundation

AllAfrica's Juanita Williams talked with Mark Suzman, the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the world's largest philanthropy. He assumed the position this month. In… Read more »

Africa: Can Africa Feed Africa?

Did you ever think that they will be a time where farmers can monitor their crops or the movement of their animals without having to go to the farm. Read more »

Africa: Using Digital Innovation to Boost Africa's Smallholder Farmers #AGRF2019

The  African Green Revolution Forum is a platform for global and African leaders to develop actionable plans that will move African agriculture forward. Read more »

Africa: How Stunting Robs Economies of Potential Development

According to the World Health Organisation's Global Nutrition Targets 2025 report, the global prevalence of childhood stunting and the total number of stunted children less than 5… Read more »

East Africa: Marine-Based 'Blue Economies' Offer Massive Potential

Developing ocean-based resources in areas such as fisheries, aquaculture, coastal tourism, transport and ports, mining and energy, could generate U.S. $20.8 billion a year for the… Read more »

Africa: 'You're Miserable. You're Beyond Miserable.' - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Having Malaria

For millions of Africans, malaria is a debilitating disease which repeatedly disrupts their lives and their productivity, leaving them "miserable, beyond miserable" every time it… Read more »

Africa: Time Is Now To Scale Up Women's Rights And Nutrition Activism In Africa

Op-ed by Martin Chungong, Secretary-General of IPU, Dr Ibrahim Mayaki, CEO of NEPAD Agency and Nahas Angula, former Prime Minister of Namibia and Convener of the Namibia Alliance… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Shortages Force Slashing of Food Rations in Kasai

Food shortages have forced the UN World Food Programme (WFP) to slash food rations in the conflict-ridden DR Congo province of Kasai, where more than three-quarters of a million… Read more »

Southern Africa: Graca Machel Urges Better Nutrition for Mothers, Children

One of every four children under five years old in southern Africa suffers from stunted growth in that they are too short for their age, often as a result of inadequate nutrition. Read more »

Africa: What the G20 Said on Africa

Excerpts most directly applicable to Africa drawn from the declaration of leaders of the G20 nations, issued after the leaders' summit in Hamburg on July 7 and 8: Read more »

Africa: Poverty is Sexist, Bill and Melinda Gates Say in Annual Letter

Bill and Melinda Gates have released their annual letter, and this time it is addressed to their "dear friend" Warren Buffett, who donated most of his fortune to the Bill and… Read more »

Africa: We Can End Global Hunger - Kofi Annan

For the first time in human history, the end of hunger is within our reach. Read more »