Africa: Investment in Irrigation Systems Is Vital in Preparing for the Next Climate Shock

When the African continent experiences erratic rains, crops fail, leaving millions of people facing hunger. Read more »

Zimbabwe: How Saving Cattle in Zimbabwe Is Saving Its Lions

A 12-year-old male lion slipped out of Zimbabwe's Hwange National Park one winter morning and killed a 7-year-old boy in a village it wandered into. Read more »

Africa: Midwives - the Workforce That Will Determine Maternal and Newborn Survival and Africa's Future

Tonight, thousands of women across Africa will give birth. Whether they survive to see daylight will largely depend on where they live, how quickly they reach care, and whether the… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: WHO Announces New Ebola Vaccine Guidelines for the DR Congo

While Uganda announced the end of its Ebola outbreak last week, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to battle its deadliest Ebola outbreak to date. As of September… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Rangelands Are the Frontline of Resilience - COP17 Showed Why

Across the Kenya-Tanzania rangelands, communities have long understood a reality that the global community is increasingly recognising: healthy rangelands support livelihoods,… Read more »

Seychelles: Between the Reef and the Stars - a Reflection On Humanity's Twin Longings.

There is an older wisdom, quieter than the noise of our times, that whispers a simple truth: we are not the architects of nature, only its guests. Long before there were nations,… Read more »

Africa: Strengthen Africa's Seed Systems El Niño Threat Becomes Reality Again

As climate disasters frequent across the African continent, governments have been promoting climate-smart innovations, including the development of drought-resistant crops. Read more »

Africa: Africa Has the Answers to Its Food Security Challenges. What It Needs Is the Architecture to Act On Them

As leaders gather in Kigali for the Africa Food Systems Forum, CGIAR's Ismahane Elouafi argues that Africa must connect proven agricultural innovation with the finance,… Read more »

Africa: The Drylands Dividend - the Smart Investment for Powering a Water-Scarce World

NAIROBI, Kenya, Sep 1 2026 (IPS) - Open a can of something fizzy and the reason the sugar doesn't separate immediately is gum arabic, tapped by hand from acacia trees across the… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Pastoralists Need More Than COP17's $1.2 Billion Rangelands Pledge

When the rains fail across Tanzania's northern Maasai Steppe, herders drive their cattle farther in search of pasture and water. Read more »

Zambia: Zambia - an Uneven Contest, an Easy Win

On 24 August, police sealed off access to Zambia's courts, closed the day before the deadline for petitions to challenge the results of the 13 August presidential election. The… Read more »

Uganda: Uganda Announces End of Ebola Outbreak, Yet Regional Risks Remain

Following 42 consecutive days without a new confirmed case, The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have… Read more »

South Africa: South Africa's Anti-Immigrant Violence Slows SDG Goals, Rips Apart Africans' Free Movement Call

The xenophobic protests against Malawians, Nigerians, Zimbabweans, and other Africans in South Africa not only created a humanitarian crisis but also jeopardised the achievement of… Read more »

Africa: GEF Proposes $140 Million Program to Strengthen Drought Resilience

For pastoralists in Arvaikheer -- a village in Mongolia's dry central plains -- rain can determine whether there is enough grass for cattle to roam, whether waterholes are… Read more »

Tanzania: New Emergency Care Skills Help Tanzania's Frontline Doctors Save Lives

The 14-year-old girl arrived at the hospital fighting for her life. After a tragic hit-and-run car accident, she was rushed into the emergency department with serious abdominal… Read more »

Africa: World Humanitarian Day - Protect Aid Workers Against Drones

World Humanitarian Day celebrates humanitarian workers and the life-saving services they provide under the most complex and often dangerous conditions. Read more »

Kenya: Nairobi Biodiversity Talks Set the Stage for Key COP17 Decisions

Despite record participation in global biodiversity reporting and planning processes, countries remain off track to meet the world's 2030 biodiversity goals, according to… Read more »

Africa: Western-Led Green Revolution Failing Africa

CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA / KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, Aug 17 2026 (IPS) - As AGRA turns 20, a new report exposes its worsening failure to double productivity and incomes and halve… Read more »

Africa: African Rights Advocates Coordinate Response to Family Law Backlash

Campaigners say anti-rights movements are increasingly using family law to challenge women's rights to inheritance, property, divorce and child custody. Read more »

Malawi: Malawi Bets On Battery Storage to Climate-Proof Its Fragile Power Grid

For years, Malawi's electricity supply has been at the mercy of droughts, floods and cyclones that have repeatedly exposed the vulnerability of a power system heavily dependent on… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Where Some See Waste, Others See Opportunity - Young Sierra Leoneans Fight Against Electronic Waste, Plastic Pollution

Growing up, Peter George, a young innovator in Bo District in Southern Region, Sierra Leone, watched people dump electronic waste near the farmland where his grandmother cultivated… Read more »

Burkina Faso: Burkina Faso's Cancelled Democracy

Burkina Faso's charismatic young military leader, army captain Ibrahim Traoré, has stopped pretending. In April, he declared that people should 'forget about the question of… Read more »

Africa: New Chickpea Variety to Drive Climate Resilience in Africa

New chickpea seed research and production have become the new frontier of climate resilience in southern Africa as farmers battle failing cereal production. Read more »

Gambia: Female Genital Mutilation - Winning the Argument, Losing the Funding

Last August, a one-month-old girl in The Gambia bled to death after being subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM), a practice that had been illegal in the country since 2015.… Read more »

Kenya: From the Foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, Magnolia Athletics Camp Is Helping Girls Stay in School

Before sunrise each morning, 19-year-old Josephine Sembeyo joins dozens of teenage runners leaving Magnolia Athletics Camp for training beneath the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. Read more »