February 03
Africa: Protecting Africa's Ocean Future and Why a Precautionary Pause On Deep-Sea Mining Matters
VICTORIA, Seychelles, Feb 3 2026 (IPS) - The world is entering a decisive period for the future of the ocean. With the High Seas Treaty coming into force and meaningful progress… Read more »
Africa: Support Science in Halting Global Biodiversity Crisis - King Charles
British Monarch King Charles says science is the solution to protecting nature and halting global biodiversity loss, which is threatening humanity's survival. Read more »
Africa: Explainer - Why Nature Is Everyone's Business
Our food, fuel, and fortunes come from nature, but as these resources are turned into profits, the balance between exploiting and replenishing the planet is ever more precarious. Read more »
February 02
Africa: To Develop a Continent, Africa Must Nourish Its Children
Hunger shadowed Mercy Lung'aho's childhood, fueling her campaign to promote nutrition as a foundation for Africa's development. Read more »
January 28
West Africa: Gambia's Supreme Court to Decide On FGM Ban
Gambia's Supreme Court is considering whether a law protecting women and girls from female genital mutilation (FGM) is constitutional. The practice, common in Gambia, often… Read more »
January 26
Uganda: Democracy in Name Only
When Ugandans went to the polls on 15 January, the outcome was never in doubt. As voting began, mobile internet services ground to a halt, ensuring minimal scrutiny as President… Read more »
January 23
Africa: UN Peacekeepers and Associated Personnel Killed in Malicious Attacks in 2025
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Southern Africa: Moving Towards Agroecological Food Systems in Southern Africa
In a quiet village known as Nkhondola, in Chongwe District, Eastern Zambia, Royd Michelo and his wife, Adasila Kanyanga, have transformed their five-acre piece of land into a… Read more »
Africa: Beyond Shifting Power - Rethinking Localisation Across the Humanitarian Sector
For the last decade, many in the foreign aid sector have emphasised the need for localisation, and in the last 5 years, the calls have been louder than ever. I am one of such… Read more »
January 21
Kenya: Thousands of Kenya's Smallholder Coffee Farmers Risk Losing EU Market As Deforestation Law Takes Effect
For the last twenty years, Sarah Nyaga, a smallholder farmer from Embu County in central Kenya, has farmed coffee. Like most across Kenya, she relies on the export market. A… Read more »
January 20
Guinea: Guinea's Path to Electoral Autocracy
In December, the dust settled on Guinea's first presidential election since the military took control in a 2021 coup. General Mamady Doumbouya stayed in power after receiving 87… Read more »
January 19
Tanzania: How Extreme Weather Is Testing Tanzania's $2 Billion Electric Railway Dream
Around the world, railways are considered as pillars of climate action. Electric trains produce fewer emissions than road or air transport. Yet the experience of Tanzania's… Read more »
January 15
Africa: What Next? United States Exits Key Entities, Vital Climate Treaties in Major Retreat From Global Cooperation
President Donald Trump has escalated efforts to further distance the United States from international organizations and entities focused on climate, the environment, and energy.… Read more »
January 09
Africa: Excluding Food Systems From Climate Deal Is a Recipe for Disaster
Food solutions were on display everywhere around COP30--from the 80 tonnes of local and agroecological meals served to concrete proposals for tackling hunger--but none of this made… Read more »
January 08
Sudan: Sudan's War Nears 1,000 Days
As Sudan approaches 1,000 days of civil war, late December and early January saw a brutal escalation of violence, with drone strikes hitting areas at the center of the country's… Read more »
Africa: Africa Squeezed Between Import Substitution and Dependency Syndrome
Squeezed between import substitution and dependency syndrome, a condition characterized by a set of associated economic symptoms--that is rules and regulations--majority of African… Read more »
January 07
Africa: Online Abuse Is Real Violence - - and Africa's Women and Girls Are Paying the Price
- New estimates show that violence against women and girls remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world - and that one of its fastest-growing frontiers is… Read more »
December 30, 2025
Sudan: Sudan's Crisis - Mass Killings Continue While the World Looks Away
Satellite images show corpses piled high in El Fasher, North Darfur, awaiting mass burial or cremation as the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) militia tries to cover up the scale of its… Read more »
December 29, 2025
Zambia: 'Zambia Has Environmental Laws and Standards On Paper - the Problem Is Their Implementation'
CIVICUS discusses environmental accountability in Zambia with Christian-Geraud Neema, Africa editor at the China Global South Project, an independent journalism initiative that… Read more »
December 27, 2025
South Africa: The Fight Against Femicide - Victories and Setbacks in 2025
Hours before world leaders gathered in Johannesburg for the 2025 G20 summit in November, hundreds of South African women wearing black lay down in a city park for 15 minutes -- one… Read more »
December 23, 2025
Libya: 'From the Moment They Enter Libya, Migrants Risk Being Arbitrarily Arrested, Tortured and Killed'
CIVICUS discusses migrants' rights in Libya with Sarra Zidi, political scientist and researcher for HuMENA, an international civil society organisation (CSO) that advances… Read more »
Nigeria: Will Nnamdi Kanu's Life Sentence End the Violent Agitation for Biafra?
On 20 November 2025, a Nigerian court in Abuja sentenced separatist leader Nnamdi Kanu to life imprisonment after finding him guilty of terrorism and several related offenses,… Read more »
December 22, 2025
Congo-Kinshasa: Day Laborers, Trapped in a Complex War Between M25 Rebels and the DR Congo, Return Home
Fulgence Ndayizeye, a Burundian bicycle taxi driver who used to cross the Congolese-Burundian border every day to support his family, wanted to return home. Read more »
Namibia: Namibia Leads the Way - Honouring 25 Years of Women, Peace and Security
Last November, the streets of Windhoek came alive with the sound of drums and brass as a marching band led a procession of women from Namibia's Defence and security forces. Read more »
December 19, 2025
Kenya: Farmers Can Now Measure and Benefit From Fruit Tree Carbon Trade
Farmers can now know and benefit from their contribution to climate change thanks to a formula that can be used to calculate the amount of carbon stored in fruit trees. Read more »
