South Africa: Managing Transboundary Aquifers for Peace

Like surface waters, groundwater resources frequently cross international boundaries, potentially igniting disputes among nations that rely on this essential resource.… Read more »

Africa: Industrial Policy, East or West, for Development or War?

Developing countries wanting to pursue industrial policy were severely reprimanded by advocates of the 'neoliberal' Washington Consensus. Now, it is being deployed as a weapon in… Read more »

Ghana: How a Program in Ghana to Create Green Jobs Can Be a Lesson for U.S. Mayors & Across the Globe

For the past eight years, Chiso has collected waste as part of Accra's informal waste management sector. Since arriving in Ghana from Nigeria, he has earned enough to allow him and… Read more »

Africa: Gender Rights - Resistance Against Regression

Global progress on gender rights has slowed almost to a halt. After decades of steady progress, demands for the rights of women and LGBTQI+ people now play out on bitterly… Read more »

Africa: Africans Can Solve the Disease That Haunts Us - - Here's How

I was born in Brakpan, Johannesburg, South Africa, and grew up in eSwatini (known then as Swaziland). People in these two countries share one predominant fear: unemployment. Other… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Beekeeping Offers Opportunity to Zimbabwean Farming Communities

Honeybees quickly react with a sharp and loud buzz sound as beekeeper Tanyaradzwa Kanangira opens one of the wooden horizontal Kenyan top bar hives near a stream in a thick forest… Read more »

Africa: Global South Stagnating Under Heavier Debt Burden

Much higher interest rates - due to Western central banks - are suffocating developing nations, especially the poorest, causing prolonged debt distress and economic stagnation. Read more »

Africa: Pollution - a Threat to Our Groundwater Resources

Groundwater pollution significantly affects the prevalence of waterborne diseases. This form of pollution occurs when hazardous substances, such as pathogens, chemicals, and heavy… Read more »

Nigeria: State Fails to Stem Kidnapping for Ransom Crisis in Nigeria

Lilian Eze still shivers when she recalls the frequent attacks by kidnappers in the Kaduna community she once lived in, in north-central Nigeria. In February 2022, she fled with… Read more »

Africa: It's Africa's Time to Shine, Says UN Under Secretary Claver Gatete

With 20 percent of the global population and vast untapped natural resources, not forgetting its human capital, it is time Africa had its rightful seat at the global table, the… Read more »

Kenya: International Women's Day, 2024 - Inside Women Dominated Seaweed Farms in Kenya's Indian Ocean Waters

Nearly two kilometers into the Indian Ocean from the Mwazaro beach coastline in Lunga Lunga Sub-County, Kwale County, women can be spotted seated in the shallow ocean waters or… Read more »

Africa: International Women's Day, 2024 - Rural Tajik Woman's Road to Empowering Women Living With HIV

This feature is part of a series to mark International Women's Day, March 8. Read more »

Africa: International Women's Day, 2024 - Why Legal Equality Is Key to Women's Economic Rights and Well-Being

The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women's Day, March 8. Read more »

Africa: Spare Us the Token Flowers - International Women's Day Is a Call to Action

Marking International Women's Day as a mere day of celebration is to strip it of its true meaning, a stab in the back of the generations of feminists who fought to make it a… Read more »

Africa: International Women's Day, 2024 - Stop Racially-Biased Attention When Dealing With Sexual Harassment of Women of Color

Recently "Days of Our Lives" star Arianne Zucker sued former co-executive producer Albert Alarr, accusing him of sexual harassment on the set of the long-running daytime show. Read more »

Africa: UNWRA Chief Warns Agency's Fate 'Hangs in the Balance'

UNRWA Commissioner-General Philippe Lazzarini asked the UN General Assembly to urge member states to support the organization's mandate during this period of unprecedented crisis… Read more »

Africa: UN Whistle Blowers Fired for Challenging Risky Investment Policies of the Pension Fund

The UN Ethics Office, established in 2006, has promoted an organizational culture in the world body, including integrity, professionalism, respect for diversity and protection for… Read more »

Africa: 'It is About the Power of the Feminine That is Earth Itself'

One of the most fascinating aspects of International Women's Day is an odd subtext. That this is all about and (only) for women. Really? Since when are the realities of one part of… Read more »

Africa: International Women's Day, 2024 - Investing in Women Is More Than Just Good Economics, It's Crucial to a Sustainable Society

Ponny Lim runs a thriving aquaculture enterprise in Cambodia, growing her business with the support of a United Nations programme that guarantees loans to women entrepreneurs who… Read more »

Africa: UN Environmental Assembly Call for Action to Address Planetary Triple Threat

The Sixth United Nations Environmental Assembly (UNEA-6) ended with delegates calling for firm actions to address the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature loss, and… Read more »

Africa: International Women's Day, 2024 - Progress Hinges On Feminist Leadership

The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women's Day, March 8. Read more »

Africa: International Women's Day, 2024 - the Misogynistic Minority

A minority of the world's population appears to be misogynistic and continues to oppose efforts to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls. The misogynistic minority… Read more »

Africa: International Women's Day, 2024 - Support the Women and Girls Fighting for Rights

This International Women's Day (March 8) comes at a fiercely challenging moment. We can find inspiration, and hope, however, in the women and girls around the world who, often at… Read more »

Nigeria: From Gas to Ash - the Struggle of Nigerian Women Amidst Surging Cooking Gas Prices

One sunny mid-morning in Omu-Aran village, a community in Kwara State, North Central Nigeria, Iyabo Sunday sat beside a firewood stand observing her pot of beans with rice (a… Read more »

Kenya: Air Quality Sensors Boosting Nairobi's Fight Against Air Pollution

Deborah Adhiambo (43) has been battling mild asthma since 2022, a condition she describes as "both a health and economic burden." The mother of three lives within Dandora Estate,… Read more »