August 17, 2023
Africa: No Peace, More Poverty for Sub-Saharan Africa
In 1990, about half of the population in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia and two-thirds in East Asia and the Pacific were living in extreme poverty (defined as living on less… Read more »
August 16, 2023
Ethiopia: Sexual Violence Survivors in Tigray Need Urgent Medical, Psychological and Economic Support
The war in Tigray, northern Ethiopian, led to sexual and gender-based violence against women, but when Hilina Berhanu Degefa, researcher, gender policy expert and co-founder of the… Read more »
Africa: World Leaders Need to Prioritize the More Than 1 Billion People Living in Informal Settlements
When representatives from dozens of countries gathered recently at the UN High Level Political Forum in New York to share progress on their efforts to achieve the UN's 17… Read more »
Africa: Pre-Colonial Delicacy Could Help Food Security and Climate Change #AfricaClimateHope
Kenya's fight for food security may have just gone 'Old School' as Egerton University dons win a grant to help bring back a pre-colonial delicacy that was gradually sliding its way… Read more »
Africa: Reintegration Assistance for Migrants Going Home
Reintegration assistance for migrants returning to their countries of origin is becoming increasingly salient. Germany and the EU cooperate closely with countries of origin to… Read more »
Africa: World Bank Climate Finance Plan Little Help, Unfair
The World Bank plans to use public funds to subsidize private finance, ostensibly to mobilize much more capital to address the climate crisis. But the new plan is likely to be a… Read more »
August 15, 2023
Kenya: Cost of Living Protests Met With Police Repression - Accountability Needed
Protests against the high cost of living in Kenya have been met with police violence. Talks are currently underway between government and opposition - but whatever results will… Read more »
Africa: A Common African Approach to Environmental Challenges, Now & for the Future
There has never been a time in human history when collaboration between nations was more sorely needed than now, and there is no place that would benefit more from it than in… Read more »
August 14, 2023
Africa: Political Will and Investment Will Score the Goal for Zero Hunger
A world free from hunger is possible, but it demands political will, investment, and effective policies to transform agriculture and rural development, says Alvaro Lario, President… Read more »
August 11, 2023
West Africa: Russia Upstages Neo-Colonialist France in West Africa
Going back to the 16th century and continuing through the late 1960s, France was described as the world's second largest colonial power--just behind the British Empire. Read more »
August 10, 2023
Zimbabwe: Disappearing Fish Spell Hard Times for Women in Zimbabwe
Zimbabwe's ballooning informal sector has, in recent years, spawned the over-exploitation of the country's natural resources, with the fisheries taking some of the most felt… Read more »
Africa: Requiem for the UN Security Council - Towards a UN Charter Review Conference
The world's institutions are ill-prepared and poorly designed to effectively address global challenges such as major power conflicts, pandemics, the climate catastrophe, refugee… Read more »
August 09, 2023
Africa: Taking Stock of Two Decades of Trailblazing Protocol On Women's Rights in Africa
It promised to be the most defining, groundbreaking, and transformative protocol on African women's rights. Specific in its approach, broad in its reach, and unique in its… Read more »
Africa: Mining Revenues Undermined
The primary commodity price boom early this century has often been attributed to a commodity 'super-cycle', i.e., a price upsurge greater than what might be expected in 'normal'… Read more »
August 08, 2023
Africa: A Flawed GDP Bypasses Women's Unpaid Care Work
Last week the IMF offered a cautious estimate of positive global economic growth for this year, warning 'we are on track, but not out of the woods'. But with the IMF and… Read more »
Africa: G20 - Cutting Food Loss and Waste Is an Opportunity to Improve Food Security
The writer is President & CEO, The Global Food Banking Network Read more »
August 07, 2023
West Africa: France, Russia, Ecowas in Battle for Soul of West Africa
On July 26 2023 a man named Colonel-Major Amadou Abdramane, flanked by soldiers with military fatigues, appeared on Niger's national television to announce the execution of a coup.… Read more »
Africa: From Crisis to Resilience - We Need a New Recipe to Combat Hunger
The fragile state of global food systems has reached a crossroads. Recent headlines underscore the profound challenges we now confront. Read more »
August 04, 2023
Africa: Stubborn and Persistent - the Gender Pay Gap Refuses to Budge
By Jemimah Njuki and Jocelyn Chu Read more »
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwean Farmers Turn to Agroecology to Feed Their Families #AfricaClimateHope
When Nelson Mudzingwa arrived in the Shashe farming area in Mashava in Masvingo, about 294 kilometres from the capital Harare, in the early 2000s, the land was barren, with no hope… Read more »
August 03, 2023
Africa: Revisiting the Water-Energy Nexus for a Changing Climate #AfricaClimateHope
By Philippe Benoit and Anne-Sophie Corbeau Read more »
Nigeria: How Nigeria's Legal System Is Failing to Safeguard Widows' Rights
In February this year, Chichi Okonkwo not only lost her husband but was stripped of everything they owned together. Her husband was severely injured in a car accident about a month… Read more »
August 02, 2023
Africa: Clock Is Ticking for Food Security in Africa, Says New IITA Head
"My key message is really simple," says Dr Simeon Ehui, the newly-appointed director general of the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, which works with partners… Read more »
Africa: Climate Change Is Making Us Sick, Says WHO Envoy #AfricaClimateCrisis
Climate change is making us sick. It has become urgent to build resilient health systems to secure humanity's well-being, says the special envoy for climate change and health of… Read more »
Africa: Government Health Financing for All, Not Insurance
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Nazihah Noor Read more »