March 28, 2023
Africa: African Films of Unesco-Netflix Scheme to Stream
It's a new direction for UNESCO, getting involved in movies, so to speak. The United Nations' cultural agency and Netflix - the global streaming and production company - have… Read more »
March 27, 2023
Africa: Africa's Dark Road to Democracy
The dark road to democracy began with the manner in which the Kenyan Presidential election of August 2022 was handled. Today, the Church in Kenya is calling for dialogue between… Read more »
Kenya: Climate Resilient Indigenous Crops Underutilised Even As Climate Change Threatens to Cripple Food Systems
Elizabeth Njoroge recounts her poverty-stricken upbringing in Ting'ang'a village in the Central part of Kenya, growing up on a diet heavy on Amaranth and pumpkin. Read more »
March 24, 2023
South Africa: Artisanal Miners Face Onerous Obstacles to Become Legal
Greed, poverty, irresponsible legal mining giants which exploited and then abandoned South Africa's mines, together with the government's failure to enforce regulations on the… Read more »
March 23, 2023
Burkina Faso: School Closures Keep More than One Million Scholars Away
Over a million children in Burkina Faso are currently affected by school closures with 6,134 academic institutions shut as of February 2023, an increase of over 40 per cent since… Read more »
Africa: If We Value Human Rights and the Rule of Law, Then We Must Fight for Climate Justice
Human life is sacred and every individual deserves an equal chance in life. We have a common desire, we all want to lead a free, fulfilling existence, with dignity, where our basic… Read more »
March 22, 2023
Kenya: Entrepreneur Using Organic Microbes to Unlock Hidden Nutrients in Dairy Feeds
Using naturally occurring microbes, a Kenyan entrepreneur has developed a molasses-based supplement that pre-ferments animal feeds to unlock all the necessary nutrients that would… Read more »
Africa: Why Gender Transformative Leadership Is Key to Ending TB - for Good
Despite being both curable and preventable, the TB pandemic is a global health crisis and a leading cause of death worldwide. COVID-19 brought into sharp focus how women bear the… Read more »
March 21, 2023
Rwanda: Brac International Signs MOU With Rwanda to Empower People in Extreme Poverty
Against a brutally painful historical backdrop, a story of hope and resilience unfolds in Rwanda. Read more »
Africa: Climate Financing - World Bank Must Respond
It's one of the great injustices of this era that countries contributing negligible amounts to global carbon emissions are now feeling the most harrowing impacts of climate change. Read more »
March 20, 2023
Africa: War Criminals & Military Aggressors Who Occupy Seats in the Security Council
Come April 1, a post-Ukraine Russia, will preside over the UN Security Council in a month-long presidency on the basis of alphabetical rotation. Read more »
Africa: Protecting and Managing the High Seas
On March 4 2023, the 193 members of the United Nations reached a major milestone. They agreed on a treaty to manage and protect the high seas- the marine areas that lie outside the… Read more »
March 17, 2023
Malawi: Belief in Witchcraft Costing Lives of Elderly Women in Malawi
In December last year, a video clip went viral of two elderly women surrounded by a charged-up crowd and engulfed in a cloud of dust as they filled up a grave in a village in the… Read more »
March 16, 2023
Africa: Health - It's Time for Women to Lead the Sector
Women health workers are more than two thirds of the health workforce and represent 90% of the world's frontline health workers, yet hold less than a quarter of senior leadership… Read more »
March 15, 2023
Africa: Managing Water Sustainably Is Key to the Future of Food and Agriculture
In contrast to its strategic role as an essential resource to help achieve community development and poverty alleviation globally, groundwater has remained a poorly understood and… Read more »
Zimbabwe: 'Stone-Age' Donkey-Drawn Carts Ply Zimbabwe's Abandoned Remote Routes
From the Masvingo-Beitbridge highway in Zimbabwe at a spot popularly known as Turn-P, the road passing through Neshuro Township has been degraded, disused, and derelict for over… Read more »
Africa: Civic Space - the Bedrock of Democracy - Is Scarce & Contested
On 29 and 30 March, the US government, in partnership with Costa Rica, Netherlands, South Korea and Zambia, will co-host the second virtual Summit for Democracy. Several elected… Read more »
March 14, 2023
West Africa: Terrorism And Its Impacts On Water Access in the Sahel
The writer is Regional Executive Secretary of the Global Water Partnership in West Africa (GWP-WA) Read more »
Africa: Fighter Planes? Yes. Rubber Bullets? No
When the US was planning to sell fighter planes to a politically-repressive regime in South-east Asia in a bygone era, a spokesman for a human rights organization, responding to a… Read more »
March 13, 2023
Africa: 'Outright Hatred' Towards Muslims, Risen to 'Epidemic Proportions'
Islamophobia is a 'fear, prejudice and hatred of Muslims that leads to provocation, hostility and intolerance by means of threatening, harassment, abuse, incitement and… Read more »
Africa: Parliamentarians Pledge to Act On Grim Realities of Child Marriage, Gender-Based Violence
Child marriage, gender-based violence (GBV), sexuality education, religion, and tradition came under the spotlight during a conference, Arab and Asian Parliamentarians' Meeting to… Read more »
Kenya: Solar Powered Freezer Improving Immunization Coverage in Hard-to-Reach Rural Villages
Up until 2019, nurses in three health facilities located in the semi-arid south-eastern Kenya region of Makueni County struggled to bring critical health services closer to a… Read more »
Africa: Pandemic Accord Text Falls Short of Expectations
As countries recently gathered in Geneva for the fourth round of negotiations on the WHO proposed pandemic treaty or accord, close examination of the current text by civil society… Read more »
Africa: BP's Shift 'Back to Petroleum' Prods Consideration of a Climate Oil Price Cap
BP, the oil company that previously brought us "Beyond Petroleum" and more recently robust corporate climate goals, has announced a return in emphasis to its traditional business… Read more »
March 10, 2023
Africa: Next Ebola Outbreak 'Not a Matter of If, but When'
It is two months since the World Health Organization declared Uganda free of the most recent Sudan ebolavirus, which killed 55 people. Read more »