Africa: Toothless Global Financial Architecture Fuelling Africa's Climate Crisis

Africa needs approximately USD 579.2 billion in adaptation finance over the period 2020 to 2030, and yet the current adaptation flows are five to 10 times below estimated needs. Read more »

Africa: Africa's Potential - Leading Food System Transformation and Climate Resilience

By Angela Churie Kallhauge, Ishmael Sunga and Serah Makka Read more »

Zimbabwe: Invasive Species, a Fast-Riding Horsemen Galloping the Biodiversity Apocalypse

Mango farmer Eufria Nyadome used to earn USD 60 from selling a 20-litre bucket of fresh mangoes and now can barely make USD 20 even though her mango trees are giving a good yield.… Read more »

Africa: Civil Society Organizations Unite to Urge Public Development Banks to Change the Way Development Is Done

In the midst of a complex web of crises, spanning climate change, biodiversity depletion, constraints on civic space and mounting debt burdens, civil society organizations and… Read more »

Africa: 'I Am Because You Are' - Climate Justice Through the Spirit of Ubuntu

Ameenah Gurib-Fakim argues that Innovative global development finance ecosystems are needed to unlock equitable international financing flows while preserving the fiscal… Read more »

West Africa: What Niger's Coup Says About U.S. Security Assistance in the Sahel

In what has become an all too familiar phenomenon, U.S.-trained security personnel have been implicated in the July 26th coup that deposed Niger's democratically elected president,… Read more »

Africa: Africa Climate Summit - a Critical Opportunity for Collective Action On Climate Change

As an African, I have seen first-hand the devastating effects of climate change. I have met communities displaced by floods in Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe. I have spoken to… Read more »

West Africa: 'Investing' Key to the Prevention of Military Coups - UN

The United Nations says increased investment in the Sahel region will assist in preventing military coups. This after military officers in Gabon announced a seizure of power from… Read more »

Africa: Digging Africa Deeper Into Hunger - Annual Green Revolution Forum Ignores Widespread Failure of Its Push for Industrialized Agriculture

As the adage goes, when you find yourself stuck in a hole, stop digging. As African leaders and their philanthropic and bilateral sponsors prepare for another glitzy African Green… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya's Population Growth Decreases As More Women Embrace Modern Family Planning

According to a family planning brief, more than 370 million women in middle and low-income countries were finally embracing modern contraception to help curb unintended… Read more »

Africa: UN Must Reclaim Multilateral Governance From Pretenders

International governance arrangements are in trouble. Condemned as 'dysfunctional' by some, multilateral agreements have been discarded or ignored by the powerful except when… Read more »

Ethiopia: International Systems Are Key for Ethiopia's Security and Development Amidst Renewed War

Less than a year since warring parties in Ethiopia signed a peace agreement, the country is on the brink of renewed bloodshed following escalating hostilities between government… Read more »

Africa: Unlocking Africa's Potential - Strengthening Partnerships for Sustainable Progress

At this year's G7 summit in Japan, global leaders emphasized the importance of unity as the world navigates grave threats to multilateralism. The message was clear - trusted global… Read more »

Africa: UN's Annual Culture of Peace Forum Remains Derailed - & Civil Society Bypassed

14 June has become a black day for the UN High Forum on The Culture of Peace (HLF-CoP) convened by the successive Presidents of the UN General Assembly since 2012. Read more »

Africa: Vaccine Equality Is As Vital for Livestock As for People

Enrique Hernández Pando is Executive Director, Commercial Development & Impact, GALVmed Read more »

Senegal: Democracy in the Balance?

Civic space is deteriorating in Senegal ahead of next February's presidential election. Recent protests have been met with lethal violence and internet and social media… Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »