June 17
Africa: UN's Development Goals - Rich Nations Lead While World's Poor Lag Far Behind
When the 193-member UN General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution, back in September 2015, the goals were highly ambitious: to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, eliminate… Read more »
June 13
Africa: African Activists Call On the West to Finance Climate Action
As the technical session of the global climate negotiations enters the final stretch in Bonn, Germany, climate activists from Africa have expressed fears that negotiators from the… Read more »
June 12
Africa: Power of Acknowledging White Privilege in Addressing Racism Within United Nations
As we commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre this month, organizations and communities should focus on white privilege as it is a critical but often… Read more »
June 11
Africa: Turning the Tide - Health Community Turns to UNFCC for Inclusivity
There is a rapid realization that climate change is impacting health, which is why the recently adopted World Health Organization's Climate Change and Health Resolution is… Read more »
June 04
Southern Africa: Bringing Drought and Floods, El Niño Hits the Most Fragile in Southern Africa
Kaponde Likando does not know how his family will survive until the next farming season. "We are not going to have anything (to harvest)," said the 60-year-old from Chingobe… Read more »
June 03
Kenya: Biodiversity Meetings in Nairobi End, All Eyes Are Now On COP16
Regions struggling to revise and update their National Biodiversity Plans aligning them with the Global Biodiversity Framework adopted at COP15, will now be given the technical and… Read more »
May 31
Zimbabwe: Maggot Farming Creates Entrepreneurs, Saves Farming Costs in Zimbabwe
Three years ago, 43-year-old Benard Munondo was an "ordinary" Zimbabwean teacher at a local primary school, but now he has turned maggots into gold. Read more »
Chad: Dictatorship Continues By Other Means
On 6 May, people went to the polls in Chad, ostensibly to elect a president who'd usher in democratic civilian rule. Ten days later, the Constitutional Council confirmed there'd be… Read more »
May 30
Africa: South Suffering Due to Powerful Nations' Policies
The World Bank expects the international economic slowdown to be at its worst in over four decades in 2024. This is mainly due to powerful Western nations' contractionary… Read more »
Seychelles: Plastic Soup, Plastic Islands - How Small Island Developing States Can End Plastic Pollution
Scattered over the vast area of our oceans, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are often pictured as blue, serene and beautiful paradises. However, we are risk losing the beauty… Read more »
May 29
Africa: To Tackle Climate Crisis, the World Bank Must Stop Financing Industrial Livestock
Last week, the World Bank Group released a new report that highlights the urgent need to drastically reduce GHG emissions to address the climate crisis and calls on countries to… Read more »
May 28
Africa: Reclaiming the Narrative in African Philanthropy - a Community-Based Organization's Perspective
In recent years, the African philanthropy landscape has been undergoing a profound transformation. Or has it? Historically, the narrative of aid and development in Africa has been… Read more »
May 27
Malawi: Malawi Moves to Regulate Carbon Trading Amid Transparency Concerns in Global Market
Malawi is increasingly pitching carbon trading as a source of revenue it needs to bolster the economy, which is suffering from foreign exchange shortages caused by a large trade… Read more »
Africa: Explainer - Understanding Carbon Trading and Its Rationale
In this explainer, IPS takes a look at carbon emissions trading, which allows an entity, unable to reduce carbon emissions to the required limits, to pay someone who is not only… Read more »
May 23
Africa: Lessons From Youth-Focused 'Future Action Festival' Ahead of UN Summit of the Future
The world has crossed the halfway point to the end of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era amid multiple, unprecedented, and significantly destructive global shocks. Two of… Read more »
Gabon: Democracy, Civic Space and Fundamental Freedoms Are Under Attack, but Civil Society Is Here to Stay
During the Forus network's General Assembly which took place in Gaborone, Botswana, civil society organisations from across 65 countries highlighted the challenges facing them… Read more »
May 22
Africa: International Community Urged to End Impunity for Violence Against Healthcare in Conflicts
Governments and international agencies must do more to end impunity for violence against healthcare, campaigners have urged, as a new report shows that attacks on healthcare during… Read more »
Africa: Small Island Developing States Can Be Nature-Positive Leaders for the World
Small island developing states (SIDS) are scattered across the globe, dotting the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean, the west and east coasts of Africa and the Indian Ocean. Read more »
May 17
Zimbabwe: Rising Temperatures Drive Human-Wildlife Conflict in Zimbabwe
Rising temperatures are being blamed for an increase in human-wildlife conflicts in Zimbabwe as animals such as snakes leave their natural habitat earlier than usual. Read more »
May 15
Africa: Ocean Action On Global Agenda As Negotiations to Save Biodiversity Deepen
The oceans are as fascinating as they are mysterious. Home to the largest animals to ever live on Earth and billions of the tiniest, the top 100 meters of the open oceans host the… Read more »
May 14
Africa: Educating the Mind Without Educating the Heart Is No Education At All
The words above, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, serve as a reminder that we still have a long way to go to in educating ourselves. In doing so, we will naturally… Read more »
Africa: SBSTTA and SBI - Biodiversity Meetings Crucial for the Global South Begin
More than 1,400 delegates are present at two crucial meetings, where the topic of preserving the planet's ongoing biodiversity for the benefit of humanity is under discussion.… Read more »
Africa: Bringing the World's Food Production in Line With Global Climate Goals
Food systems--how we grow, transport, prepare, and dispose of the food we eat--are responsible for roughly one-third of all global greenhouse gas emissions. And those gases are… Read more »
May 13
South Africa: South Africa Will Be President of G20 in 2025 - Two Much-Needed Reforms It Should Drive
South Africa will play an important international role in 2025 as president of the G20. The G20 is a group of 19 countries as well as the African Union and the European Union.… Read more »
May 09
Kenya: Dissenting Voices At Nairobi Soil Health Forum Over Increased Fertilizer Use
As the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit convened in Nairobi to review the progress made in terms of increasing fertilizer use in line with the 2006 Abuja Declaration,… Read more »