December 14, 2022
Africa: COP27 Fails Women and Girls - High Time to Redefine Multilateralism - Part 3
The writer is former Under-Secretary-General and High Representative of the United Nations, former Ambassador of Bangladesh to the UN and former President of the Security Council. Read more »
December 13, 2022
Africa: Needed Global Financial Reforms Foregone Yet Again
Calls for more government regulation and intervention are common during crises. But once the crises subside, pressures to reform quickly evaporate and the government is told to… Read more »
Africa: The Humanitarian Rescue Fleet Faces Hurricane Meloni
It was a hellish journey aboard a crammed boat amid three-meter waves. It had started on a Libyan beach, and at the gates of winter. On December 11, the last 500 migrants rescued… Read more »
Africa: Experts Seek Appropriate Circular Solutions to Plastic Pollution
Experts agree that African economies need to develop innovative approaches to deal with plastic production, which is set to double in 20 years - adversely impacting rural… Read more »
December 12, 2022
Africa: The Digital Divide - Africa the Least Connected With 60% of the Population Offline
The digital divide - between the world's rich and poor nations --remains staggeringly wide. Read more »
Africa: European Court of Justice Ruling is Major Blow to Fight Against Illegal Fishing
The author is Executive Director, Financial Transparency Coalition Read more »
Africa: COP27 Fails Women & Girls - High Time to Redefine Multilateralism
Three weeks have gone by since the much-ballyhooed mega-gathering of the 27th Conference of Parties (COP) to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), generally known… Read more »
December 08, 2022
Ethiopia: Climate Change, Conflict Pushing Millions of Children Out of School
A silent catastrophe is unfolding in Ethiopia on the backdrop of years of inter-communal conflict and the most prolonged and severe drought in recent years. High inflation and food… Read more »
Africa: Europe and the Refugee Crisis - It's All About Tackling Racism & Discrimination
In 2019, when the President-elect of the European Union (EU) Ursula von der Leyen had presented a list for her soon-to-be European Commission, and on that list was a portfolio… Read more »
Africa: We Indigenous Peoples Are Rights-Holders, Not Stakeholders
After four failed rainy seasons, the land of the Maasai has withered. The worst drought in 40 years is a slow-motion storm of devastation in the Greater Horn of Africa, ruining the… Read more »
December 07, 2022
Africa: COP15 - We Are Losing Nature - Biodiversity - At the Fastest Rate in Human History
While climate change dominates the environmental headlines, quieter, startling changes are taking place in nature across the planet - whether in forests, oceans, deserts, rural… Read more »
Africa: COP15 - Shift in Societal Values Needed to Address Biodiversity Loss #AfricaClimateCrisis
Policymakers were encouraged to look at the economic and social aspects with the environmental elements of biodiversity losses to meet the Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF)… Read more »
Africa: To Achieve Human Rights, Start With Food
Maximo Torero Cullen is the Chief Economist of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Read more »
Africa: Toward Free Education for All Children - Momentum Building to Expand the Right to Millions
Bede Sheppard is deputy children's rights director at Human Rights Watch Read more »
Africa: COP15 - Biodiversity Conservation in the Face of Growing Economies
Dating back to the 16th Century, the face of biodiversity conservation has taken several tolls and twists- evolving from an era of preservation to conservation- down to… Read more »
December 06, 2022
Africa: Rich Nations Doubly Responsible for Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Natural flows do not respect national boundaries. The atmosphere and oceans cross international borders with little difficulty, as greenhouse gases (GHGs) and other fluids,… Read more »
December 02, 2022
Africa: Global Risks in 2022 - The Year of Colliding Consequences
As 2022 draws to a close, we are confronted with an unprecedented collision of global risks, interacting and reinforcing each other in dangerous new ways. Read more »
December 01, 2022
Egypt: Egypt Races to Supply Wind, Solar Energy to Europe Via Submarine Cables
As Europe braces for an unusual winter due to a global energy crisis, Greece is embarking on one of Europe's most ambitious energy projects by connecting its electricity grid to… Read more »
Africa: COP27 Was a Global Cop-Out, Critics Say
Last year's climate COP 26 in Glasgow, Scotland, was billed as the most important conference in the history of humanity. But it failed to deliver. If anything, that failure added… Read more »
Africa: This Planet Is Drying Up. And These Are the Consequences
Drought is one of the 'most destructive' natural disasters in terms of the loss of life, arising from impacts, such as wide-scale crop failure, wildfires and water stress. Read more »
Africa: Illegal Immigration - a Mounting Global Crisis
Illegal immigration has evolved into a mounting crisis for a growing number of countries worldwide and governments appear to be at a loss on how to deal with the crisis. Read more »
November 30, 2022
Africa: Three Ways to End Gender-Based Violence
How are the multiple shocks and crises the world is facing changing how we respond to gender-based violence? Almost three years after the COVID-19 pandemic triggered high levels of… Read more »
East Africa: Legal Recognition of East African Sign Languages Key Towards Inclusion
Since the onset of the Covid19 pandemic, at least two deaf people were shot and killed in Uganda by state law enforcement officers. Their 'crime' was being deaf and uneducated.… Read more »
Africa: Processing Industry Holds Promise for Broader Economic Growth
As a central pillar of African diets for thousands of years, millet has a prized position as one of the continent's most important crops. Read more »
November 29, 2022
Africa: Green Revolution in Africa Gets Make-Up, Not Make-Over
Despite its dismal record, the Gates Foundation-sponsored Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa (AGRA) announced a new five-year strategy in September after rebranding itself… Read more »