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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

Africa: International Women's Day, 2023 - Gender-Responsive Approach to Technology and Innovation Will Ensure Progress

Promoting gender equality in technology and digital spaces is at the core of the UN's observance of International Women's Day (IWD) as UN senior officials call on the world to take… Read more »

Africa: Breaking Barriers - Why Free And Public Education Should Be Every Woman's Right

The writer is Global Campaigns Strategist for Gender Rights and Justice at Oxfam International. Read more »

Africa: Vanuatu Twin Cyclones Underscore the Pacific's Vulnerability to Compounding Climate-Disaster Risks

Two destructive Category 4 tropical cyclones, Judy and Kevin, and an earthquake of 6.5 magnitude impacted over 80 per cent of the Vanuatu population from 1 to 3 March 2023. To… Read more »

Africa: Breaking the Link Between 'Polycrisis' and Poverty

This year marks the halfway point-- eight years in and eight years out-- of the UN Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty and reduce inequalities. Read more »

Africa: The Caribbean's Role in the Transformation of Agri-Food Systems

The global food security crisis reveals an increase in the undernourishment prevalence, reaching higher than in 2015, when countries first agreed to eradicate hunger by 2030 as one… Read more »

Africa: International Women's Day, 2023 - Empowere Her

The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women's Day, March 8. Read more »

Africa: Women and Girls: Innovation and Higher Education #IWD2-23

The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women's Day, March 8. Read more »