November 01, 2022
Congo-Kinshasa: Education Cannot Wait Director Calls On Donors to Expand Support for Successful Programme Bringing Girls and Boys Back to Learning in Post-Conflict Areas
The Director of Education Cannot Wait (ECW), Yasmine Sherif, launched a strong call for public and private donors to step up funding, asking them to "show the same courage" she saw… Read more »
Africa: Developing Countries Need Monetary Financing
Developing countries have long been told to avoid borrowing from central banks (CBs) to finance government spending. Many have even legislated against CB financing of fiscal… Read more »
Africa: COP27 Climate Summit Is an Opportunity to Promote Peace
Peace is precious. The past few months have offered daily reminders of this simple fact. War in Ukraine. Russian and North Korean nuclear threats. Growing tensions over Taiwan.… Read more »
October 31, 2022
Africa: Farm-Kids-Turned-Scientists Give Back On the Climate-Crisis Front Line
Dr Alice Karanja knows from personal experience the tough choices the climate crisis is putting people before in the Global South. Choices such as whether to have a healthy diet or… Read more »
Africa: A Tale of Cities
For decades, urban practitioners have failed to consider the needs of women in city decision-making and planning. Imagine being a young girl in a bustling metropolis. Read more »
October 29, 2022
Zimbabwe: Artisanal Miners Ruin Diminishing Forests
With homemade tents scattered about, hordes of artisanal gold miners throng parts of Mazowe village in Zimbabwe's Mashonaland Central Province, where they have cut down thousands… Read more »
October 27, 2022
Africa: Climate Change Cannot Be Ignored - COP27 Envoy On Youth
COP 27's official Youth Envoy, Dr Omnia El Omrani, realised the impact of climate change in 2017, and Hurricane Irma slammed Miami. Read more »
October 25, 2022
Africa: Climate Change Brings New Pest & Disease Pressures Previously Unimaginable #AfricaClimateCrisis
In temperate zones lie most of the world's richest countries, which have also been up till now the world's major breadbaskets, in meeting international grain, oilseed and livestock… Read more »
Kenya: Broken Relationship With Nature Exposed As Global Wildlife Population Plummets
Home to a variety of iconic and rare animal and plant species, freshwater lakes, rivers, waterfalls, and the expansive Indian Ocean coastline, Kenya's place as a biodiversity… Read more »
Africa: Macroeconomic Policy Coordination More One-Sided, Ineffective
Widespread adverse reactions to the UK government's recent 'mini-budget' forced new Prime Minister Liz Truss to resign. The episode highlighted problems of macroeconomic policy… Read more »
October 21, 2022
Rwanda: Tracking Social Media to Uncover Ivory Trafficking in Rwanda
Every morning, Valerie Mukamazimpaka, a businesswoman selling various food products from Rubavu, a district in Northwestern Rwanda, wakes up early morning to cross "Petite… Read more »
Africa: Public Development Banks Can't Drag Their Feet When It Comes to Building a Sustainable Future
A coalition of civil society organisations is demanding public development banks (PDBs) to take radical and innovative steps to tackle human rights violations and environmental… Read more »
October 20, 2022
Africa: Developing Countries Battle Climate Change, While the Wealthy Make Frozen Pledges #AfricaClimateCrisis
The countdown to the UN Climate Summit COP27, which will take place in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, from November 6 to November 18, has begun. Read more »
Africa: Saving Lives Can't Ever Be Divisive
That's why a new ship with a big white "E" will navigate the Mediterranean Sea. The vessel has a red hull, is more than fifty meters long and has low decks. Soon, it will leave the… Read more »
Africa: Accelerating Post-Pandemic SDG 6 Achievements On Water & Sanitation
Global progress has been staggeringly inadequate against Sustainable Development Goal 6, "clean water and sanitation for all." Read more »
October 19, 2022
Africa: Time Is Running Out for Decisions On Debt Relief As Countries Face Escalating Development Crisis
Developing low- and middle-income economies are taking hard hits from global economic developments outside their control. Monetary tightening in advanced economies coupled with… Read more »
October 18, 2022
Africa: Are Climate Summits A Waste Of Time?
The 27th annual UN climate summit is taking place in November. Will it be worth all the time and effort? Professor Felix Dodds and Chris Spence--who have attended many of… Read more »
Gabon: Environment Minister Reflects On Conservation Successes, Future Challenges
Over the past few years, Gabon has been successful in its forest conservation efforts. The country has also been able to work hard to achieve the goal of limiting the rise in… Read more »
October 17, 2022
Africa: Rural Women Work The Hardest, Produce The Most, Eat The Least
Make no mistake. Violence against women has been perpetuated, specially when it comes to those who have already been deprived of their basic human rights, as it is the case of… Read more »
Zimbabwe: Poverty Haunts Resettled Farmers
Edious Murewa has for years boasted of owning a 10-hectare piece of land, but now the 52-year-old is full of regrets. He faces poverty years after he invaded part of a farm once… Read more »
October 14, 2022
Africa: World Food Day 2022 Call To Action As 828 Million People Go Hungry
World Food Day is celebrated on October 16, 2022, with the theme Leave NO ONE behind. During this week, IPS will publish features that showcase better production, better nutrition,… Read more »
October 13, 2022
Africa: Millions of Girls Abused in the Name of Toxic Masculinity
A common feature to religions - including the monotheistic ones - is that groups of males have self-proclaimed themselves as the source for interpreting the "Word of God," shaping… Read more »
Africa: How Digital Can Drive a Green Recovery
As much of the world was starting to glimpse recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, it now finds itself amid a cost-of-living crisis brought on by disruptions in global energy and… Read more »
October 12, 2022
Africa: Big Business, Not Vulnerable Communities, Benefited From Post-Pandemic Support - Report
Governments and international financial institutions must adopt new ways of providing post-pandemic support, say campaigners after a report found that in many poorer countries, big… Read more »
October 11, 2022
Kenya: University Outreach Project Teaching Tissue Culture to Potato Farmers
World Food Day is celebrated on October 16, 2022, with the theme Leave NO ONE behind. During this week IPS will look at features that showcase better production, better nutrition,… Read more »