Africa: Belém's Hunger, Poverty Declaration Places World's Most Vulnerable Populations At Centre of Global Climate Policy

If we do not have our land and healthy territory, we do not have healthy food, and without food we do not survive. Food must become a centerpiece in the global climate discourse,… Read more »

Africa: Poor Countries Welcome Loss and Damage Fund's Call for Requests, Warn It Falls Short of Needs

Our countries did not light this fire--but we are burning in its heat. And the smoke does not stop at our borders. --Evans Njewa, Least Developed Countries Group chair, when… Read more »

Tanzania: Tanzania's Post-Election Turmoil Deepens Economic and Social Woes

At dawn in Manzese, a dusty township on the outskirts of Dar es Salaam, silence hangs where the sounds of commerce once roared. The township, usually crowded with street cooks,… Read more »

Africa: Lawmakers Urged to Consider Emerging Drivers of Child Marriage

Closing the chapter on child marriages is still a distant ambition in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region, and despite great strides at developing and passing… Read more »

Africa: Will COP30 Reenergize Nigeria's Great Green Wall Project?

Best intentions to create a green wall to capture millions of tons of carbon while tackling desertification are up against a lack of funding and banditry in Jigawa State,… Read more »

Sudan: UN Agencies Calls for Urgent Action As Sudan's Humanitarian Crisis Reaches Breaking Point

In recent weeks, Sudan's humanitarian crisis has deteriorated considerably, as escalating hostilities, mass displacement, disease outbreaks, and a widespread lack of access to… Read more »

Tanzania: Tanzania's Pandemic Fund Ushers in a New Era of Health Preparedness

When COVID-19 hit Tanzania in 2020, Alfred Kisena's life was torn apart. The 51-year-old teacher still remembers the night he learned that his wife, Maria, had succumbed to the… Read more »

Africa: The Only Remaining Colony in Africa Continues Its Struggle for Independence

The African continent has long been monopolized by European colonial rulers, with France having the largest number of colonies, ruling over 35 territories followed by Britain with… Read more »

Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Secondhand Clothes From the West Are Collapsing the Local Textile Industry

Shamiso Marambanyika assists a male customer in selecting a pair of jeans on a Saturday morning in Mutare, a city in the eastern part of Zimbabwe. Read more »

Africa: Global Forest Loss - Far Off Track From Global Commitments

Closing legal loopholes that allow deforestation-linked products to enter markets and getting international lenders to align funding with environmental goals are key to ending… Read more »

South Africa: Xdr-TB Drug Trial Participants Continue to Celebrate Its Success

Before the successful Nix-TB trial, which took place in South Africa from 2015 to 2017, patients with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) had to follow a complicated treatment… Read more »

Burundi: From Burundi to Washington - Recognizing the Warning Signs

Carine Kaneza Nantulya is deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch Read more »

Africa: Global South Can Rebalance Climate Agenda in Belém, Says Gambian Negotiator

COP30 negotiator Malang Sambou Manneh believes the method of countering growth in fossil fuel development lies in technology. Showcasing alternatives that work provides the… Read more »

Africa: Science-Informed Policy Action Key to Biodiversity Conservation

Global biodiversity is disappearing at breakneck speed and, in the process, threatening the future of humanity. The loss is not a future threat but a present crisis that Dr.… Read more »

Africa: UNGA80 - Climate and Health in the Mix of Hope and Despair

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN's body on climate science, has over the years, repeatedly and steadily reported on the science of global warming… Read more »

Africa: No African Development From Western Trade Policies

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Oct 7 2025 (IPS) - The World Bank's 1981 Berg Report provided the blueprint for structural adjustment, including economic liberalisation in Africa.… Read more »

Mali: Mali's Blocked Transition - Five Years of Deepening Authoritarianism

When Mali's former Prime Minister Moussa Mara stood trial in Bamako's cybercrime court on 29 September, charged with undermining state authority for expressing solidarity with… Read more »

Nigeria: The Ranch Fighting to Save Nigeria's Endangered Drill Monkeys

For the past 23 years, Gabriel Oshie has started his mornings at Drill Ranch in the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary, Boki, Cross River state, southern Nigeria. Read more »

Tanzania: Drought-Hit Tanzania's Villages Confront Harshest Reality of Climate Change

Farmers in Tanzania's drought-hit Dodoma region offer a potent message for negotiators heading to COP30 in Brazil: climate justice is not an abstract slogan. It is a water trough… Read more »

Africa: African Voices At UNGA80 - Building Sustainable and Self-Reliant Systems Through Innovation

On September 24, African-led organizations convened a high-level side event during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80) The event - African-led… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Ending Child Marriage Needs a Culture of Accountability, Respect for the Rule of Law

On the sidelines of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80) under the theme 'Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights,'… Read more »

Africa: Food Insecurity Rising in Africa, Falling in Latin America and Caribbean

The 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report shows a modest global decline in hunger since 2022, with 673 million people facing hunger in 2024,… Read more »

Uganda: The Struggle to Be Heard On Sign Language Rights in Uganda

Every Last week of September the Deaf community in Uganda and the rest of the world celebrates sign languages and the rich identity of Deaf people and Deaf culture. The day is also… Read more »

Africa: African Leaders Commit to Climate-Health Nexus and Adaptation Solutions

At the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 8-10 September, African leaders committed to the climate and health nexus and their desire to advance… Read more »

Tanzania: Toxic Air in Tanzania's Port City Threatens Millions, Researchers Warn

On a hot afternoon in Kariakoo, Dar es Salaam's bustling commercial hub, the air is a swirling mix of diesel exhaust, charcoal smoke and dust kicked up by the shuffle of feet.… Read more »