Africa: Digital Treatment of Genetic Resources Shakes Up COP15

In addition to its nutritional properties, quinoa, an ancestral grain from the Andes, also has cosmetic uses, as stated by the resource use and benefit-sharing permit… Read more »

Africa: Four Ways to Overcome Corruption in the Race Against Climate Crisis

The writer is Deputy Director, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support, UNDP Read more »

Africa: COP15 - Impacts of Mega Infrastructure Projects On Biodiversity Stay Off-Radar

As the COP entered its crucial second week, negotiations are intensifying now. A slew of new contact groups - meeting mostly behind closed doors - are discussing the minutest… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: Borderlands and Bloodbaths - the Case of Congo and Ukraine

During November, soldiers of the March 23 Movement (M23) have been approaching Goma in the eastern territory of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), close to the Rwandan… Read more »

Africa: Europe's Dash for Gas Presents Pitfalls for Africa

One of the knock-on effects of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine is that European countries have embarked on a 'dash for gas' to find alternatives to Russian energy supplies. Read more »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »

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 »