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 »

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 »

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 »

Africa: UN Assessed Contributions Needed to Generate Core Funding for Climate Loss & Damage

For decades, there have been non-conclusive deliberations regarding how the international community could support poor and vulnerable countries in their efforts to cope with and… Read more »

Africa: Digital Human Rights Need to Be Enshrined in Law

The 17th Internet Governance Forum (IGF), to be hosted by the Government of Ethiopia with the support of UN ECA and UN DESA, will take place from 28 November to 2 December 2022 in… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Cattle Turn Into New Currency Amid Inflation in Zimbabwe

In 2007 as inflation walloped the Zimbabwean currency, rendering it valueless, then 54-year-old Langton Musaigwa of Mataruse village west of Zimbabwe in Mberengwa district switched… Read more »

Africa: Push Forward - Act Now to End Violence Against Women and Girls

Five years ago, the global #MeToo movement brought new urgency and visibility to the extent of violence against women and girls. Millions of survivors came forward to share their… Read more »

Africa: Countries Hiding Responses Sent to UN Experts Over Allegations of Human Rights Abuses

Human rights defenders are alarmed at what appears to be a new process permitting countries to keep confidential their responses to UN experts about allegations of human rights… Read more »

Africa: Black 'Fraud-Days' and the Shocking Cost of Staying Fashionable

Please take a quick look at this short report before rushing to shop on a Black Friday, Christmas sales and all those long chains of big discounts and wholesales, most of them are… Read more »

Africa: Was COP27 a Success or a Failure?

COP 27 was both better and worse than expected, say Prof. Felix Dodds and Chris Spence Read more »

Uganda: Women Tackle Domestic Violence With Green Solutions

Constance Okollet Achom, a Ugandan woman from Tororo, a rural village located in Eastern Uganda, has helped several dozens of her peers affected by domestic violence to address the… Read more »

Africa: Pan-African Approach Needed to Tackle Food Insecurity Arising From Conflict and Climate Shocks

Upheaval on the global stage, the war in Ukraine, conflict in the Horn of Africa, severe climatic shocks, high international inflation, increasing global commodity prices, high… Read more »

Africa: Landmark Win On Loss and Damage Fund at COP27 #AfricaClimateHope

COP 27 delivered on what was the 'litmus test' for its success - consensus on the establishment of a fund on loss and damage. What seemed impossible was made possible, largely due… Read more »

Africa: Open Veins of Africa Bleeding Heavily

The ongoing plunder of Africa's natural resources drained by capital flight is holding it back yet again. More African nations face protracted recessions amid mounting debt… Read more »

Africa: A Looming Debt Crisis Is Threatening Global Health Security. It Is Time to Drop the Debt

In this moment of profound challenge in international relations, it was understandable that the conclusion of the G20 meeting left leaders feeling relieved that the meeting took… Read more »

Africa: U.S. to Fight Sexual Abuse in International Organizations

The United States, which recently laid down a set of guidelines to monitor sexual exploitation and abuse (SEA) by US citizens in international organizations, including the United… Read more »

Africa: Crimes Against Children

An indisputable truth is that no child has ever chosen where to be born, which colour of skin to have, which ethnic community to belong to, what religion to practice and language… Read more »

Africa: Loss and Damage Fund Saves COP27 From the Abyss #AfricaClimateHope

They were on the brink of shipwreck and did not leave happy, but did feel satisfied that they got the best they could. The countries of the global South achieved something decisive… Read more »

Africa: COP27 - Historic Loss and Damage Fund Takes COP27 to the Edge #AfricaClimateHope

After a tense impasse and many hours of negotiations, almost 200 countries struck a deal to set up a loss and damage fund to assist nations worst hit by climate change - a demand… Read more »

Africa: COP27 - Africa's Agri-Food Systems Losses Ignored in Global Climate Negotiations

At a time when sustainable farming approaches such as agroecology have been removed from the text at ongoing global climate negotiation (COP27) taking place in Sharm El Sheikh,… Read more »

Africa: COP27 - Climate Change Exacerbates Vicious Loop of Human Rights Inequity

Climate change is worsening injustice globally, and the poor and vulnerable communities are the most affected. It is time the world acted on fulfilling human rights and building a… Read more »

Africa: Launch of EBRD Climate Adaptation Action Plan At COP27

As it moves to increase its climate adaptation finance, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) has launched the EBRD Climate Adaptation Action Plan (CAAP) at… Read more »

Africa: COP27 - Show Me the Money - Supported By Policy

Climate change is an existential threat to humans and our ability to thrive on a healthy planet. But when it comes to rising temperatures, the inability of humankind to slow… Read more »