August 09, 2022
Africa: April Fool's Inflation Medicine Threatens Progress
The world economy is on the brink of outright recession, according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The Ukraine war and sanctions have scuttled recovery from the COVID-19… Read more »
August 08, 2022
Africa: Indigenous Women At the Forefront of Transformational Change
The writer is Manager, UNDP's Global Programme on Nature for Development Read more »
Africa: Of the Far West, The 'Good Cowboys'... And the 'Bad Indians'
Nothing -or too little- has changed since Hollywood started producing its spectacular western movies. Rough men, ranchers, mercenary killers, saloons, cowboys, guns, gold fever,… Read more »
Kenya: Bringing Specialist Telemedicine to Children of Rural Kenya
New telemedicine technology, Daktari Smart, aims to mitigate the gap between child patients and medical specialists in rural Kenya. Read more »
August 05, 2022
Nigeria: Women Play a Key Role in Food & Nutrition Security in Nigeria
In Nigeria, women play key roles in food and nutrition security through their contributions to agricultural production, their influence on how to allocate household income, and… Read more »
Burundi: Researchers Embrace Artificial Intelligence to Tackle Banana Disease in Burundi
A group of scientists involved in finding solutions to minimize the impact of a devastating banana virus in Burundi have developed an Artificial Intelligence (AI) tool for… Read more »
August 04, 2022
Zimbabwe: Nonagenarian Opposition Backer Contends for Change in Zimbabwe
Idah Hanyani, popularly known as Gogo Chihera, has backed the opposition since Zimbabwe gained independence in 1980. Read more »
Africa: UN Chief Urges Governments to Tax "Immoral" & Excessive" Oil and Gas Profits
Antonio Guterres, Secretary-General of the United Nations, in his address to the UN press corps while launching the third brief by the Global Crisis Response Group on Energy. Read more »
August 03, 2022
Africa: The Politics of the Hangman's Noose - Judge, Jury & Executioner
A spike in state-sanctioned executions worldwide - including in Iran, Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and more recently Myanmar - has triggered strong condemnations from the United… Read more »
Africa: Technology Helps Traffickers Hunt Their Victims, Enslave Them, Sell Their Organs
Human beings have proved to be capable of producing innumerable practical inventions while much too often making the worst use of them. Take the case, per example, of how criminal… Read more »
August 02, 2022
Uganda: Slow Food, Accelerating Biodiversity in the Field and On Our Plates
Edward Mukiibi was forced to do agriculture at school as punishment for misbehaviour. Read more »
Africa: Neo-Colonial Currency Enables French Exploitation
Colonial-style currency board arrangements have enabled continuing imperialist exploitation decades after the end of formal colonial rule. Such neo-colonial monetary systems… Read more »
August 01, 2022
Malawi: Climate Change Is Putting Women & Girls At Greater Risk of Sexual Violence #AfricaClimateCrisis
It is often those least responsible for causing climate change that suffer the most from the impacts. And such is the case with women and girls in Malawi - one of the world's… Read more »
July 29, 2022
Zimbabwe: Unsung Living HIV/Aids Hero Spreads Message of Hope
In 2001, when Reki Jimu was 30 years old, his wife died aged 27. Read more »
July 28, 2022
Nigeria: Surviving the Food Crisis in North-East Nigeria
Today in north-east Nigeria, millions of people are facing the painful consequences of a deteriorating food security and nutrition crisis. Food insecurity means not knowing when or… Read more »
Africa: The World Was Already Broken. Shall Ukrainian Cereals Fix It Up?
A wide majority, including the United States, has cheered the 22 July Turkey-brooked agreement between Russia and Ukraine to resumen cereals and fertilisers exports from both… Read more »
July 26, 2022
Congo-Kinshasa: Both UK & Congo Think They're Climate Leaders - COP26's Fallout Shows How Far Adrift They Are
The writer is the International Project Leader for the Congo Basin Forest, Greenpeace Africa Read more »
Africa: Africa Taken for 'Neo-Colonial' Ride
Like so many others, Africans have long been misled. Alleged progress under imperialism has long been used to legitimize exploitation. Meanwhile, Western colonial powers have been… Read more »
July 25, 2022
Kenya: Unleashing Mangrove Superpower Through Soft Coastal Engineering
The swish of calm waters followed by unexpectedly high tides and violent waves is now too familiar for the fisher community along Kenya's 1,420-kilometer Indian Ocean coastline. Read more »
West Africa: An Integrated Regional Response for the Sahel Crisis
Benoit Thierry, is Sahel Office Director of International Fund for Agriculture Development, Dakar Read more »
Africa: We're On the Cusp of the Most Catastrophic Food Crisis in 50 Years - Where Is the Global Response?
A growing mountain of data and analysis points to an unprecedented global crisis in the making, due to the convergence of "Four Cs" (Conflict, Covid, Climate and Costs). Read more »
July 22, 2022
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe Turns to Boreholes Amid Groundwater Level Concerns #AfricaClimateCrisis
Faced with cyclical droughts and low water levels in supply dams, Zimbabwe is turning to boreholes for relief, raising concerns about already precarious groundwater levels across… Read more »
July 21, 2022
Africa: 'The Africa We Want Is Still Within Reach'
Amina J. Mohammed, Deputy Secretary-General of the United nations, in an address to the Joint High Level Dialogue on Africa, 20 July 2022. Read more »
East Africa: East African Countries Seek Cross-Border Cooperation to Combat Wildlife Trafficking
For many years, East African countries were considered wildlife trafficking hotspots. Now conservation organisations have started to mobilise all stakeholders to combat the illegal… Read more »
March 28, 2016
Malawi: Saving Children's Lives Through Drones
The first successful test-flight of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) or drone was an unhindered 10 km journey from a community health centre to the Kamuzu central hospital… Read more »