July 08
Namibia: LGBTQI+ Rights Victory Amid Regression
In June, the Namibian High Court struck down two sections of the country's Sexual Offences Act that criminalised consensual sexual relations between men, finding them… Read more »
July 05
Kenya: Kenya's Cash-Strapped, Ambitious Climate Change Goals
Kenya's need for climate finance is great--the country has been battered by climate change-related disasters for years--but as this analysis shows, the arrangements remain opaque,… Read more »
July 04
Africa: Investing in Teachers, School Leaders Key in Keeping Girls in School UN-African Union Study Finds
Investing in teachers and school leaders in Africa is the most important factor in promoting educational opportunities for girls, keeping them in school and ending child marriage,… Read more »
June 27
Africa: A Tax On the Super-Rich to Fight Hunger Gains Ground
A global agreement could levy a small tax on the world's 3,000 richest people, with fortunes in excess of US$ 1 billion, and use the money to fight world hunger, a study by the… Read more »
Kenya: Youth-Led Protests Force Kenyan President's Hand Over Tax Bill
In a historic first, Kenya's youth have mobilized in large-scale protests to demand that the political establishment listen to them. The Finance Bill 2024, which proposed new taxes… Read more »
June 21
Malawi: The World Bank Must Double Its Fund for the Poorest Nations Like Mine to Tackle Hunger Crisis
After El Niño-induced floods and devastating drought, roughly two in five people in Malawi - a country of some 20 million people - are now facing the looming prospect of… Read more »
June 20
West Africa: Free Speech Under Siege - Across West Africa
Authoritarian overreach is re-defining itself across West Africa, fuelled by armed conflicts, military coups, and electoral manipulation and violence, as the region experiences a… Read more »
Africa: Peoples' Climate Vote Shows Global Support for Stronger Climate Action
The global public opinion research on climate change reveals that 80 percent, or four out of five, of people globally want their governments to take stronger action to tackle the… Read more »
Africa: Unveiling the 'Dark Matter' of Food, Diets and Biodiversity
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Africa: Govt Debt Is Symptom, Not Cause
Developing country governments are being blamed for irresponsibly borrowing too much. The resulting debt stress has blocked investments and growth in this unequal and unfair world… Read more »
June 19
Nigeria: Climate Change, Ethnicity and Neglect Fuel Violence in Nigeria's Kaduna State
Lami Kwasu, a farmer in the village of Kafanchan in Kaduna State, north-central Nigeria, was at home one evening in October 2020 when the sound of sporadic gunshots filled the air. Read more »
June 18
Africa: Transforming African Food Systems From the Ground Up
All news is local, they say. The same is true of innovations--those many new technologies, policies, and practices that steadily stream from research to enhance our lives. Read more »
Africa: Sustainable Development of 39 Small Island Developing States - No Time to Wait
Today Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and the environmental threats they confront require our urgent attention --and the global spotlight needs to be trained deliberately and… Read more »
June 17
Africa: Restoring Trust - Confronting Corruption and Championing Integrity
58 percent of respondents to a worldwide survey believed that their political system has been captured by an elite that is corrupt, obsolete, and unreformable. Corruption thrives… Read more »
Africa: Land Grabs Squeeze Rural Poor Worldwide
Since 2008, farmland acquisitions have doubled prices worldwide, squeezing family farmers and other poor rural communities. Such land grabs are worsening inequality, poverty, and… Read more »
Africa: UN's Development Goals - Rich Nations Lead While World's Poor Lag Far Behind
When the 193-member UN General Assembly adopted a landmark resolution, back in September 2015, the goals were highly ambitious: to eradicate extreme poverty and hunger, eliminate… Read more »
June 13
Africa: African Activists Call On the West to Finance Climate Action
As the technical session of the global climate negotiations enters the final stretch in Bonn, Germany, climate activists from Africa have expressed fears that negotiators from the… Read more »
June 12
Africa: Power of Acknowledging White Privilege in Addressing Racism Within United Nations
As we commemorate the 103rd anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre this month, organizations and communities should focus on white privilege as it is a critical but often… Read more »
June 11
Africa: Turning the Tide - Health Community Turns to UNFCC for Inclusivity
There is a rapid realization that climate change is impacting health, which is why the recently adopted World Health Organization's Climate Change and Health Resolution is… Read more »
June 04
Southern Africa: Bringing Drought and Floods, El Niño Hits the Most Fragile in Southern Africa
Kaponde Likando does not know how his family will survive until the next farming season. "We are not going to have anything (to harvest)," said the 60-year-old from Chingobe… Read more »
June 03
Kenya: Biodiversity Meetings in Nairobi End, All Eyes Are Now On COP16
Regions struggling to revise and update their National Biodiversity Plans aligning them with the Global Biodiversity Framework adopted at COP15, will now be given the technical and… Read more »
May 31
Zimbabwe: Maggot Farming Creates Entrepreneurs, Saves Farming Costs in Zimbabwe
Three years ago, 43-year-old Benard Munondo was an "ordinary" Zimbabwean teacher at a local primary school, but now he has turned maggots into gold. Read more »
Chad: Dictatorship Continues By Other Means
On 6 May, people went to the polls in Chad, ostensibly to elect a president who'd usher in democratic civilian rule. Ten days later, the Constitutional Council confirmed there'd be… Read more »
May 30
Africa: South Suffering Due to Powerful Nations' Policies
The World Bank expects the international economic slowdown to be at its worst in over four decades in 2024. This is mainly due to powerful Western nations' contractionary… Read more »
Seychelles: Plastic Soup, Plastic Islands - How Small Island Developing States Can End Plastic Pollution
Scattered over the vast area of our oceans, Small Island Developing States (SIDS) are often pictured as blue, serene and beautiful paradises. However, we are risk losing the beauty… Read more »