July 14, 2025
Africa: The Risks Artificial Intelligence Pose for the Global South
Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly developing and leaving its mark across the globe. Yet the implementation of AI risks widening the gap between the Global North and South. Read more »
Africa: Will the FfD4 Sevilla Commitment Ever Be Followed Up?
The extensive plan of action adopted at the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4), held recently in Sevilla, Spain (30 June - 3 July), triggers the… Read more »
Africa: UN Reform - Is It Time to Renew the Idea of Clustering the Major Environmental Agreements?
"Never let a good crisis go to waste." Winston Churchill's famous maxim feels very relevant today, when multilateralism and many environmental causes seem to be in retreat. We now… Read more »
July 11, 2025
Africa: The Race Towards Clean Energy - a World Still Gripped By Coal
Global investments in energy exceeded USD 3 trillion in 2024, with at least USD 2 trillion being invested in clean energy technology and infrastructure. Infrastructure. Despite… Read more »
Africa: UN Funding Crisis Threatens Work of Human Rights Council
The United Nations Human Rights Council (HRC) has expressed concern at the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights' announcement that certain activities mandated by the council… Read more »
Africa: Bonn Climate Talks - Why World Needs to Go Further, Faster, and Fairer
This 62nd meeting of the Subsidiary Bodies (SB62) from June 16 to 26, 2025 revealed the persistent complexities and political tensions that continue to challenge multilateral… Read more »
July 10, 2025
Africa: HIV/Aids Funding Crisis Risks Reversing Decades of Global Progress
UNAIDS called the funding crisis a ticking time bomb, saying the impact of the US cuts to the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) could result in 4 million… Read more »
July 09, 2025
Africa: WHO Launches Initiative to Tax Tobacco and Beverage Corporations to Boost Public Health
On July 2, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched the "3 by 35" initiative in an effort to boost public health and limit global consumption of harmful substances. By urging… Read more »
Africa: Preventing Pandemics Needs Every Tool in the Toolbox - Including Animal Vaccines
Just five years on from the Covid-19 pandemic, another animal-borne disease is mutating and spreading across borders and species. Read more »
July 08, 2025
Africa: Staff Union Dismisses UN Restructuring As 'Chaotic, Incoherent, Rushed & Lacking Strategy'
A coalition of UN staff unions, led by the 60,000-strong Coordinating Committee of International Staff Unions and Associations (CCISUA), has written to UN member states criticizing… Read more »
July 07, 2025
Kenya: Kenya's Shirika Plan - a New Dawn for Refugee Rights and Integration
When Jean Baremba arrived in Kenya in 2018, he looked forward to rebuilding a life shattered by war in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Read more »
Africa: How Global Fund Is Saving Lives From Malaria, TB, & HIV Across Africa
In Gabú, Guinea-Bissau, a grandmother named N'beta hesitated. Her six-month-old grandson, Seco, was healthy, so why give him medicine? But community health workers Jamilia… Read more »
July 04, 2025
Africa: FFD4 At Sevilla Plants the Seeds of Debtor Unity
UN Member States adopted the 'Compromiso de Sevilla' at the Fourth Financing for Development Forum (FfD4) which concluded July 3- the culmination of months of contentious… Read more »
South Africa: Lessons From South Africa On Monitoring the Impact of Invasive Trees On Water Resources
Concerns about the impacts of invasive species is not new; it dates to the 19th century. The term was popularized in Charles Elton's 1958 book "The Ecology of Invasions by Animals… Read more »
July 03, 2025
Sudan: Sudanese Refugees and IDPs Disproportionately Affected By Crisis
Since the wake of the Sudanese Civil War in 2023, Sudan has faced a dire humanitarian crisis that has been marked by extreme violence, widespread civilian displacement, and an… Read more »
Africa: African Fish Workers Excluded From International Trade Deals - Report
A new report has raised concerns about the exclusion of African fish workers from trade protocols between their governments and developed countries, resulting in impoverished… Read more »
Africa: Does the UN Overstep It's Responsibility to Protect Mandate?
The UN has been criticized by some member states for overstepping the mandate of its Responsibility to Protect (R2P) doctrine during a debate in the General Assembly. Read more »
Africa: UN80 - Alternative Reform Pathways - Fiscal Prudence, Relocation Realities, & Underutilized Charter Mechanisms
Recent proposals to relocate UN operations to lower-cost duty stations ignore demonstrable economic patterns. Empirical evidence suggests that establishing UN hubs often triggers… Read more »
July 02, 2025
Africa: Multi-Year Drought Gives Birth to Extremist Violence, Girls Most Vulnerable
While droughts creep in stealthily, their impacts are often more devastating and far-reaching than any other disaster. Inter-community conflict, extremist violence, and violence… Read more »
South Africa: From Parliaments to the G20 - a Call to Champion Women's Sexual & Reproductive Health & Rights
By Priyanka Chaturvedi, Mokhothu Makhalanyane and Rajat Khosla Read more »
July 01, 2025
Africa: The Juggling of Aid - How WFP Is Delivering More With Less
Serious-to-severe food insecurity has been widely felt among those living through the worst, protracted humanitarian crises. For organizations like the World Food Programme (WFP),… Read more »
Africa: Women and War - Victims of Violence and Voices of Peace
In 2023, approximately 612 million women and girls lived within 50 kilometers of a conflict zone, more than 50 percent higher than a decade ago. During war, they disproportionately… Read more »
June 30, 2025
Africa: Global Tobacco Control Efforts Protect Up to 6.1 Billion People
Tobacco kills up to half its users who don't quit, a grim reality that highlights the urgent mission of global tobacco control. A new report from the World Health Organization… Read more »
Nigeria: The Young Nigerian Innovator Lighting Up Communities With Recycled Solar Innovation
When Stanley Anigbogu heard his name announced as the 2025 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year in London earlier in March, he could hardly believe it. He had not expected to win,… Read more »
Africa: When Life-Saving Treatment Disappears - the Coming Crisis in Child Malnutrition
On July 1st, USAID officially shuts down and transfers operations to the U.S. State Department. Amid growing uncertainty about the future of U.S. foreign assistance structures and… Read more »
