Zimbabwe: In Zimbabwe, Secondhand Clothes From the West Are Collapsing the Local Textile Industry

Shamiso Marambanyika assists a male customer in selecting a pair of jeans on a Saturday morning in Mutare, a city in the eastern part of Zimbabwe. Read more »

Africa: Global Forest Loss - Far Off Track From Global Commitments

Closing legal loopholes that allow deforestation-linked products to enter markets and getting international lenders to align funding with environmental goals are key to ending… Read more »

South Africa: Xdr-TB Drug Trial Participants Continue to Celebrate Its Success

Before the successful Nix-TB trial, which took place in South Africa from 2015 to 2017, patients with extensively drug-resistant TB (XDR-TB) had to follow a complicated treatment… Read more »

Burundi: From Burundi to Washington - Recognizing the Warning Signs

Carine Kaneza Nantulya is deputy Africa director at Human Rights Watch Read more »

Africa: Global South Can Rebalance Climate Agenda in Belém, Says Gambian Negotiator

COP30 negotiator Malang Sambou Manneh believes the method of countering growth in fossil fuel development lies in technology. Showcasing alternatives that work provides the… Read more »

Africa: Science-Informed Policy Action Key to Biodiversity Conservation

Global biodiversity is disappearing at breakneck speed and, in the process, threatening the future of humanity. The loss is not a future threat but a present crisis that Dr.… Read more »

Africa: UNGA80 - Climate and Health in the Mix of Hope and Despair

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the UN's body on climate science, has over the years, repeatedly and steadily reported on the science of global warming… Read more »

Africa: No African Development From Western Trade Policies

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, Oct 7 2025 (IPS) - The World Bank's 1981 Berg Report provided the blueprint for structural adjustment, including economic liberalisation in Africa.… Read more »

Mali: Mali's Blocked Transition - Five Years of Deepening Authoritarianism

When Mali's former Prime Minister Moussa Mara stood trial in Bamako's cybercrime court on 29 September, charged with undermining state authority for expressing solidarity with… Read more »

Nigeria: The Ranch Fighting to Save Nigeria's Endangered Drill Monkeys

For the past 23 years, Gabriel Oshie has started his mornings at Drill Ranch in the Afi Mountain Wildlife Sanctuary, Boki, Cross River state, southern Nigeria. Read more »

Tanzania: Drought-Hit Tanzania's Villages Confront Harshest Reality of Climate Change

Farmers in Tanzania's drought-hit Dodoma region offer a potent message for negotiators heading to COP30 in Brazil: climate justice is not an abstract slogan. It is a water trough… Read more »

Africa: African Voices At UNGA80 - Building Sustainable and Self-Reliant Systems Through Innovation

On September 24, African-led organizations convened a high-level side event during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80) The event - African-led… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Ending Child Marriage Needs a Culture of Accountability, Respect for the Rule of Law

On the sidelines of the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA80) under the theme 'Better together: 80 years and more for peace, development and human rights,'… Read more »

Africa: Food Insecurity Rising in Africa, Falling in Latin America and Caribbean

The 2025 State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World (SOFI) report shows a modest global decline in hunger since 2022, with 673 million people facing hunger in 2024,… Read more »

Uganda: The Struggle to Be Heard On Sign Language Rights in Uganda

Every Last week of September the Deaf community in Uganda and the rest of the world celebrates sign languages and the rich identity of Deaf people and Deaf culture. The day is also… Read more »

Africa: African Leaders Commit to Climate-Health Nexus and Adaptation Solutions

At the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, from 8-10 September, African leaders committed to the climate and health nexus and their desire to advance… Read more »

Tanzania: Toxic Air in Tanzania's Port City Threatens Millions, Researchers Warn

On a hot afternoon in Kariakoo, Dar es Salaam's bustling commercial hub, the air is a swirling mix of diesel exhaust, charcoal smoke and dust kicked up by the shuffle of feet.… Read more »

Seychelles: Saving the Ocean - Act Now!

James Alix Michel, Former President of the Republic of Seychelles, argues that the key to saving the ocean may be found in a bottom-up approach--sustainable practices, growing… Read more »

Sierra Leone: How Stigma Undermines Contraceptive Use Among Women in Sierra Leone

Eunice Dumbuya, a young activist in Freetown, Sierra Leone, still remembers being called promiscuous after getting a contraceptive implant a few years ago. She knew the risks of an… Read more »

Africa: Frontline of a Planetary Emergency - Africa Demands Climate Justice and Action

The room at the Swiss Inn Nexus Hotel in Bole was silent but tense as Sunita Narain, one of the world's most influential environmental voices, fixed her gaze on rows of African… Read more »

Africa: World Leaders Should Commit to Human Rights, International Justice

World leaders gathering at the United Nations General Assembly from September 22-30, 2025, should commit to protecting the UN from powerful governments seeking to defund and… Read more »

Africa: AfDB Commits 11 Billion Dollars to Support Early Warning Systems, Food Security in Rural Africa

As increasingly frequent droughts and devastating floods are affecting agricultural productivity, leaving millions of people food insecure in Africa amid a lack of climate finance,… Read more »

Africa: Inside Africa's Big Bet On Youth to Feed the Continent and Who's Actually Getting Funded

Winnie Wambui leans forward on the panel stage, microphone in hand, scanning the room until she spots a raised hand. Read more »

Africa: South-South Cooperation - Innovation and Solidarity for a Better Tomorrow

NEW YORK, Sep 15 2025 (IPS) - As the United Nations commemorated the UN Day for South-South Cooperation last Friday, we are reminded that solidarity among the countries of the… Read more »

Africa: Africa Calls for Homegrown Climate Solutions in Just Transition

African climate negotiators and civil society organizations at the second Africa Climate Summit (ACS 2) have called on governments to include sustainable farming approaches and… Read more »