Malawi: Malawi Moves to Regulate Carbon Trading Amid Transparency Concerns in Global Market

Malawi is increasingly pitching carbon trading as a source of revenue it needs to bolster the economy, which is suffering from foreign exchange shortages caused by a large trade… Read more »

Africa: Explainer - Understanding Carbon Trading and Its Rationale

In this explainer, IPS takes a look at carbon emissions trading, which allows an entity, unable to reduce carbon emissions to the required limits, to pay someone who is not only… Read more »

Africa: Lessons From Youth-Focused 'Future Action Festival' Ahead of UN Summit of the Future

The world has crossed the halfway point to the end of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) era amid multiple, unprecedented, and significantly destructive global shocks. Two of… Read more »

Gabon: Democracy, Civic Space and Fundamental Freedoms Are Under Attack, but Civil Society Is Here to Stay

During the Forus network's General Assembly which took place in Gaborone, Botswana, civil society organisations from across 65 countries highlighted the challenges facing them… Read more »

Africa: International Community Urged to End Impunity for Violence Against Healthcare in Conflicts

Governments and international agencies must do more to end impunity for violence against healthcare, campaigners have urged, as a new report shows that attacks on healthcare during… Read more »

Africa: Small Island Developing States Can Be Nature-Positive Leaders for the World

Small island developing states (SIDS) are scattered across the globe, dotting the Pacific Ocean, the Caribbean, the west and east coasts of Africa and the Indian Ocean. Read more »

Zimbabwe: Rising Temperatures Drive Human-Wildlife Conflict in Zimbabwe

Rising temperatures are being blamed for an increase in human-wildlife conflicts in Zimbabwe as animals such as snakes leave their natural habitat earlier than usual. Read more »

Africa: Ocean Action On Global Agenda As Negotiations to Save Biodiversity Deepen

The oceans are as fascinating as they are mysterious. Home to the largest animals to ever live on Earth and billions of the tiniest, the top 100 meters of the open oceans host the… Read more »

Africa: Educating the Mind Without Educating the Heart Is No Education At All

The words above, by the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle, serve as a reminder that we still have a long way to go to in educating ourselves. In doing so, we will naturally… Read more »

Africa: SBSTTA and SBI - Biodiversity Meetings Crucial for the Global South Begin

More than 1,400 delegates are present at two crucial meetings, where the topic of preserving the planet's ongoing biodiversity for the benefit of humanity is under discussion.… Read more »

Africa: Bringing the World's Food Production in Line With Global Climate Goals

Food systems--how we grow, transport, prepare, and dispose of the food we eat--are responsible for roughly one-third of all global greenhouse gas emissions. And those gases are… Read more »

South Africa: South Africa Will Be President of G20 in 2025 - Two Much-Needed Reforms It Should Drive

South Africa will play an important international role in 2025 as president of the G20. The G20 is a group of 19 countries as well as the African Union and the European Union.… Read more »

Kenya: Dissenting Voices At Nairobi Soil Health Forum Over Increased Fertilizer Use

As the Africa Fertilizer and Soil Health Summit convened in Nairobi to review the progress made in terms of increasing fertilizer use in line with the 2006 Abuja Declaration,… Read more »

Sudan: The Bleak Déjà Vu in Darfur

As dawn breaks over Darfur, my return after two decades feels heavy. Many millions are suffering once again. Twenty years ago, I was part of the humanitarian effort to make a… Read more »

Africa: Amid Record Displaced Persons, Migrant Remittances Spike - New IOM Report

While there have been a record number of displaced people worldwide, according to a new report by the International Organization for Migration (IOM), migrant remittances are… Read more »

Africa: Trade Liberalisation Kicked Away African Development Ladder

Africans have long been promised trade liberalisation would accelerate growth and structural transformation. Instead, it has cut its modest production capacities, industry and food… Read more »

Zambia: Beyond the Fields - Unraveling Zambia's Drought Crisis and the Urgent Call for Climate-Health Solutions

For most families in Zambia, April is traditionally a month of plenty--it is typically the beginning of a harvest season for various food and cash crops. Both fresh and dried… Read more »

Africa: Many African Nations Making Progress in the Rule of Law

The United Nations Office of Rule of Law and Security Institutions (OROLSI) supports the promotion of the rule of law, security, and peace in conflict-affected countries. Read more »

Africa: WHO Africa Advances African Science By Promoting Peer-Reviewed Research

The World Health Organization's African regional office and partners published over 25 peer-reviewed articles in scientific journals in 2023 as part of efforts to address the… Read more »

Niger: Niger's Military Coup Triggers Child Marriages, Sex Work in Neighboring Countries

A group of young girls aged between 15 and 17 sit tight, following attentively a lesson being taught by a Mualim (Islamic teacher) in a makeshift madrassah (Qur'anic school)… Read more »

Africa: Rich Nation Hypocrisy Accelerating Global Heating

Rich nations' climate hypocrisy is accelerating global heating, pushing the planet closer to irreversible catastrophe, with its worst consequences borne by the poorest, both… Read more »

Africa: Skills and Attributes The Next UN Leader Needs

What makes an effective UN Secretary-General? Read more »

Africa: Who Should be the Next UN Leader? - PART 4

With current UN Secretary-General António Guterres set to step down in 2026, who is in the running to replace him? In this seven-part series, Felix Dodds and Chris Spence… Read more »

Africa: Who Should Be the Next UN Leader? - Part 6

Michelle Bachelet is a formidable candidate to be the next UN Secretary-General. Some would even make her the frontrunner, should she choose to stand. Bachelet was the first female… Read more »

Africa: 'Toasting the World's Most Natural Talent' - UN Museum Campaign Recognizes Nature's Contributions to Music

Spearheaded by the Museum for the United Nations, a new campaign brings together music and ecology to spark people's interest and engagement in environmental conservation through… Read more »