Africa: Experts Launch a Climate and Health Curriculum for African Negotiators At COP30

Despite climate change being a health risk multiplier, health is often underrepresented in climate negotiation processes. Read more »

Africa: Banks Embed Climate Risk, Gender and Sustainability in Finance Products

Ahead of the Conference of the Parties (COP30), the Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) in Addis Ababa is looking to mobilize billions for renewable energy, sustainable… Read more »

Africa: Japan Backs Africa's Health Future At TICAD

UNITED NATIONS, Sep 8 2025 (IPS) - At a time of great transformation for global health, solidarity is more important than ever. As other countries have retreated from their… Read more »

Angola: 'Angola Produces Large Quantities of Oil and Diamonds, Yet Most People Don't See the Benefits'

CIVICUS discusses recent protests in Angola with Florindo Chivucute, founder and executive director of Friends of Angola, a US-based civil society organisation established in 2014… Read more »

Togo: Togo's Young Generation Challenges Six Decades of Dynastic Rule

In late June, thousands flooded the streets of Lomé, Togo's capital, presenting the ruling dynasty with its biggest challenge in decades. Read more »

Sudan: Unicef to Deliver 1.4 Million Cholera Vaccines to Sudan Amid Supply Chain Breakdowns

In Tawila, North Darfur State in Sudan, more than 1,180 cholera cases, including 300 cases in children, and at least 20 deaths have been reported since the first case was detected… Read more »

Africa: Aid Funding Crisis Means Parliamentarians' Visionary Leadership Even More Crucial

As funding for sexual and reproductive health rights was on a "cliff edge," parliamentarians now needed to play a "visionary" leadership role because "financing strong, resilient… Read more »

Africa: Feminist Electrification - the Power Africa Needs

Chad is one of the most extreme examples of energy poverty, with just 10% of the population connected to electricity, a rural electrification rate below 2%, and a global per capita… Read more »

Africa: Boosting Trade in the World's Least Developed Countries - the Power of Technology

Artificial intelligence and the use of frontier technologies are already transforming trade and boosting prosperity, particularly for developed and some developing countries. This… Read more »

Zimbabwe: The Climate Crisis is Breaking the Journalists Who Tell Its Story

My family lost six herds of cattle during the devastating El Niño-driven drought that swept Zimbabwe in 2024. The loss was as emotional as it was financial. Guilt gnawed at… Read more »

Mozambique: Environmentalists Confident Case Against Us Funding of Mozambique LNG Project Will Succeed

Environmental campaign groups are confident that a suit filed in the United States, seeking to stop the country's Export-Import Bank (EXIM) from the 'unlawful' lending of nearly… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Moment - From Addis to the World, Food Systems Must Change Now

Dr. Stefanos Fotiou is Director, UN Food Systems Coordination Hub Read more »

South Sudan: UN Security Council Confronts South Sudan's 'Compounding Crises'

Security Council members discussed solutions to the climate crisis in South Sudan, advocating for more humanitarian aid and influence from international bodies to foster democracy… Read more »

East Africa: Sexual Health Rights - Contradictions in East African Laws, Policies

Sarah Namukisa nearly missed her final year exams earlier this year. She was subjected to a mandatory pregnancy test--the 25-year-old student at the Medical Laboratory Training… Read more »

Africa: Visualizing a Sustainable Future - the Intersection of Art and Climate Justice

In the 1900s, global discussions around climate change and fossil fuel usage reached new heights, leading to the emergence of climate change art. Since then, it has remained a key… Read more »

Africa: Peacebuilding - the Missing Peace in COP30 Climate Ambition

Peacebuilding, conflict prevention, and crime prevention are no longer niche security concerns--they are global imperatives for sustainable climate action. From the migration… Read more »

Africa: Four Years Later, Still No Clarity - WHO Report Highlights Gaps in Global Cooperation

More than four years since Covid-19 upended the world, the question of how it began remains unanswered. Did SARS-CoV-2 originate from animals to humans naturally, or did it… Read more »

Africa: Bending the Curve - Overhaul Global Food Systems to Avert Worsening Land Crisis

Current rates of land degradation pose a major environmental and socioeconomic threat, driving climate change, biodiversity loss, and social crises. Food production to feed more… Read more »

Africa: Inequality Worsens Planetary Heating

The accumulation of still growing greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) in an increasingly unequal world is accelerating planetary heating. It is also worsening disparities, especially… Read more »

Sudan: Women in Sudan Are Starving Faster Than Men - Female-Headed Households Suffer

The food crisis in Sudan is starving more day by day, yet it is affecting women and girls at double the rate compared to men in the same areas. New findings from UN-Women reveal… Read more »

Africa: 5 Bridging the Digital Divide - How AI Risks Marginalizing Indigenous Peoples

Although the advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) yields numerous opportunities for progress--such as improved efficiency, enhanced decision-making, and innovative tools for… Read more »

Kenya: From Conflict to Climate Crusade, Refugees Lead the Charge in Kenya

For 18-year-old Lionel Ngukusenge, a refugee from Burundi, where he was forced into hiding because of a repressive regime, he has found another foe to contend with at the Kakuma… Read more »

Africa: Landlocked Developing Countries to Start 'New Decade of Delivery'

As the Third United Nations Conference on Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDC3) concludes today (Friday, August 8) in Awaza, Turkmenistan, with the adoption of the Awaza… Read more »

Africa: Women From Landlocked Developing Countries Set Sights On Open Horizons

"Progress towards gender equality and equity remains uneven and far too slow. One in four women in landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) live in extreme poverty, and this is… Read more »

Africa: Africa's 'Land-Linked' Nations Chart a New Trade Route to Prosperity

Once relegated to the periphery of Africa's economic map due to their lack of coastline, the continent's landlocked developing countries (LLDCs) are now reframing their geographic… Read more »