October 04, 2023
Africa: Debt-Pushing As Financial Inclusion
Ajay Banga was anointed World Bank president for promoting financial inclusion. Thanks to its success and interest rate hikes, more poor people are drowning in debt as consumer… Read more »
October 02, 2023
Africa: Informal Workers Key to Successful Waste Management in Africa
With the African continent recycling less than 11 percent of its waste, COP28 provided leaders on the African continent to consider integrated waste systems that include informal… Read more »
Africa: The Human Cost of a Green Energy Transition Without Safeguards
The world is moving away from fossil fuels towards so-called "green" energies as a solution to the climate crisis, which has increased the demand for strategic minerals such as… Read more »
Ghana: Peacekeeper Cecilia Erzuah Promotes Gender Equality By Example
Cecilia Erzuah was torn between two opposite career paths at the end of university. The week she was supposed to begin military training, her professor offered her a position as a… Read more »
Seychelles: Small Islands With Big Aspirations
Everyone knows that small island states are on the frontline of global warming. Rising sea levels, acidification destroying fisheries and coral reefs, and changing patterns of… Read more »
September 28, 2023
Nigeria: Women Challenge 'Colonialist' Patriarchy
Bukes Saliu wakes up very early every workday to beat the gruesome Lagos traffic to head to a job quite unusual for a woman to engage in Nigeria. She is a forklift operator in one… Read more »
September 27, 2023
Zimbabwe: Zimbabwe's Food Security Ambitions in El Niño's Crosshairs
Zimbabwe is riding a wave of food security assurances after what officials said was last year's bumper grain harvest, but recent El Niño forecasts could test the country's… Read more »
Africa: Don't Count On Public-Private Partnership Solutions
In recent years, public-private partnerships (PPPs) have spread rapidly. While usually profitable for the private partners, PPPs have generally not served the longer-term public… Read more »
September 26, 2023
Africa: Alarm Bells Are Ringing At Halfway Point of the 2030 Agenda
The world is now half way to 2030 but the ambitious goals agreed in 2015 including the Paris Agreement and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are under threat, action is… Read more »
September 25, 2023
Africa: Beyond Words - the Urgent Call for the U.S. to Address Global Inequality Through Climate Action
With its global representation, one would expect the UN General Assembly to touch on many diverse issues. And it does. But talks have repeatedly come back to one unifying call: if… Read more »
Africa: Poverty & Hunger Eradication Targeted to Miss UN's 2030 Deadline By Wide Margins
When the UN's 193 member states reviewed the current status of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), including the eradication of extreme poverty and hunger by 2030, the… Read more »
Africa: African Coups and Resource Rights
When the heads of state of all United Nations members spoke in front of the UN General Assembly last week, a number of African leaders were not able to attend, having been removed… Read more »
September 22, 2023
Africa: UN Meets On Effective Responses to Loss and Damage Ahead of COP28
African countries are increasingly in the eye of deadly climate-induced disasters. Recent devastating extreme events include intense shattering earthquakes in Morocco, followed… Read more »
September 21, 2023
Uganda: The Bitter-Sweet Sides of Uganda's Oil and Gas Development
French oil and gas giant TotalEnergies and China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) are moving with pace in the development of oil and gas projects with a potential… Read more »
Seychelles: The Ocean Offers Rich Solutions for Climate Change
For the people of Seychelles, the ocean is more than just a source of livelihood. It is also a way of life. About 80% of our homes and infrastructure are located along the coast… Read more »
September 20, 2023
Africa: Why Root Crops Are the Future of Food Security in Africa
Despite the dominance of the "Big Three" cereal crops and a steady rise in meat consumption, an overlooked food sector is projected to become ever more central to Africa's food… Read more »
Egypt: Population Increase in Egypt - a Blessing That Has Become a Curse
The population of Egypt increased from 104 million in November 2022 to 105 million in June 2023, according to the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics (CAPMAS).… Read more »
Africa: Dangerous Scramble for Renewable Energy Resources
The growing and changing material requirements for new technologies have triggered natural resource scrambles for strategic minerals, generating dangerous rivalries fought out in… Read more »
September 19, 2023
Africa: UN, Still Living in the 1940s, Urgently in Need of Reforms
Politically, the United Nations has largely been described as a monumental failure --with little or no progress in resolving some of the world's past and ongoing military conflicts… Read more »
September 18, 2023
Africa: We Must Act to Bridge the Gap Between Words and Deeds
The author is Commonwealth Secretary-General Read more »
Africa: Deepening Democracy in an AI-Enabled World
In 2002, the Human Development Report (UNDP) focused on 'Deepening Democracy in a Fragmented World'. It was an important discourse then [and still is] that evoked lot of insightful… Read more »
September 15, 2023
Liberia: Carbon Colonialism Has No Place in Liberia's Forests
The fate of Liberia and its forests are entwined. Yet a new climate change deal, set to be announced at the UN climate change talks in Dubai this November, would drive a wedge… Read more »
Africa: African Agro-Processors Call for Policies Conducive to Local Manufacturing
Experts at the Africa Food Systems Forum (AGRF) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, have called on African governments to make and review existing policies to protect the processing and… Read more »
Africa: Halfway to 2030 - Our 5 Asks At the SDG Summit
By Bibbi Abruzzini and Marie L'Hostis Read more »
Africa: Youth Rally for Peace Through Climate Justice At the UN
"What do we want? Climate justice! When do we want it? Now!" youth chanted in an unusually lively conference at the United Nations Headquarters. Read more »