Somalia: War, Hunger and a Housing Boom - Welcome to Africa's Most Crowded City

Conflict, drought and floods have pushed a record number of Somalis into Mogadishu, making it Africa's most crowded city, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said on… Read more »

Africa: Church of England Paves Way for Ceremonies to Welcome Trans People

"This new guidance provides an opportunity, rooted in scripture, to enable trans people ... to mark their transition in the presence of their church family," said Julian Henderson,… Read more »

Africa: The Global Compact for Migration - What Happened? and What's Next?

On December 10th, under a purpose-built tent in Marrakesh, Morocco, representatives from more than 150 countries affirmed their shared vision of a future in which migration is safe… Read more »

Kenya: Kenya Struggles to Give Life to Futuristic 'Silicon Savannah' City

Labourers milled around an unfinished eight-storey building in an expansive field in Konza dotted with zebra and antelope - the only visible sign of progress in a decade-old plan… Read more »

Africa: What If We Knew the Real Costs of Climate Change?

Mami Mizutori is the Secretary-General's Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction and the head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Read more »

Africa: Extreme Weather Menacing Lives, Livelihoods of Mountain People

In the dark hours before dawn each day, Mrs Saili and her three daughters quietly slip away from their Nepalese mountain village to begin their three-hour walk to the nearest river… Read more »

Africa: Fossil Fuel Tax Proposed to Cover Rising Costs of Wild Weather

Taxing the extraction of fossil fuels could help pay for the growing costs of damage from harsher storms, wildfires, floods and rising seas, while providing a stronger incentive to… Read more »

Africa: Human Rights Day - The Worst Cruelty Is Our Indifference

Today (December 10, 2018), we observe Human Rights Day. On this day, we remember that human dignity is universal and the prohibition of torture is absolute. At the same time, we… Read more »

Africa: It's Time for Those Who Caused Climate Change to Pay for It

Ralph Regenvanu is Vanuatu's Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Cooperation and External Trade and Avinash Persaud was special advisor to the Prime Minister of Dominica on… Read more »

Africa: City Action Key to Ensuring 'A Climate-Safe Future', Scientists Say

Compact pedestrian neighborhoods, urban forests and even carbon-sucking technologies must make the to-do list of more city mayors if the world is to avoid catastrophic climate… Read more »

Africa: Switch to Clean Energy and Save $500 Million, Aid Agencies Told

Aid agencies could save more than $500 million by choosing clean energy over fossil fuels in war zones and disaster areas, global think-tank Chatham House said in a report on… Read more »

Africa: Sexual Violence in Conflict - Nobel Awards Must Be Backed By Action

Governments have failed on pledges to tackle sexual violence in conflict. This year's Nobel prizes must change that. Read more »

Africa: Climate Action Must Not Leave Human Rights Behind

Seventy years since the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, we face one of the biggest challenges and injustices of all times Read more »

Africa: As People Who Live in Slums Battle to Stay Afloat, Little Help Is On the Way

In the east African cities of Nairobi and Dar es Salaam, hundreds of thousands of slumdwellers find themselves increasingly battling flooding brought on by extreme rainfall linked… Read more »

Africa: UN Talks Offer Helping Hand to People Uprooted By Climate Change

When indigenous groups from around the world met in Alaska in October, they sounded the alarm on how their homelands, cultures and livelihoods were threatened by rising… Read more »

Africa: Amid Soaring Violence, Efforts to Reinvigorate 'Toothless' UN Agreement On Rights Activists

Cristina Palabay knows what it means to be targeted - and left unprotected by her government. Read more »

Africa: From Mangoes to Maize, Climate Change Brings New Hunger Threats

In northern Ghana, where climate change is bringing an ever-shorter rainy season, struggling farmers are looking for more land they can plant to get enough of a harvest to feed… Read more »

Africa: New Migration Accord Recognizes Key Role of Cities

Cities say they will gain new recognition for their role in planning for and responding to influxes of migrants when countries adopt a major migration agreement next week. Read more »

Africa: French Military Enlists Green Group to Fight Climate Change

France's military has teamed up with an environmental non-profit for the first time to study the threat of climate change where the country is at war, a representative of the green… Read more »

Africa: Activists Denied Access to Poland for UN Climate Talks, Green Groups Say

Poland's deputy environment minister, Michal Kurtyka, said on Saturday he was in contact with the authorities over reports from campaign groups that at least 12 to 14 activists… Read more »

Africa: Act Now or Face 100 More Years of Child Marriage, Economists Warn

Researchers said governments needed to do more to change the social attitudes that favour FGM and child marriage Read more »

Tanzania: Seawalls and Forests Aim to Save the Living - and Dead - in Tanzania

For over 25 years, rising seas linked to climate change have caused repeated flooding on the small island of Kisiwa Panza Read more »

Southern Africa: El Nino Is Bringing Drought Threats for Business in Southern Africa

Coinciding with one of the strongest El Niño events since at least 1950, widespread droughts occurred throughout southern Africa during 2015/2016. The scale of impact on… Read more »

South Africa: Frenzy for Fish Means Torturous Life At Sea for Migrant Fishermen

"The international law which is most needed to make sure the fishing vessels are safe is not yet in force" Read more »

Africa: In a First for Continent, Niger Adopts Law to Protect Displaced People

Niger has adopted Africa's first national law for the protection and assistance of people fleeing violence, floods and droughts, the government and United Nations said on Thursday. Read more »