May 12, 2022
Africa: Facing Multiple Food and Health Crises, Africa Must Lead Boldly
Africa's leaders to rally together for urgent, practical responses to protect the most vulnerable from a tsunami of shocks undermining the livelihoods of millions Read more »
May 10, 2022
Africa: To Win Climate Action, Add Trust and Stir #AfricaClimateCrisis
A fair transition cannot be achieved by celebrating green development while sacrificing justice Read more »
Zimbabwe: Hit Hard By Storms and Forest Loss, Zimbabwe Builds Stronger Homes
For Florence Panda, the best thing about her new house in eastern Zimbabwe is not the modern design or the size, big enough for her family of nine. Read more »
May 09, 2022
Africa: Are Cryptocurrencies the New Digital 'Blood Diamonds' of Africa?
Across the world's troubled spots, resource wars and economic crises are being fuelled by a new kind of high-tech "blood diamond" - cryptocurrency. Read more »
May 04, 2022
Kenya: How Charging for Wasted Water Helps More Farmers Get a Fair Share
A project to install irrigation meters has encouraged upstream farmers to use only what they need, leaving more for those downstream Read more »
May 03, 2022
Zimbabwe: Big Bucks - Drought-Hit Zimbabweans Cut Poverty, Poaching With Larger Goats
The project to breed bigger goats and raise incomes aims to help communities feed their families without wiping out local wildlife, as extreme weather hurts crops Read more »
Africa: Why Millions of Africans Are Right to Resist Mobile SIM Card Registration
Mobile SIM registration linked to digital ID is causing exclusion of marginalised groups, and concerns about privacy in the absence of sufficient legal safeguards, especially in… Read more »
April 29, 2022
Africa: Drones to Data - Africans Turn to Healthtech
Stanley Ngwira was used to seeing mosquitoes throng the big sky over his village in Malawi, but a drone hovering above the swarms was a new sight altogether for the retired… Read more »
April 28, 2022
Africa: What #AfricaClimateCrisis Needs - Young People
Climate change is our inheritance. We should not be bystanders to processes and decisions that determine our future Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Wet Weather Dampens Rainforest Loss in 2021 - But Not in DR Congo
Fewer fires led to lower levels of tropical forest loss last year but governments will need to act much faster to meet a promise to end deforestation by 2030 Read more »
Africa: Factbox - Global Tropical Forest Loss Falls in 2021 but Outlook Bleak
Brazil saw the largest forest losses due to commercial clearing, followed by Democratic Republic of Congo, while palm oil giants Indonesia and Malaysia made headway in stemming… Read more »
Africa: Twitter - Should We Stay or Should We Go?
Elon Musk's Twitter takeover raises concerns for human rights, so should activists be boycotting the social media channel, or standing firm? Read more »
April 27, 2022
Africa: Here's How to Reverse Land Degradation
From South Africa to Kenya, Africa is fast losing healthy land - but solutions are emerging Read more »
April 26, 2022
Africa: Humanity On 'Spiral of Self-Destruction' As Disasters Rise, UN Warns #AfricaClimateCrisis
Disasters have cost an average of about $170 billion each year in the last decade but developing nations and their poorest people suffering disproportionately Read more »
April 25, 2022
Zimbabwe: 'I Do Not Depend on a Man to Survive' - Women-Only Rangers Fight Poachers and Poverty
The Akashinga unit offers a rare chance for poor and marginalised women, like school drop outs and abuse survivors, to build a career and protect nature Read more »
December 21, 2020
Africa: Climate Risks to Health Set to Worsen Inequity, Harm Children
From poor families in flood-prone homes to women required to cover up in extreme heat, climate change will hit the health of vulnerable groups the hardest, warns Kristie Ebi Read more »
April 20, 2020
Africa: Amid Coronavirus, Let's Not Forget About Indigenous People
Indigenous communities play a critical role in preventing the emergence of diseases and must be involved in the response to the pandemic Read more »
August 19, 2019
Sierra Leone: With Reservoirs At Risk, Freetown Confronts Water Crisis
Half the year, Iyatunde Kamara worries torrential rains will wash her house off its hillside and into the rivers of waste that flow through Sierra Leone's capital Freetown. Read more »
April 09, 2019
Kenya: Righting Colonial-Era Wrongs in Land Rights
The continued dominance of colonial-imposed laws over pre-existing customary legal systems, has been the bane of land rights disputes involving indigenous peoples across the globe… Read more »
February 06, 2019
Sudan: 'It's About Freedom' - Women On the Frontline of Uprising
When public protests erupted in Sudan over the rising cost of bread almost two months ago, women's rights activist Hala Al-Karib did not hesitate to join the masses on the streets… Read more »
August 27, 2018
Africa: Half the World's Schools Lack Clean Water, Toilets and Handwashing
Nearly half the world's schools lack clean drinking water, toilets and handwashing facilities, putting millions of children at risk of disease, experts warned on Monday. Read more »
July 03, 2018
Kenya: With Refrigerated ATMs, Camel Milk Business Thrives
Halima Sheikh Ali is the proud owner of one of the few ATMs in Wajir town in northeast Kenya. But rather than doling out shilling notes, it dispenses something tastier: a fresh… Read more »
June 07, 2018
Tanzania: Maasai Clash With Tanzania in Court Over Eviction From Serengeti
Maasai herders near Tanzania's famous Serengeti wildlife park have asked a regional court to stop the government intimidating witnesses supporting their legal bid to return to… Read more »
January 26, 2018
Congo-Kinshasa: Football and Singing Could Give Girl Soldiers a Second Chance in Congo - Charity
"All they wanted was to be like all the other girls, they just wanted to be accepted and have friends" Read more »
October 09, 2017
South Sudan: Going to School Unlikely If You're a Girl - Report Says
"Over 130 million girls are still out of school - that's over 130 million potential engineers, entrepreneurs, teachers and politicians whose leadership the world is missing out on" Read more »