Analysts Say Biden's First Trip to Africa Should've Come Earlier in Presidency
VOA
After promising to visit Africa two years ago at the U.S. Africa summit in Washington, President Joe Biden makes his first presidential trip to the continent where he is visiting… Read more »
Food and Agriculture Announcements at COP29 were Positive Steps [guest column]
allAfrica
At its most human level, growth is the purpose of life. Avoid the death trap of under 5 child mortality - something roughly 13,400 children per day fail to do - and then hope for… Read more »
Make President Biden's Only Trip to Africa Count [press release]
HRW
First-Ever US Presidential Visit to Angola Should Highlight Human Rights Concerns Read more »
A Tomato, Sex and HIV - The High Cost of Inequalities [guest column]
allAfrica
This World AIDS Day, we have some good news. Our collective efforts are yielding results. There has been major progress in the HIV response in East and Southern Africa, the region… Read more »
Biden to Spotlight Angola's Lobito Corridor, His Legacy to Counter China in Africa
VOA
When U.S. President Joe Biden visits Angola in early December, he will put into focus his legacy infrastructure project aimed at securing crucial supply chains on the African… Read more »
Biden's Angola Trip To Focus On 'Narrowing Infrastructure Gap, Economic Partnership' [document]
White House
MODERATOR: All right, hello, everyone. This is Jessica Kosmider with the NSC press team. Thank you so much for joining us today, the day after Thanksgiving, for a… Read more »
Welight Lights Up 186 Villages Across Africa Via Mini-Grids
Capital FM
Mini-grid company WeLight has connected 186 villages across Africa to electricity, including 172 in Madagascar and 14 in Mali, as part of its rural electrification initiative. Read more »
COP16 - With Investment, Small-Scale Farmers Can Restore Lands And Deliver Significant Food Security, Climate, And Economic Benefits
IFAD
The UN's International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) calls for urgent investments to empower small-scale farmers to tackle land degradation and… Read more »
The Growing Militarization of China's Africa Policy
ACSS
China is leveraging its military training exercises with African forces to advance China's expeditionary capabilities and geostrategic ambitions. Read more »
COP29 Opened Carbon Markets to Cowboys When a Sheriff Is Needed [analysis]
African Arguments
Under the new carbon markets framework agreed in Baku, countries face no real repercussions if they fail to abide by the rules. Read more »
Power of Choice - Family Planning as a Tool for Sustainable Development [guest column]
allAfrica
Imagine a world where men bear the burden of family planning but lack the power to make decisions about it; a world in which the societal expectation to be fathers and husbands… Read more »
Confronting the Global Crisis of Land Degradation
IPS
A major new scientific report was launched December 1, a day ahead of the opening of the 16th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat… Read more »
Three Billion People Globally Impacted By Land Degradation
UN News
Three billion people around the world are suffering the impact of poor and degraded land which will "increase levels of migration, stability and insecurity among many communities,"… Read more »
Focus On Africa - IPBES Plenary Session Makes Inaugural Visit to Biodiverse Continent
IPS
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services' (IPBES) first Plenary session in Africa is a "crucial acknowledgement of Africa's important… Read more »
The 'Slow Onset, Silent Killer - ' Droughts Explained
UN News
Droughts across the world are intensifying and have become a "slow onset, silent killer" to which no country is immune, according to the UN's most senior official working on… Read more »
