February 25
Africa: Outlook for 2025 - Strengthening the Foundations of Children's Futures
In 2025, the world is facing a new and intensifying era of crisis for children. Climate change, economic instability, and conflict are hitting harder and more often, intersecting… Read more »
February 24
Africa: Civil Society At the Finance in Common Summit Calls for Community-Led, Equitable, and Human Rights-Based Development
As public development banks gather for the Finance in Common Summit (FiCS) in Cape Town, South Africa, civil society and community activists from across the world are demanding a… Read more »
Africa: Is the UN's Human Rights Agenda in Jeopardy?
The UN's human rights agenda is in danger of faltering since the Geneva-based Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) is planning to "restructure" the office,… Read more »
February 21
Sudan: Humanitarian Groups Face Challenges in Reaching the Sudanese Displaced Population
In the final quarter of 2024 ,there has been an escalation in the Sudanese civil war, with armed clashes between the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF)… Read more »
Tanzania: How Tanzania's Farmers, Pastoralists Paid the Price for a World Bank Project
A hush had fallen over Mbarali District, but it was not the quiet of peace--it was the silence of uncertainty. Read more »
Africa: Where Do UN Member States Stand On a Feminist Secretary-General?
The selection of the next UN Secretary-General (UNSG) will be a pivotal moment in global efforts to resist authoritarianism and work together to address shared problems. Where do… Read more »
February 20
Zimbabwe: Blamed for 'Causing' Droughts - Zimbabwe's LGBTQI Community Faces Climate Crisis Head-On
Wrongfully accused of 'causing droughts,' a group of LGBTQI people in Zimbabwe involved themselves in climate-smart agriculture and are now showing the way to mitigate climate… Read more »
Africa: Science Under Threat - How Researchers Can Fight Back
Scientists like me across the U.S. are distressed following the many policy changes, funding elimination, and firings that have happened since President Trump took office. More… Read more »
Africa: Social Media in the Global South Needs More Protections
In the western world, numerous studies over the past two decades have shown that the rise of social media in popularity has been linked to negative mental health symptoms,… Read more »
Egypt: The Arab States Must Stop Trump - and Netanyahu - in Their Tracks
Dr. Alon Ben-Meir is a retired professor of international relations, most recently at the Center for Global Affairs at New York University. He taught courses on international… Read more »
February 18
Africa: Shaping AI Rules Through Trade Agreements
The inclusion of AI provisions in preferential trade agreements (PTAs) has been steadily rising. Since 2019, when the China-Mauritius Free Trade Agreement first mentioned AI, PTAs… Read more »
February 17
Africa: Why a Global Tech Fund for the Poorest Countries Is a Smart Investment
The 4th International Conference on Financing for Development could catalyse coordinated action to close the financing gap and set the stage for a STI-driven transformation in the… Read more »
February 14
Africa: U.S. Pullout Gives Upper Hand to Human Rights Abusers Worldwide
When some of the world's "authoritarian and repressive regimes" were elected as members of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) -including Cuba, China, Russia, Kazakhstan and the… Read more »
February 13
Africa: Shutting Down USAID Threatens to Endanger World's Poorer Nations
The Trump administration's decision to dismantle the US Agency for International Development (USAID), the US government's primary channel for humanitarian aid and disaster relief,… Read more »
February 12
Africa: Race Against Time As Hunger, Poverty Rise Amid Growing Global Uncertainties
Nearly one in 11 people in the world and one in five people in Africa go hungry every day, a crisis primarily driven by chronic inequality, climate change, conflict and economic… Read more »
February 11
Africa: Imperialism (Still) Rules
Many in the West, of the political right and left, now deny imperialism. For Josef Schumpeter, empires were pre-capitalist atavisms that would not survive the spread of capitalism.… Read more »
Africa: Shaping Conditions for Fair, Equitable and Enduring Climate Finance
The global commitment to fair climate finance is at a crossroads. COP29 concluded with a disappointing New Collective Quantified Goal on Climate Finance (NCQG), leaving developing… Read more »
Namibia: Namibia's Drought Crisis - Building Resilience for Women and Girls
Communities in the Kavango West region of northern Namibia have firsthand experience of the severe impacts of climate change. The dry, cracked soil and emaciated livestock provide… Read more »
February 10
Africa: Decoding Africa's Energy Journey - Three Key Numbers
At night, when the world lights up, large swathes of Africa remain cloaked in darkness--a stark reminder of the continent's lack of reliable access to electricity. Read more »
February 07
Africa: WFP, FAO Warn of the Severity of the Climate Crisis and Food Insecurity
Over the past few years, climate shocks have become more frequent and have devastated economies and agriculture systems, exacerbating widespread malnutrition and hunger. It has… Read more »
Tanzania: Tanzanians With HIV Left in Crisis As USAID Funding Ends
At 9 a.m. on Monday, Mariam Msemwa clutched her clinic card tightly as she stood in line at Bagamoyo District Hospital's HIV Clinic in Tanzania's coastal region. The 19-year-old… Read more »
February 06
Africa: The Challenge of the 'Carbon Aristocracy'
For centuries, innumerable countries were ruled by an entrenched, typically inherited, political class: the "aristocracy." The term comes from the Ancient Greek words "aristos",… Read more »
Africa: Tax the Super-Rich. We Have a World to Win
Why can't there be education for every child? Why can't there be healthcare for everyone who needs it? Why can't everyone be freed from hunger and deprivation? Though these are… Read more »
Africa: Ending FGM Requires Strengthening Partnerships and Advocacy Efforts
February 6 is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). A practice deemed a gross violation of human rights, tragically the practice persists… Read more »
Congo-Kinshasa: Goma - What Have We Done to God to Deserve All This?
Two weeks after Goma was captured by the Rwandan-backed M23 rebels, many families who lost their loved ones are begging for peace. Some of them have had no news of their loved… Read more »
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