Global wars no longer need to cross borders to derail lives. By triggering widespread climate disruption, distant shocks drive up inflation and stall vital climate resilience across Africa. Dr Oulie Keita is Executive Director of Greenpeace Africa.
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By Ashraf Abdelaziz for Radio Dabanga The UN Security Council held an emergency session in…
Die jüngste Schließung unabhängiger Medien und ein neues Souveränitätsgesetz verdeutlichen die Verschärfung der politischen Kontrolle in Uganda. Sein Sohn, General Muhoozi Kainerugaba, ist in die Fußstapfen von Präsident Yoweri Museveni getreten und hat sich als sichtbarstes Gesicht der nie endenden Unterdrückung etabliert.
A school's approach to Artificial Intelligence is a management test, not a technology one. Discover the five crucial questions parents should ask to evaluate leadership, data governance, and teaching quality.
The year 2026 marks the 70th anniversary of the 1956 Women’s March against extending the dompas to the black women of South Africa. Every August, the commemoration of Women’s Month highlights the inheritances and unfinished legacies of women’s anti-apartheid resistance.
South Africa continues to react to gender-based violence downstream, but ending femicide requires confronting its true root cause: entrenched gender inequality in our homes, institutions, and daily lives.
African farmers are often criticised for growing crops the way their ancestors did. Critics say they must embrace (a very specific version of) modernity. That includes focusing on cash crops, buying hybrid seeds, and using commercial fertiliser.
For a younger generation in particular, cynicism about institutional religion has moved beyond the familiar woke labels of the 2010s. Rather, they find it difficult to relate to a religion that has nothing to say about their lived realities.
The islands of São Tomé and Príncipe were one of the earliest places where Europeans assembled the defining elements of the tropical plantation complex: enslaved African labour, monoculture of a single cash crop, industrial processing, racial hierarchy and export of those agricultural commodities abroad.
Danie Rosslee and EG Fourie were not early opponents of apartheid. Perhaps that is precisely why we should remember what happened when they changed. Deon Snyman is a political theologian who has worked in community development for the past 35 years and currently serves as Managing Director of the Goedgedacht Trust.
Seit dem Staatsstreich im Oktober 2025 sorgen russische Söldner für die persönliche Sicherheit von Oberst Michaël Randrianirina. Ein starkes Comeback, das Moskau bereits 2018 eingeleitet hat – zwischen Nostalgie für die Sowjetzeit, wirtschaftlichen und geostrategischen Interessen sowie dem Rückzug Frankreichs.
With the state as it is currently constructed, we will always be Barbarians outside the gate. And we will never belong, because the state does not see us as human beings.
Luc Anato, Mitbegründer von VEDI Action (Benin) und Mitglied der internationalen Koalition „Francophonie Zéro Plastique“ Vor einem Jahrhundert gab es noch keinen Kunststoff.
It was at 11:21 a.m. on Sunday, June 21, that things started to fall apart. Aliyu Muhammad was in the Malali area, Kaduna, northwestern Nigeria, working underneath a car when he missed a call from his wife. When he called back, someone else answered and asked him if he knew the owner of the phone.
When four members of Sudan’s Emergency Response Rooms travelled to London in March 2026 to accept the Chatham House Prize on behalf of the movement, the ceremony was widely celebrated as a moment of recognition for one of the most remarkable grassroots humanitarian responses in recent memory.
Our growers have weathered remarkable challenges before, and the fundamentals that have carried us through them are unchanged. But what the 2026 season should do is sharpen our focus on the two things within our control to secure a more profitable, sustainable and future-focused industry.
The relationship between religious authority and political power in Kenya is neither new nor straightforward. But under President William Ruto, the language of faith, providence and moral renewal has become unusually visible within the exercise of political power.
On Sunday 16 August I joined the vigil for Professor Arday in London’s Trafalgar Square in the summer’s heat, packed tight with thousands of protestors marking their respect, holding bunches of flowers aloft, and placards reading, ‘Rest in Power Professor Jason Arday.
Lesotho is two years into a national state of disaster: US tariffs have gutted its garment factories, unemployment has passed 30%, and its main trade lifeline is guaranteed for less than a year.