Gates Foundation advocates action to reduce mother, child mortality
Maureen Okpe The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has called for urgent action to reduce the rate of mother and…
How Can the Central African Republic Find Peace?
Last week, long-promised peace talks in the Central African Republic ended without progress. Rebel groups were not invited, and opposition parties boycotted…
Ukraine war threatens to cause a global food crisis
By Jack Nicas The war in Ukraine has delivered a shock to global energy markets. Now the planet is facing…
Africa opposes the Ukraine war. It’s abstaining from great power rivalry
By Chris Olaoluwa Ogunmodede Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, and the reaction it has drawn from the United States and the…
Boycotts, not bombs: Sanctions are a go-to tactic, with uneven results
By Ella Koeze In response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine late last month, Western powers turned to an increasingly common playbook: imposing a…
The war in Ukraine is going to change geopolitics profoundly
•Some bits will look familiar, some will look unprecedented “This morning we are defending our country alone,” declared Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s…
Israel’s new strategy
•Why a Post-American Middle East Means a Greater Role in Regional Security By Amos Yadlin and Assaf Orion On February 3,…
$1.1 billion needed for humanitarian assistance in North East this year-UN
Mukaila Ola United Nations has said $1.1 billion would be needed in 2022 to undertake humanitarian assistance in the troubled…
Africans need more seats at the tables of power
•Turn the G-20 into the G-21 by adding the African Union. By Hannah Ryder From the G-20 to the United Nations,…