The return of Patrice Lumumba’s remains must not be an occasion for Belgium to congratulate itself, but for a full accounting of the colonial violence that led to the assassination and coverup
Family hopes for answers now that a probe has been completed into a friendly fire incident that killed a South African soldier in the DRC
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No to ‘climate-stupid’ agriculture
Resolution 1325 marks a milestone in the UN’s thinking about women: their lives are multilinear and multiple factors affect their participation in public and private life
Freedom of conscience and movement cannot be used as a reason
not to wear a mask or to be vaccinated
A United Nations spokesperson said the latest detentions had occurred in the capital of Afar province, on the only functional road leading into famine-threatened Tigray.
We were warned at least 65 years ago but have only now started to talk about the climate crisis
South Africa, the continent’s largest emitter, is not among several African countries that joined the UK-led coalition committing to phase out the fossil fuel
Michelle Bachelet insisted on the need to bring perpetrators of a vast array of rights abuses to justice
The latest United Nations report on the greenhouse gas emissions gap paints bleak picture for the climate accord target
The Democratic Alliance leader rebuking cricketer Quinton de Kock would be this election season’s greatest triumph
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On Monday soldiers detained Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, his ministers and civilian members of Sudan’s ruling council, who have been heading a transition to full civilian rule
Financial investments and high-tech measures aimed at increasing farm productivity and cutting food waste can solve chronic global hunger by 2030
The sense that the commissioners who nominated five candidates for appointment to the Constitutional Court voted for their constituencies, rather than with their conscience, is difficult to shake off.
After 30 years of research, the World Health Organisation is finally recommending the widespread use of a malaria vaccine
Ecosocialism will build solidarity with people to establish food and water commons, carbon-free public transport and community-owned renewable energy
‘We know what needs to be done, we just need to get on with what we need to do,’ said the former finance minister
The system needs to be more open and inclusive to give young people, civil society, the private sector, academia, and others a spot at the table
The Global Climate and Health Alliance says South Africa’s low score means there is room for improvement
Corporal Simanga Khuselo join the peacekeeping mission in the DRC to save money to build his family a home
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Ugandan opposition leader’s popularity frightened Museveni into even greater autocracy
Wars and pandemics have managed to reduce global emissions in the past but delegates to COP 26 in Scotland will need to find other solutions
What’s been happening on the continent this week?
Residents of Kabwe have been poisoned for decades and now UN experts have called for an urgent clean-up
The Food and Agriculture Organisation’s QU Dongyu says food systems have to be transformed to make them more resilient and inclusive.
With Mondays enforced as off-days from work in conflict-ridden Cameroon, gathering at dog meat eateries to consume the delicacy and drink alcohol has become a weekly pastime.
Draft text released for a post 2020 framework to guide biodiversity recovery as we enter the UN Decade of Restoration
Elizabeth Nyamayaro’s new book argues that the philosophy from Africa can change the way the West interacts with the continent it colonised, stereotypes and continues to misunderstand
He is spurning birthday presents to plant trees in Kenya, help protect African grey parrots
Critics argue that South Africa’s latest submission to the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights is a unilateral and fraught exercise
Eswatini’s acting prime minister recently encouraged citizens to make use of an email address to express their concerns
Twenty-six years after the Beijing Declaration, which set the target for reaching gender balance in political decision-making, women are still underrepresented across all levels of power