Category: Featured
Malawi Bets on Battery Storage to Climate-Proof Its Fragile Power Grid
For years, Malawi’s electricity supply has been at the mercy of droughts, floods and cyclones that have repeatedly exposed the vulnerability of a…
Obstetric Violence: Syrian Women Speak Out
The abuse 30-year-old Nour Al-Badawi experienced in an Aleppo public hospital while giving birth resulted in her having two major follow-up operations and…
Asia’s Energy Progress Is Great, But Must Pick Up Pace
In much of the Asia-Pacific region, energy is a success story. Electricity access has greatly increased and the use of clean cooking fuels…
Where Some See Waste, Others See Opportunity: Young Sierra Leoneans Fight Against Electronic Waste, Plastic Pollution
Growing up, Peter George, a young innovator in Bo District in Southern Region, Sierra Leone, watched people dump electronic waste near the farmland…
Burkina Faso’s Cancelled Democracy
Burkina Faso’s charismatic young military leader, army captain Ibrahim Traoré, has stopped pretending. In April, he declared that people should ‘forget about the…
US Arms Stockpiles Hit by Iran War
The highly- unpredictable five-month-old US-Iran war has been plagued by on-again, off-again peace agreements — with such monotonous regularity– the conflict seems never…
The Year of Pastoralists Must Be More Than Symbolic
This is supposed to be the year the world finally sees and recognizes pastoralists. The United Nations has designated 2026 as the International…
Rohingya Refugees Seeking Safe Haven in Bangladesh Hit by Fresh Disasters
Abdu Rozork awoke suddenly to the sound of children screaming. Heavy monsoon rains had sent a landslide barrelling into the section of their…
CHINA: ‘The Ethnic Unity Law Means There Is One Acceptable Way to Be Chinese’
CIVICUS speaks about China’s recently implemented Ethnic Unity Law with Gulchehra Hoja, a correspondent for Reporters Without Borders and a Uyghur activist…
New Chickpea Variety to Drive Climate Resilience in Africa
New chickpea seed research and production have become the new frontier of climate resilience in southern Africa as farmers battle failing cereal production….
