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Building Peace Infrastructures: African Leaders Reflect on Peacebuilding
As the United Nations held its first-ever Peacebuilding Week (June 22-26), UN officials and developmental partners gathered at Egypt’s Permanent Mission on June…
My Journey Through 50 Years of Seychelles’ Independence
On the night of 29 June 1976, just before midnight, I stood among my fellow Seychellois at the heart of a moment that…
Universities Join Hands to Enhance Agroforestry Research for Mitigating Climate Change
A team of universities, led by Addis Ababa University, has joined forces to implement a four-year Intra-Africa academic mobility project aimed at strengthening…
Cuba’s Last Hand
This game of poker is ultimately about one thing — who dictates the terms for the country’s transformation. …
War, Heatwaves and Energy Shocks Fuel Push for Clean Energy
The 30 COP gatherings may not have done what three months of US-Israeli war against Iran did: expose the world’s vulnerability to fossil…
Colombia’s next President: A Reckoning for Peace, Climate and Human Rights
On 21 June Colombians made their choice. By the narrowest of margins, Abelardo de la Espriella, a far-right criminal lawyer who’s never held…
Aid Is Falling Fast. What Can African Countries Do?
For decades, official development assistance has been a central pillar of financing in sub-Saharan Africa. That pillar is now weakening—quickly and broadly. In…
From Nets to Numbers: How Kenya’s Small-Scale Fishers Use Data to Save Their Ocean
As the afternoon sun casts a golden glow over Mukwiro village on Wasini Island on Kenya’s Indian Ocean South Coast, Mwanasiti Mwalola, 26…
From Rotten Tomatoes to AI: Ugandan Commonwealth Youth Award Winner Takes Aim at Hunger Across Africa
Shifra Ainomugisha from Uganda is the 2026 Commonwealth Young Person of the Year. Her award was announced at the 2026 Commonwealth Youth Awards…
