Cities have the authority and duty to consider children’s rights as part of climate change responses.
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Peacebuilding – Analysis and Comment
The World Bank board operates on the basis of reaching decisions by consensus. This means that any executive director must earn the respect of their colleagues to affect change.
Every five years, underlying ethnic rivalries are rekindled through songs, words, euphemisms, epithets and slurs.
These types of projects can be quite harmful. They affect the land, people and biodiversity and must be planned with all this in mind - building in future climate scenarios too.
Could South Africa’s flooding in 2022 have been foreseen? It has long been a challenge for scientists and engineers around the world.
Talks being facilitated by Qatar will determine whether Chad will be peaceful or once again be torn apart by armed conflicts.
A transition is underway in Somalia. There are massive risks if it is not handled with great care.
Online rage towards white communities and privileged classes can be read as fatigue with the postcolonial state.
Peddlers of dangerous ideas regarding the constitution should be reminded of what was done in the name of a legislative majority under apartheid.
The Nigerian government needs to understand that banditry is an act of warfare and should be treated as such.
The loss of income, economic and food insecurity, fear of infection, and death of family members resulted in feelings of frustration, anxiety and depression.
There is no evidence that international migrants are a major cause of unemployment in South Africa. Misinformation drives this misconception.
A quarter of South Africans in cities are living in informal settlements.
Women and girls living in poverty face many forms of discrimination and pressure during events like flood disasters.
The choice of Rwanda has a logic about it. But it’s also controversial.
Flooding is arguably even more problematic in informal settlements because of the lack of planning.
The sourcing of wheat has factored into the political and strategic decisions and security of many countries.
Wheat and bread play a central role for food security and political stability in Sudan.
Up to 257 million women who want to avoid pregnancy are not using safe, modern contraception methods
Public trust and confidence in the police is a concern in many parts of the world. How can Nigeria get it right?
Economic and energy policymakers are responsible for increasing both demand for and supply of electricity. There must be a surplus of energy which will encourage economic growth.
The creation of the G5 Sahel added to the traffic of security groupings in the region
Inequality in organisations is difficult to shift because they are entrenched by the status quo.
President Samia Hassan has set Tanzania on a change of course – time will tell if the pattern holds and addresses the country’s challenges.
Uganda uses unpredictability to combine democratic institutions with authoritarian power.