WHO’s safeguarding failure in the DRC has re-focused attention on the sexual misconduct that surfaces with disgraceful regularity in humanitarian, development, and peacekeeping operations worldwide.
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Peacebuilding – Analysis and Comment
The WHO and the manufacturers of the vaccine will be rallying countries, particularly those with high malaria burdens, to adopt the vaccine.
As is the case in other conflict and war situations, it was difficult to collect public data. So we examined tweets to understand what topics were being discussed.
These organisations are ideally placed to contribute their fine-grained local knowledge. They intimately understand the specific needs of the most vulnerable in their communities.
Some states are adopting subtle and sophisticated ways of controlling or shaping political agendas and discussion.
The grievances of those instituting the blockade are justified, to some extent. But the blockade will harm the entire nation instead of only disturbing the ruling elites.
Sexual exploitation and abuse requires an active rather than passive response.
South Africa has a huge gender gap in terms of policies and interventions that would help women entrepreneurs.
Natural resource abundance in a country should not translate into a curse.
The problem of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa is structural and fuelled by inequalities that transect race, class, gender, sexuality and age.
The next year appears likely to bring another sequence of La Niña-related droughts to eastern East Africa. The time to act is now or many will suffer.
Child labour rates, and potentially other sensitive subjects, are not being measured accurately
More teachers need to be employed to cope with the increasing number of students in secondary schools.
Critics have said that ranching is environmentally unsustainable because it results in land degradation. There are other reasons it’s not the solution.
Bouteflica’s two decades in power were the most damaging Algeria had experienced since independence from France in 1962.
Nigeria’s plan of de-radicalising and integrating former Boko Haram terrorists should be fine-tuned to achieve more.
Efforts to combat illegal fishing and fisheries crime must recognise the relationship between the sector and maritime security.
While inequality is a global problem, its growth is most pronounced and the political, social and economic challenges it poses are most complex and pronounced in the global South.
For Hissene Habre’s victims, the clock is ticking –many elderly ones have already died and will never see the compensation they were owed.
Constitutional amendments sought to make it easy for Kenyatta and Odinga to craft a broad tribal coalition against the deputy president.
In many conflict areas, children are especially susceptible to the effects of war. And using them as soldiers prolongs the conflict.
Informal employment is significant in sub-Saharan Africa. The plight of informal workers needs to be highlighted during the COVID-19 pandemic.
This grass may hold the key to improving milk yields from cows kept by small-scale farmers across the African continent.
Jihadi groups take advantage of endemic poverty, inequality, high unemployment levels, illiteracy, ethnic divisions, and poor governance to spread their campaign of violence in the Sahel region.
In principle, most conflicts end with peace negotiations. In the Ethiopian situation, it is a matter of when, not if.