While politicians raced to publish words of comfort and support, their movement to action was rather slow.

African leaders will have to strategically select their partners to fund and sustain their individual needs.

Set to replace the current Bolsa Familia programme in November, the initiative aims to help families living in extreme poverty, and those with pregnant women and young children, by guaranteeing a minimum of 400 Reais (approximately $72 US) per month to each family.

The pandemic offered a great starting point to “build back greener and better.”

The protesters are responding to a proposed expansion of the Mary River iron-ore mine that would see the mine operator, Baffinland Iron Mines, double its annual production to 12 million tonnes.

Despite restrictions, childhood education cannot be halted, which makes online education more important than ever.

Chinese and American companies are racing to build out their tech infrastructures and bring high-speed internet connection to the continent.

Presidential authoritarianism, despite bringing benefits to Rwanda in this case, should not be emulated as a strategy elsewhere in Africa.

The COVID-19 pandemic initiated a record drop in greenhouse gas emissions of an astonishing seven per cent, but it is not necessarily long lasting.

Towards the end of 2019, a severe dry spell across East Africa was followed by two similarly intense cyclones, ultimately ushering in a swarm of desert locusts.

Currently, there are 820 million people suffering from food insecurity, signaling the dire need to mitigate this global issue.

What does the West want?

The end of Pinochet’s military dictatorship in the 1990s did not translate into a shift away from the free market economic policies that dominated his rule in the 70s and 80s.

There is still a long road to universal equity and inclusion.

Mismanagement of public funds and failed policies have led to Venezuela’s economic constraints, food and medicine shortage, the collapse of public services and a sustained increase in violence.

Nigerian Farmers and pastoralists have historically shared a symbiotic relationship during this migration season, with farmers providing leftover crop for cattle, and pastoralists’ cattle providing fertilizer for the farmers’ fields. It is changed.

The ultimate goal is to build an organizational culture in which people not only fear the consequences of perpetrating abuse, but also one in which everyone feels safe coming forward with any situation that makes them uncomfortable on the job.

Several Arctic and non-Arctic states signed an unprecedented agreement to regulate Arctic fisheries in November 2017.