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Rebooting Subsistence Agriculture in Rural Areas

bae@worldpolicy.org October 17, 2017 0 Comments

By Esther Ngumbi Achieving and fulfilling the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) overwhelmingly depends on making progress in rural areas, where most of the hungry and poor live. This was the main conclusion of the new report “The State of Food and…
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African Angle

Agriculture, Esther Ngumbi, Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)

Talking Policy: Akinwumi Adesina on Investing in Africa

bae@worldpolicy.org October 13, 2017 0 Comments

While previous U.S. administrations have established signature foreign-policy initiatives in Africa, little news has emerged regarding the Trump administration’s staffing of Africa-related posts, much less its plans for engagement with the continent. World Policy Journal editor emeritus David A. Andelman…
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Africa, Akinwumi Adesina, impact investing

Liberia’s Ambitious Education Policy

bae@worldpolicy.org October 10, 2017 0 Comments

By Saaim W. Naame Sub-Saharan Africa has the lowest school enrollment in the world. Yet even in this context, Liberia’s education indicators are shocking: Less than half of 15- to 24-year-olds are literate, less than half of young children attend…
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African Angle

Education, Liberia, Saaim W. Naame

The Persistence of Slavery in Mauritania

bae@worldpolicy.org October 5, 2017 0 Comments

By Madeline de Figueiredo The prevalence of slavery in Mauritania is among the highest in the world. The efforts the nation has made in the past few decades to not only dismantle the institutionalized practice, but also criminalize it, remain largely…
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African Angle

Madeline de Figueiredo, Mauritania, slavery

Can the Nigeria Solid Minerals Development Fund Deliver?

bae@worldpolicy.org October 3, 2017 0 Comments

By George C. Lwanda Established by the 2007 Mining Act and inaugurated in 2013, the Nigeria Solid Minerals Development Fund (SMDF) has struggled to take off, despite its noble intentions. The government’s goal is for the solid minerals sector to…
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African Angle

George C. Lwanda, minerals, Nigeria

New Reconciliation Law Threatens Tunisia’s Democracy

bae@worldpolicy.org October 2, 2017 0 Comments

By Amna Guellali On Sept. 13, the Tunisian parliament adopted a law that could threaten its hard-won fledgling democracy. The “administrative reconciliation law” will grant complete impunity to civil servants who were implicated in corruption under former dictator Zine El…
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Amna Guellali, Beji Caid Essebsi, Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali

Prioritizing Skin Bleaching as a Public Health Concern

bae@worldpolicy.org September 26, 2017 0 Comments

By Ogo Maduewesi  Skin conditions and diseases continue to be neglected, underestimated, and written off as problems that are not life-threatening. But this leaves the dangers of harmful skin-bleaching treatments—which are ubiquitous in Nigeria, across Africa, and among dark-skinned individuals…
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Ashoka, Nigeria, Ogo Maduewesi, skin bleaching

Popular Lynching in Madagascar

bae@worldpolicy.org September 19, 2017 0 Comments

By Yvon Randriaharimalala Incidents of popular vindictiveness, or “people’s courts,” have become increasingly common in Madagascar. In 2016, 44 cases of popular vindictiveness were reported in the country, and this phenomenon continues into 2017. Judgments issued by the people are…
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African Angle

Madagascar, Yvon Randriaharimalala

Stopping the Menace of the Fall Armyworm

bae@worldpolicy.org September 12, 2017 0 Comments

By Esther Ngumbi All over Africa, countries are battling fall armyworms. These crop-eating larval caterpillars are ravaging food supplies and posing major geopolitical challenges on the continent. Because the worms feed on over 80 plant species and develop into moths that…
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Africa, Esther Ngumbi, Food Security

Is the United Nations Failing to Prevent Atrocity Crimes in Burundi?

bae@worldpolicy.org August 22, 2017 0 Comments

By Amilcar Ryumeko As I have argued since February 2016, crimes against humanity are underway in Burundi. The country’s violent poitical crisis began in April 2015, sparked by President Pierre Nkurunziza’s announcement of his candidacy for an unconstitutional third term…
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Amilcar Ryumeko, Burundi, Human Rights, United Nations

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Bringing Data to Africa’s Climate Fight with the ENACTS Approach

The ENACTS Approach, by Dr.Tufa Dinku and his research team at the International Research Institute for Climate and Society, outlines a new strategy for getting high quality climate data from low resource environments in Africa.

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