Patients turned away from some hospitals as public sector wage strike continues The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union said strike action in support of a wage demand expanded on Monday in spite of a court interdict. The union said it would appeal against the Labour Court decision to interdict the strike. Patients were […]
Germany wants to empower women and girls worldwide with new feminist foreign and development policy strategies. The need in Africa is great, but major discussions loom. “If women are not safe, then no one is safe,” German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock wrote in her guidelines for feminist foreign policy. According to her own account, she […]
Not less than 7.3 million adolescent girls and women of reproductive age in Nigeria are undernourished, putting women and new-born babies at risk, a report by the United States Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has revealed. The report entitled: “Undernourished and Overlooked: A Global Nutrition Crisis in Adolescent Girls and Women” released ahead of the 2023 International […]
Sri Lanka is facing its worst economic crisis since 1948, while the Western Sahara, a territory that has been disputed in northwest Africa since 1976, is in a stalemate. UN peacekeeper, Major Chathurika Bombuwala, speaks to Gitika Bhardwaj about her experience as part of a series exploring women in international affairs. Chathurika Bombuwala, born in […]
Militant Islamist violence in Africa set new records for violent events and fatalities this past year. This continues a relentless decade-long upward trend. To give a sense of the accelerating pace of this threat, both violent events and fatalities have almost doubled since 2019. In a recent Africa Center for Strategic Studies analysis, we found […]
There were many surprises from the 25 February Nigerian National Assembly elections. Like a cyclone, the Peter Obi wave on 25 February swept across the South-east, part of the South-south and Lagos, and redesigned the political landscape of Nigeria. Those who dismissed the movement as a “social media” noise were left astonished and embarrassed as […]
Economists have urged African countries to shift to low-cost manufacturing – the path that led countries such as Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and Taiwan – to industrial prosperity. These East Asian economies – which recorded high growth rates of at least 7% between the 1950s and 1990s – are commonly referred to as the […]
The Kenya Medical Research Institute recently detected an invasive mosquito species in Laisamis and Saku subcounties of Marsabit county in Kenya’s northern region. This mosquito, Anopheles stephensi, is native to South Asia and the Middle East. It transmits the two malaria parasites that pose the greatest risk of severe illness and death: Plasmodium falciparum and […]
Desperate to will a preferred candidate to victory, Western journalists fell into a tunnel vision on Nigerian politics. Across the Western media, the outcome of Nigeria’s just concluded general election has been both shocking and disappointing. While the shock owes to the triumph of candidate Bola Tinubu of the All Progressives Congress (APC)–a contender the […]
London — One of my mentors, human rights lawyer Yasmin Jusu-Sheriff of Sierra Leone, once told me: “Individuals can be broken, they can be silenced. But it is very hard to kill an organisation of women”. Women lawyers across the African continent are proving that assertion by using the law to create a better world […]
While there are increasingly more African women in leadership roles, they are still significantly under-represented, including in the business and technology sector. However, there are a number of things businesses can do to change this, write Sinit Zeru and Ebere Okereke of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change. This International Women’s Day, the United […]
Tanzanians have been advised to take advantage of the global economic challenges by diversifying and increasing the productivity of products that are highly needed in international markets. Soaring food and energy costs have fuelled the highest rates of inflation since the 1980s in many countries and the biggest macroeconomic challenge in the modern era of […]
Standing up to 3 m tall and weighing up to 600 kg, illustrations of the massive primate Gigantopithecus blacki call to mind the mythical Himalayan Yeti. Dental remains of the prehistoric ape, which lived in the tropical forests of south China, have been dated to 1.8 million years ago, and scientists now know they were […]
While there are increasingly more African women in leadership roles, they are still significantly under-represented but there are a number of things businesses can do to change this … This International Women’s Day, the UN’s theme ‘DigitALL: Innovation and technology for gender equality’ could not be more timely given that we live in an increasingly […]
Bonn — The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. When it comes to land, gender inequalities are pervasive. Today, nearly half of the global agricultural workforce is female – yet less than one in five landholders worldwide are women 1. Women’s land rights are essential for their […]
Norma, Italy — The following opinion piece is part of series to mark International Women’s Day, March 8. International Women’s Day is right around the corner and it presents an obvious opportunity to dig into what female and empowerment means for different people. INXO invited their female CEO and two female board members to answer […]
An interview with Leila Aboulela whose latest novel returns to Khartoum’s 1884 siege to make a case for a different construction of history. AFRICAN ARGUMENTS: First, warm congratulations on yet another literary milestone. We would love to know how you came to write this book. Could you tell us about its genesis? LEILA ABOULELA: I […]
Lilongwe — ‘There are times when countries cannot go it alone, and this is one of them.’ Cholera outbreaks are exploding around the world, in places the disease has not been seen in decades. In Malawi, where we serve as members of parliament, an outbreak is currently breaking records. It is by far the worst […]