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AU ‘Year of Reparations’ should look to the future and the past
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 27th February 2025 Reparations aim to repair relationships and prevent violence – a forward-looking approach could foster a more just global order. The African... →
US Paris climate agreement exit will hit Africa hard
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 27th February 2025 This week’s G20 finance meeting must galvanise a global climate agenda to mitigate the grave impact of the US withdrawal. On his first day in... →
Evaluating Macroeconomic Resilience: The Case of South Africa and Botswana
27th February 2025 Between 2000–2022, a series of financial shocks plunged both the South African and Botswanan economies into a crisis of declining per capita... →
Land reform in South Africa doesn’t need a new law: the state should release property it owns – economists
26th February 2025 South Africa’s new Expropriation Act, which was signed into law by President Cyril Ramaphosa in January 2025, has been at the centre of a political... →
15-million South Africans don’t get enough to eat every day: 4 solutions
26th February 2025 At least 15-million South Africans suffer from food insecurity. That means they don’t have enough nutritious food to live healthy lives. This is... →
ECOWAS is still pivotal to steadying The Gambia’s transition
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 26th February 2025 Divisions over the latest draft constitution, which extends executive power and term limits, necessitate ECOWAS’ involvement. Eight years ago, the... →
Pan-African scholar PLO Lumumba is correct – the African Union is ‘over 70% funded by outsiders’
By: Africa Check 26th February 2025 The African Union (AU) is a group of 55 African countries, with the African Union Commission (AUC) as its administrative arm. On 15 February 2025,... →
Africa relies too heavily on foreign aid for health – 4 ways to fix this
25th February 2025 There’s been a global trend in the reduction of aid to Africa since 2018. Donors are shifting their funding priorities in response to domestic and... →
DRC vs Rwanda at the African Court: why it could be a decisive moment for human rights and justice on the continent
24th February 2025 As the armed conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) rages on, calls are being made for non-military solutions. One such... →
Turning Africa’s legal advantages into benefits for climate refugees
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 24th February 2025 On paper, Africa is ahead of the world on climate-linked migration, but needs support to implement its progressive frameworks. The number of people... →
