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Key Issues to Watch in the Kenyan Election
The Kenyan presidential election on August 8 is one of the most important African elections to watch this year. It’s sure to be a close and potentially contentious election, with two familiar opponents...
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Youth Employment Is Key to Development in Africa
Germany recently hosted the Group of 20 (G20) summit in the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg. During the much-anticipated summit, Germany unveiled the “Marshall Plan for Africa,” a broad plan...
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When A South African Court Undermines the Last Remaining Pillar of Globalization
G20 leaders met in the port city of Hamburg, a symbol of international commerce, on July 7 and 8 looking for the keys of globalization through investment. Thousands of kilometers away to the South, the...
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Why Aging Is Key to Global Health Policy
Demographic aging is transforming all societies around the world, and this 21st century megatrend demands a similar transformation of global health policy. Now and in the coming decades, the World...
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Africa’s Population: Failure Is Not an Option
We are used to social media exploding and controversy over statements made by President Donald Trump. But over the past month, a shockwave of anger and charges of European arrogance and racism have...
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War, Famine and Disease: Yemen is at the Brink of Collapse
A perfect storm has been brewing in Yemen. Along with air strikes that have obliterated cities to rubble, millions of homeless civilians suffering from famine and a tangled political climate, Yemen is...
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How Can We Transform Societies for Good?
Announcing the September 2017 Issue V, Vol XI Cover Theme: Global Goals: The Solution for the Sustainable Development Goals is in Front of Us Editors’ Note: From Davos in January to New York this...
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Climate Change’s Crippling Effect on Africa
The African farming communities that have scrapped by with low food resources and water scarcity for generations now face an obstacle that could led to their ultimate destruction. With climate change...
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Time for the SADC To Break Free of Commodity Exports
As the 37th Southern African Development Community (SADC) summit made clear, boosting private investment in the natural resources industry is the preferred investment strategy pursued by African...
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The Future is Better Than You Think
Announcing the 2017 Global Action Report in partnership with the Global Action Platform Dare to turn on the news. It is a constant bombardment; stories of war, death, terrorism, political scandal, and...
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Five Years of Global Action on Food, Health, and Prosperity
From 2012-2016, Global Action Platform engaged over four hundred of the world’s leading experts and executives in food, health, and economics to define the major challenges and opportunities for...
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Rising Attacks on Environmental Defenders Threaten Human Rights Goals Globally
“I have been told that my name is on a hit list…but I haven’t been killed yet.” These were the chilling words of Mzama Dlamini, a South African community activist, to a gathering of environmental...
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Creating Inclusive Jobs in The Food System
Between now and 2030, about 1.6 billion people will reach working age in low and middle income countries. Together with sustaining and improving the quality of self and wage employment of the billions...
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The Food Generation: Reconnecting Food to the People and the Planet
Food is not a commodity. Food is not a business. Food is not a consumer good. Food is a human right. We know the global industrial food system did miracles to broaden food access and reduce hunger, but...
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Leaders Must Put Migration Back on Global Agenda
There was much excitement at 2016’s special United Nations summit on migration and refugees. This was the first such summit of world leaders and the declaration at the end of it committed to finding a...
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Managing Change through High Quality Data: The 2017 Change Readiness Index
No country is immune to change. Whether the ‘change’ in question is a natural disaster, financial crisis, or an economic opportunity brought about by new technology, how a country’s government, private...
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Stop Politicizing EU Aid to Africa
In his State of the Union speech on September 13th, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker called for member states to contribute more to the EU-Africa Trust Fund—or run the risk of a new wave of...
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G5 Sahel Joint Force to Combat Terrorism in Africa
Mali says the G5 Sahel Joint Force to Combat Terrorism should be fully operational in the next few months, despite its current budget shortfalls. The task force is a regional effort to address...
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The State of Epidemiology in Ethiopia: A Conversation with Dr. Taye Balcha,...
Dr. Taye Balcha, MD, PhD, MPH, was appointed by Ethiopia’s prime minister, H.E. Hailemariam Desalegn, as Director General of the Armauer Hansen Research Institute in June 2016. The Armauer Hansen...
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Illicit Financial Flows: How to Patch Up Africa’s $50 Billion Hole
For African governments desperate for more cash to invest in infrastructure and public services, there exists a deep well of untapped resources: the estimated $50 billion that the continent loses...
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OpEd: Women of Khayelitsha – Writing Hope into the History of HIV/AIDS
The women of Khayelitsha are humbling, resilient young women and they are at the epicentre of the continuing HIV/AIDS crisis in South Africa. They’re strong and they need to be. They provide...
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What Does the Fall of Mugabe Mean for Africa’s Other Strongmen?
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe’s ousting after 37 years in power in the recent coup-that-wasn’t-a-coup is the third time this year that one of the continent’s strongmen has unexpectedly left...
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Slavery in Libya Exemplifies How the Refugee Crisis Has Led to a Loss of...
How, in 2017, is African slavery still a widespread tragedy? The answer lies in the populations of people defined by loss and displacement: migrants. In the past couple years, the refugee crisis has...
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Modern Slavery Goes Beyond the Libya Slave Trade
The auctioneer calls, “Does anybody need a digger? This is a digger, a big strong man, he’ll dig. What am I bid, what am I bid?” The auctioneer is selling a man, a slave, and that man’s bid goes for...
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The Future of Work and Global Talent: What About the Poor?
It is now widely accepted that the future of work requires different set of talent and skills. It is also argued that the global economic ideology is shifting from Capitalism to Talentism—a new era...
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Introducing the Olympics of Innovation
Announcing the January 2018 Vol XII, Issue I Cover Theme: The World in 2050 and The Olympics of Innovation The issues, which define the 21st century are unfolding daily. As populations grow and urban...
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Impressions from the 2018 Global Talent Summit – Report Launch
Announcing the February 2018 Vol XII, Issue II Cover Theme: Global Talent Summit 2018 Report: Essays on the Future of Work, Education, and Organizations PART I: THE FUTURE OF EDUCATION While the...
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The Most Neglected Crisis of 2017
The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) was the most neglected crisis of 2017, and the ongoing impact is shocking. 1.7 million people have been displaced due to conflict, 7.7 million...
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Local Citizens Play Key Role in Promoting Peaceful Elections in Liberia
In January, Liberia completed its first peaceful transition of power between democratically elected leaders in decades when George Weah was inaugurated as president. This was a significant moment for...
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Amazing Grace in American Civic Actions
Far from the glitzy Silver Screen and the shining Oscars, there’s an amazing grace in the true American spirit through citizens’ diplomacy and civic actions. On the macro level, one sees this in the...
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Accelerating the Development and Delivery of New Innovations for a TB-Free World
Before the World Economic Forum, Davos’ first claim to fame was as a haven for wealthy tuberculosis sufferers in the 1800s and 1900s: the rarefied air of the Magic Mountain, as Thomas Mann dubbed it,...
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U.S. Plays Catch-Up with China as Beijing’s Influence in Africa Grows
The Trump administration’s obsession with China is now being extended to Africa, where Beijing is exerting a growing level of influence and causing angst among U.S. lawmakers. The House Intelligence...
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New Ways to Fund the Battle Against Chronic Diseases Are Overdue
“Business as usual will not work any longer regarding NCDs. The global burden and challenge of NCDs is of such a scale and magnitude that it requires thinking out of the box and new partnerships and...
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Investing in Women in Forgotten Conflicts
“In modern wars, it is more dangerous to be a woman than a soldier.” Lester Holt, anchor of NBC Nightly News and Dateline, began the Women for Women International 10th Annual Luncheon by asking, “is...
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Kenya’s Silent Crisis: Africa’s Forgotten Refugees
According to the UNHCR, there have been 483,597 registered refugees and asylum-seekers since February 28, 2018. From that number, 27,825 have been Ethiopians. But the global public—even Kenyan...
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Why the Sahel Must Build Local Economies to Address Regional Security
In the middle of the night a group of Islamist extremists attacked the small town of Banamba, Mali, looting the town bank and freeing prisoners. It was not only money the town lost that November night...
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Burundi and Africa Fall Deeper Under Thrall of Single Leader Rule
It may not have made front page news in much of the Western world, but the precarious democracy of Burundi took another step towards dictatorship this month after a national referendum delivered...
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Kenya’s Latest Scandal Reveals the Bitter Taste of Corruption
The deal had a sweet taste, but the system remains rotten to the core. A multi-million-dollar scandal involving contraband sugar has hit Kenya, amid evidence that smugglers have been colluding with...
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China’s Presence in Africa Comes with a New Edge
A new Silk Road running between China and Africa promises a boost in trade for Beijing. Long focused on commercial activities, the Chinese government is now expanding its remit to bolster military...
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Sahel Women Have the Potential to Solve Food Insecurity in the Region
The Sahel region is facing one of the worst food crises in years, leaving nearly six million people in urgent need of food assistance to survive. In addition to climatic factors such as irregular...
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Rough Sailing for the Addis Ababa Tax Initiative
A little over three years ago, stakeholders converged in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia for the third edition of the Financing for Development conference (FfD), a high-level meeting of heads of states, finance...
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Preparing Young African Women and Girls to Thrive
On October 11th we celebrate International Day of the Girl Child. This year’s theme “With Her: A Skilled GirlForce” could not be more timely or apropos. At 1 billion strong, today’s girls are a...
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Does Top Down Equality Work?
Last month, Ethiopia’s new Prime Minster Abiy Ahmed reshuffled his Cabinet and appointed 50% of these seats to women. In an attempt to implement reforms demanded by the public amid political and...
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OpEd: The Biggest Threat to Democracy No One is Talking About
A tide of corrosive capital has swept the world over the past decade. Public and private money from authoritarian states has been flowing into fragile democracies and emerging markets. Like water...
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Extraordinary Women, Becoming Self-Sufficient Against All Odds
People enduring extreme poverty in conflict zones are portrayed in the news and imprinted on our minds in such a state of despair that it can seem hopeless. Earlier this year I started managing...
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Boko Haram’s Den: Maiduguri, Borno State, Nigeria
Nigeria concluded its 2019 presidential elections on February 23, 2019 between two northern candidates, incumbent President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress (APC), and opposition Atiku...
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Why Europe Should Support Africa in Adapting to Climate Change
Farmers like to say that we owe our entire existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains, but with climate change bringing more frequent droughts, the adage is wearing worryingly...
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Communicating Effectively in Health Crises
To combat epidemics, the local population must be more involved and respected, says Ursula Jasper. This is one of the lessons learned from the Ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014. Health workers in...
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During a Pivotal Moment in African History, the U.S. Needs to Supercharge its...
Africa is rapidly approaching unprecedented economic and demographic heights, demanding the attention of major world economic players. Seeking to find a place for the United States within Africa’s...
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Sudan’s Interregnum: The Fall of Omar Al-Bashir Doesn’t Guarantee Democracy
Last Thursday, Sudan’s National Defense Minister Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf said that Omar al-Bashir, who had ruled Sudan since rising to power in an Islamic coup in 1989, had stepped down and was under house...
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