Africa

The Corporate Colonization of Global Health The post WHO Decides Africa’s Health? Learning from the Covid-19 Disaster first appeared on African Arguments.

The COP27 climate summit on African soil will be the continent’s chance to put the needs of vulnerable nations above the interests of rich countries. Nowhere experiences the bitter injustice of climate change like Africa. Despite contributing almost none of the greenhouse gasses that drive the climate crisis, we suffer its most brutal consequences – from the drought gripping the East to the shrinking Lake Chad in the West, from the floods that have devastated South Sudan to the Mozambican communities still not recovered from Cyclone Idai two years on. The recent international climate summit, COP26, made some progress. But The post 2022 is Africa’s year to lead the world on climate change first appeared on African Arguments.

Three reasons that African governments must do more, better and faster, to ensure people have access to financial services. Tchala Dahana is a 41-year-old mother of three living in northern Togo. Her main source of income comes from selling tomatoes at her local market. She embodies the informal economy, prevalent across most of Africa. While she can make ends meet, Dahana has little left to put towards her children’s education, to make needed improvements to the family home, or to travel around the country. She does not have a bank account, nor can she access basic financial services. This means The post Why Africa needs to make financial inclusion its 2022 priority first appeared on African Arguments.

While rightly lauded for its elections, the self-declared states’ lack of female representation points to a deep problem in its democratic health. Over 30 years since declaring independence from Somalia in 1991, the Republic of Somaliland has established itself as a paragon of stability in a tough neighbourhood. Although it remains internationally unrecognised, it is inevitably compared favourably to Somalia, not least in its efforts to establish a homegrown democratic tradition. Though not always smoothly, Somaliland has held eight functional elections and one constitutional referendum since 2001. The republic’s latest poll – the combined parliamentary and local council elections on The post How did Somaliland end up with zero female MPs? first appeared on African Arguments.

Why Hamdok's exit could be a new lifeline for the pro-democracy movement. The post "This Is Not a Coup”: Hamdok’s Resignation first appeared on African Arguments.