OPINION
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Bridging the Nutritional Gap: A call to action for burn victims in Ethiopia
More than 75 percent of severely burned patients lose up to a quarter of their pre-admission weight and end up malnourished. Burns are a ... -
The continent falling behind: Africa’s placement in the Global Feminist Foreign Policy Discourse
Why has the Afro-feminist movement remained conspicuously absent in global discussions on Feminist Foreign Policy? In July 2024, the world convened for the third ... -
DR Congo quagmire poses an existential question to Southern Africa’s leaders
Engineering a permanent state of conflict in eastern Congo ensures the continued flow of minerals into the bloodstream of global capitalism. SADC must protect ... -
The Basket of HIV Prevention Options Needs to Be Filled
The end of the HIV pandemic is in sight thanks to radical new innovations and treatments. We stand at a thrilling precipice in the ... -
Debt and the Gen Z protests: The moral economy of the African crowd
A generation after the 1980s debt crisis triggered the rebirth of democracy on the continent, will Kenya’s youthful idealists spark a pan-African revolt? The ... -
Sudan: The violence is a symptom of a profound collective failure
The ongoing conflict is an existential threat to the very idea of Sudan, not to be solved by negotiations featuring the usual suspects working ... -
Malaria is a women’s rights issue
When malaria rages, the women whose labour, visible and invisible, is the bedrock of the care economy, suffer; the effects reverberate across society. Walk ... -
Africa in the global village: Notes on some epochal trends
Hidden in plain sight, Africans are in the thick of the kind of history-making that will define the 21st century. In 2024, Africa presents ... -
Senegal’s democracy is in peril
The looming danger of democratic collapse is a challenge to friends of Senegal and democracy to do better. The sudden actions by Senegal’s president ... -
Why countries must ratify the African Disability Protocol
On the anniversary of the Universal Human Rights Declaration, governments must take the final step to adopt a new groundbreaking and uniquely African disability ...
