By Jemimah Njuki , Director of the Women, Gender and Civil Society Department at the African Development Bank (www.AfDB.org) and Ndey Oley Cole, senior program manager. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence campaign is an international campaign led by the United Nations to challenge violence against women and girls. From 25 November – 10
Leaders of the European Union are gathering in Brussels for a summit set to decide on a a proposal to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine’s economic and military needs in the coming years as Kyiv and Moscow exchanged overnight drone attacks. The EU summit on December 18 comes a day after Russian President
At least 762 Sudanese refugees have arrived in Rioriak payam of Rubkona County in South Sudan’s Unity State after fleeing violence in Sudan’s oil-producing Heglig area, local authorities said Wednesday. Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) recently seized Heglig, the country’s largest oil field, amid ongoing fighting with the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) in the
By Robyn Klingler-Vidra Make American shipbuilding great again (Masga) may sound like an effort by the US to bolster its economic strength and project power internationally, but Masga is not an American policy. It is a South Korean initiative that emerged following trade talks with the US in June. Rather than responding to the Trump administration’s tariff
By Shreya Dasgupta Over the past decade, Prickly Pear East, a small, privately owned island in the Caribbean, has become a beacon of hope for a critically endangered lizard. The islet, near the main island of Anguilla, a British territory, is one of just five locations where the lesser Antillean iguana (Iguana delicatissima) is breeding
