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World AIDS Day 2024: Tackling HIV in South Africa’s Young Population
1st December 2023 Through comprehensive sexuality education, combined with the significant achievements in vaccinating over 80% of Grade 5 girls against the Human... →
Historic Mobilisation: Faith Leaders Pledge to Combat Gender Violence and Femicide
1st December 2023 As South Africa commemorates 25 years since initiating the 16 Days of Activism for No Violence against Women and Children campaign, a renewed... →
Pilot Zambian debt relief collapses
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 1st December 2023 Zambia’s imploding deals for debt relief from its many creditors have plunged the country’s fragile economic recovery into uncertainty. It also... →
Safeguarding election management bodies in the age of democratic recession
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 1st December 2023 The history of democracy has been one of progress as the spread of civil liberties and political rights have increased across the globe. There is... →
Green growth and jobs
By: Terence Creamer 1st December 2023 Transitioning South Africa’s energy ecosystem from its current over-reliance on coal to one progressively based on the country’s natural advantages... →
Climate action for Africa in 2023: three big developments
30th November 2023 2023 is highly likely to be the hottest year ever recorded. And climate change is to blame for one-quarter of the global population being exposed... →
Low emissions and economic survival – countries in the global south aren’t getting a fair deal
30th November 2023 In 2015, more than 140 countries signed up to the goal of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. For countries in the global south this is a huge... →
Nigeria’s foreign minister has his work cut out
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 30th November 2023 Nigeria’s new Minister of Foreign Affairs Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar is leading the country’s foreign relations in the face of significant... →
SAIIA’s View on COP28: African Priorities
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 30th November 2023 While Africa has long called for increased scale and accessibility of climate finance, these calls are now positioned within a broader effort for... →
Fact checked: Five claims from Kenyan president’s 2023 state of the nation address
By: Africa Check 30th November 2023 On 9 November 2023, Kenyan president William Ruto delivered his state of the nation address in parliament. Seeking to show progress amid a gloomy... →
