With debt increasingly crippling low- and middle-income countries, overhauling the prevailing approach to development has never been more urgent. If poor and developing ...

With months to go before October’s presidential election, multiple opposition leaders have been disqualified under obscure legal provisions. If President Alassane Ouattara is ...

BRICS+ members stand to benefit from pursuing a strategic partnership with Africa. By helping the continent address the energy and debt crises standing ...

Outside actors are increasingly looking to test speculative climate fixes such as solar geoengineering in African countries. But this potentially dangerous course of ...

Reforms of a development-finance system that is structurally misaligned with Africa’s needs can achieve only so much. Rather than lobbying for incremental changes ...

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa’s visit to the White House last month was supposed to reset relations with America. Instead, Ramaphosa and his ...

While sudden, traumatizing, and potentially deadly, donor countries’ sharp cuts in development aid to Africa could be the impetus that the continent needs ...

Africa’s creative industries are expanding rapidly, fueled by digital innovation and a young, growing middle class. By making strategic investments and implementing targeted ...

The global financial system is cumbersome, inefficient, and failing to meet the needs of a world grappling with escalating climate and economic crises. ...

Africa has disproportionately suffered the effects of malaria for far too long. But the continent can eliminate this scourge by 2040 with well-targeted ...