Nigeria has Africa’s highest malaria death rate – progress is being made, but it’s not enough: Lagos residents use art to draw attention to the gaps in the prevention and treatment of malaria. Pius Utomi Ekpei/AFP via Getty Images Malaria is a major public health problem and can be life-threatening. The disease, mostly found in …
The war on Tigray wiped out decades of environmental progress: how to start again: Farmland razed by Eritrean soldiers at a village in Ahferom district, Central zone, Tigray. Abrha Brhan Gebre/with permission The Tigray region, in northern Ethiopia, used to be a model for land restoration in Africa. It won multiple awards and recognition. It …
COVID testing led to new techniques of disease diagnosis: progress mustn’t stop now: Covid-19 exposed critical shortcomings of existing diagnostic techniques Michael Tewelde/Xinhua via Getty Images In March 2020, weeks before the World Health Organization (WHO) declared COVID-19 a pandemic, its director-general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus delivered a speech in which he emphasised the importance of …
Inequality in access to basic services is a major problem in sub-Saharan Africa – but progress is being made: Where people live can determine their station in life. Wendy Stone/Corbis via Getty Images Economic activity and development are unevenly distributed across regions of the world and within any country. In other words, where someone lives …
Andrew Tate: research has long shown how feminist progress is always followed by a misogynistic backlash: Nowik Sylwia | Shutterstock Andrew Tate is a man who has made a living out of controversy. The extensive media coverage garnered since his arrest in Romania on suspicion of rape, human trafficking and organised crime has largely called …
Decade of progress on making England’s homes safer threatened by austerity and the pandemic: Investing in housing should be just as important in public health messaging as exercise and having your five a day. I Wei Huang | Shutterstock In her ruling on the death of two-year old Awaab Ishak in Rochdale in 2020, senior …
World Cup: Fifa needs Qatar 2022 to leave a legacy of progress against corruption: The men’s 2022 Fifa World Cup has ended, with Argentina crowned champions. But at this tournament in particular, there has been much to distract from the actual football being played. From start to finish, Qatar 2022 has been controversial. Naming the …
COP27 key outcomes: progress on compensation for developing countries, but more needed on climate justice and equity: Climate activists held demonstrations in front of International Convention Center to protest the negative effects of climate change. Photo by Mohamed Abdel Hamid/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images There were high expectations for COP27, the 27th Conference of the …
Serbia banning EuroPride 2022 shows hard-won progress for LGBTQ+ rights is under threat: Four days before the streets of Belgrade were to host EuroPride 2022, LGBTQ+ activists were handed a letter from Serbia’s interior ministry informing them that the proposed route for the Pride march had been rejected and telling them to submit a revised …
Beyond GDP: changing how we measure progress is key to tackling a world in crisis – three leading experts: It’s an odd quirk of history that, on the first day of his ill-fated presidential campaign in March 1968, Robert F Kennedy chose to talk to his audience about the limitations of gross domestic product* (GDP) …
Integrated education in Northern Ireland: why progress is slow despite support: Support in Northern Ireland for integrated education – schools attended by both Protestant and Catholic children – is high. There are many factors behind this, including the view that separate schools perpetuate divisions and are an anachronism in an increasingly secularised society. There also …
Kenya’s election: institutional safeguards are still a work in progress: GettyImages Kenya has held its seventh national election since the reintroduction of multiparty competition in the early 1990s. Elections in the country are never dull affairs. They are always contested by ever-shifting and unstable political alliances that employ vibrant campaigns to sway both core and …
Basic water services in South Africa are in decay after years of progress: The quality of water services and infrastructure in South Africa has been on a downward trend. shutterstock Water is at the heart of health and well-being for people and nature. Access to it is a human rights issue recognised by international treaties …
Lesotho due to hold elections despite lack of progress on key political reforms: A woman votes in Lesotho's 2017 national election. New elections are due in October. Gianluigi Guercia/AFP via Gettty Images Lesotho is due to hold national elections in mid-October. The polls were expected to be held under a new constitutional regime resulting from …
Pan-African integration has made progress but needs a change of mindset: UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres addresses an African Union summit in Addis Ababa via video in February 2022. Tony Karumba/AFP via Getty Images This year’s celebration of Africa Day provides another opportunity to assess how far continental integration has progressed. Integration would mean a …
Making the case for openness as the engine of human progress: Making the case for openness as the engine of human progress Brook Manville Thu, 03/24/2022 – 03:00 Up 1 reader likes this Opensource.com readers might feel tempted to shrug off Johan Norberg’s recent book, Open: The Story of Human Progress, as just one more …
Open exchange, open doors, open minds: A recipe for global progress: Could open organization principles successfully apply to entire societies? That’s the question I asked as I read the book Open: The Story of Human Progress by Johan Norberg, which aims to examine the relative success of “open societies” throughout global history. read more: Opensource.com …
A cool South African City image: British Library digitised image from page 769 of “Travels and adventures in Southern Africa … comprising a view of the present state of the Cape Colony, with observations on the progress and prospects of British emigrants. Second edition” Image by The British Library Image taken from: Title: "Travels and …