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  • OP-ED | The Agricultural Fixes Africa Needs, By Esther Ngumbi

    Opinion September 7, 2025
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    Although global hunger declined last year, undernourishment rose in Africa—a trend policymakers can reverse by boosting agricultural productivity through soil restoration, innovation, and human capital investment. According to The State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World 2025, a report recently released by the five leading United Nations agencies working…

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  • OP-ED | Why 2nd Africa Climate Summit is a Defining Moment, By Fitsum Assefa Adela

    Opinion September 6, 2025
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    The Second Africa Climate Summit (ACS2) offers Africa a defining moment—to shift from vulnerability to leadership, from pledges to practical solutions, and from fragmented efforts to a unified continental voice in shaping global climate action. Fitsum Assefa Adela, Minister of Planning and Development of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia…

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  • OP-ED | The Key to Africa’s Economic Integration, By Gwen Mwaba

    Opinion August 31, 2025
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    Africa’s economic integration depends on stronger, more effective trade finance systems to help SMEs overcome cross-border risks and compete regionally. There is no silver bullet for expanding trade and commerce in Africa – or anywhere else, for that matter. But we can say with certainty that trade finance forms the…

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  • OP-ED | UN@80: A Crucial Opportunity for Renewal, By Michelle Ndiaye & Desire Assogbavi

    Opinion August 30, 2025
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    As the United Nations (UN) marks its 80th anniversary, the world faces a defining choice: renew the institution for today’s challenges or risk its slide into irrelevance. UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres As the UN marks its 80th anniversary, the world stands at a critical crossroads. For eight decades, the UN…

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  • OP-ED | Overcoming Obstacles to UN Reform, By Nilima Gulrajani & John Hendra

    Opinion August 24, 2025
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    The UN’s reliance on voluntary government funding underscores the need for global consensus on what kind of UN the world requires to secure more sustainable financing. UN Secretary-General Antonio Gutterres At the 80th United Nations General Assembly this September, participants will have to confront the escalating development finance crisis that…

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  • OP-ED | Breaking Africa’s Cycle of Dependency, By Moky Makura

    Opinion August 23, 2025
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    Donor aid cuts to Africa, though sudden and painful, could serve as a wake-up call—pushing the continent to break dependency cycles and embrace self-driven dynamism. With richer countries pulling back on aid, African countries are being forced to rethink their economic future. The move has rightfully alarmed many – especially…

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  • OP-ED | Fair Climate Finance Requires Debt Reform, By Mohamed Adow

    Opinion August 15, 2025
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    Reforming the global financial architecture is vital to finance climate action, particularly for debt-distressed countries and Africa must take the lead in advocating for change. When delegates from around the world convened in Bonn, Germany, last month for the 62nd session of the United Nations Climate Change Subsidiary Bodies (SB62), the…

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  • OP-ED | Centuries of Bad Choices Deny African Women Clean Cooking Solutions, By Mohamed Adow

    Opinion August 9, 2025
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    Over 800,000 women and girls die prematurely each year from exposure to polluting fuels like wood and charcoal—yet carbon market companies seek to exploit this tragedy to bolster their offset schemes. Mohamed Adow, Director of Power Shift Africa One of the greatest injustices of our time is unfolding quietly in…

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  • OP-ED | The Scramble for Africa’s Critical Minerals, By Rabah Arezki & Rick van der Ploeg

    Opinion August 3, 2025
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    Vast natural-resource endowments have proven to be more of a curse than a blessing, with resource-rich African countries often developing more slowly than their resource-poor developed counterparts. The world’s superpowers have developed a seemingly insatiable appetite for the critical minerals that are essential to the ongoing energy and digital transitions,…

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  • OP-ED | Why Africa-Caribbean Partnership Must be Deepened amid Global Trade Disruptions, By Pamela Coke-Hamilton & Benedict Oramah

    Opinion July 27, 2025
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    The Africa-Caribbean partnership is more than just a response to global uncertainty; it offers a model for inclusive and resilient South-South trade amid global uncertainty. Benedict Oramah, President and Chairman, Afreximbank (Left) and Pamela Coke-Hamilton, the Executive Director of the International Trade Centre (Right) The share of bilateral exports between…

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