For millions of people worldwide, access to essential medicines and healthcare can make the between life and death, and between a life constrained by illness or one filled with possibility. When ...

From Lagos to London to Los Angeles, a new style is taking dance clubs and music charts by storm. Chances are, you’re already familiar with the sound, even if you haven’t heard the name. Afrobeats, a ...

COVID-19 has exposed fault lines in both rich and poor countries. From failing public healthcare systems to racial inequality, the pandemic has laid bare unjust and inequitable structures that are ...

In moments of crisis, the stories we tell matter. The right story has the power to shape a movement, disrupt a crisis, provide comfort, community, inspiration. The wrong story can fuel chaos, thwart ...

When women and girls have the tools and opportunities they need to succeed, it’s a win for everyone, everywhere. Despite the world continuing to make progress towards gender equality, that progress is ...

Rich countries spent US$2.7 trillion on domestic fossil fuel subsidies between 2010 and 2022, six times more than the US$437 billion they committed to provide for international climate finance over ...

A 90-day pause to US foreign assistance and subsequent changes to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) have created chaos and jeopardized the health and safety of millions of ...

The Global Fund is an organization designed to end AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria as epidemics. Since its creation in 2002, the Global Fund has helped save 44 million lives and halved the combined ...

The world is not on track to meet its goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030. In fact, global progress to reduce extreme poverty “has grinded to a halt” over the past few years. We‘re in the middle of ...

As children across Africa return to school this week, they might find a very different landscape to the one they left behind before the pandemic. Classroom sizes in some schools will be smaller due to ...

Many African countries depend entirely on agriculture for economic growth — but many people have nothing to eat. As we commemorate the Africa Day of Food and Nutrition Security, we bring to light ...