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African journalists reporting climate change issues and the transition to renewable energy must first understand their continent and its energy goals to be able to offer balanced reporting of the continent’s climate change and energy issues. This call was made by Verner Ayukegba, senior vice president at the African Energy…

Twenty years after it was established by the NEPAD Heads of State Summit on March 9, 2003, the African Peer Review Mechanism (APRM), Africa’s governance self-monitoring mechanism willingly acceded to by AU member states, is set to commemorate its main 20th anniversary, from 10 to 14 December 2023 in Johannesburg,…

The German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS), a leading global think-tank for sustainable development, has called for increased climate financing to help developing countries affected by climate change meet up with their financing requirements to mitigate the impacts of climate change.     This call was made during the…

Prof. Gibril Faal, the Gambian multi-disciplinary business and development executive cum visiting professor in practice at the London School of Economics (LSE), has blamed the lump-of-labor fallacy for the fear and discrimination of African labor migrants in Africa.   The ‘lump of labor’ fallacy is the idea that there is…

The third edition of the African Union Economic, Social and Cultural Council’s (ECOSOCC) five-part expert webinar series on the AU Free Movement Protocol (AU-FMP) has highlighted the significance of the social protection of labor migrants as well as their skills development.     The webinar series is organized by ECOSOCC…

Ahead of the September 21 United Nations Ministerial Meeting for the Summit of the Future (SOTF), a group of prominent former government and UN leaders are calling on current world leaders to build on the outcomes from this year’s SDG Summit and utilize the 2024 UN SOTF to strengthen the…

The Surge Africa Organisation has launched its report titled Assessing Conflict and Fragility Risk in Nigeria, which provides foundational insights and analysis into the nexus of climate change and conflicts in Nigeria, expanding on the climate crisis and its associated risks to human security in Nigeria and the Sahel Region. …

The African Minerals Development Center (AMDC), in collaboration with the African Development Bank (AfDB) and Open Society Foundation (OSF), is set to host a high-level dialogue on Africa’s Green Minerals Strategy (AGMS) Tuesday on the sidelines of the inaugural Africa Climate Summit (ACS2023), to be held September 4–6 in Nairobi, Kenya.…

The secretariat of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), in collaboration with the Government of Zambia, is set to host the inaugural edition of the AfCFTA Youth Symposium come August 21–23 in Lusaka, Zambia, to discuss the potential benefits and challenges of AfCFTA for youth in trade and explore…

As part of its broader policy advocacy program, Surge Africa, a nonprofit that works at the intersection of policy, media and resilience building, recently hosted a stakeholders’ dialogue on adaptation and conservation policies in Kano state, northwestern Nigeria, attended by stakeholders from government and non–state actors.   In a press…