Identity Trade-Offs Define Today’s Globalised Citizens
Consistently over the past few months, there have been a slew of Western media articles on what Al Jazeera calls an instance of ‘reverse migration’. Many people who used to [...]
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Support for HIV Patients In South Africa Dwindling Down. What’s The Next Step, PEPFAR?
In many sub-Saharan African especially countries (DR Congo, South Africa, Sierra Leone, Liberia & Mali) a considerable proportion of the population faces problems of financial access to essential health care [...]
Uganda’s Quest for Peace and Joseph Kony
Is peace between individuals and societies possible, or is conflict simply a part of human nature? Does it differ from culture to culture, religion to religion, nation to nation? All [...]
The Fight Against Malaria on the African Continent
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), malaria caused an estimated 655,000 deaths (with an uncertainty range of 537,000 to 907,000), mostly among African children in 2010. WHO’s World Malaria [...]
Ghana Leads Africa’s Fastest Growing Countries & Economies
According to the World Economic Forum; Africa is on the brink of a major transformation. Over the last decade, the continent was home to six of the world’s 10 fastest [...]
African Diaspora: Myths and Home-truths
This article was originally drafted by the SA Node of the Millennium Project for the newsletter “Southern Africa Horizon Scan” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content [...]
The Greater WE: Military Interventions in a Globalized World
Global governance and the movement toward a Greater WE means a protection of global public goods, supranational structures and the harmonization of laws and procedures regarding human rights, trade and [...]
Foresight: Three Scenarios Regarding the Monetary Union
This article was originally drafted by the Society for International Development for the newsletter “GHEA Outlook” as part of the Rockefeller Foundation’s Searchlight Process. For more Searchlight content on futurechallenges.org, please click [...]
Diagnosing the Problems of Education in Africa
The educational system in Africa used to be the envy of the western world, but what has changed? Why is education so expensive these days when it should be free? [...]
Land Grabs and Deforestation in South Sudan
According to a report issued by the Oakland Institute, hedge fund land grabs in Africa are a contributing factor to “food insecurity, the displacement of small farmers, conflict, environmental devastation, [...]
Record Gold Prices Spur More Illegal Mining
The practice of illegal mining is ages-old and in resource-rich Africa as constant as the harshness of the rising sun. Governments have battled with this informal sector for decades with [...]
How the UN and Member States Must Do More to End Natural Resource Fuelled Conflicts
Drawing on Global Witness’ experience in Angola, Cambodia, DRC, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Sudan, this report aims to promote understanding of, and a strategy for dealing with, the problem of [...]
