Tag: Global development

Al-Husseina Amadou never forgets the day she was sold. Like her parents, she was born into slavery in southern Niger. ...

Within hours of landing in Bangkok from Nairobi last December to start a job as a customer service agent, Duncan ...

When Deghareg Bekele, an architect in his early 30s, bought an Volkswagen electric car this year, he was a little ...

The new president of Somaliland says his state, which broke away from Somalia in 1991, is on the brink of ...

The head of the global agency tackling Aids says she expects HIV rates to soar and deaths to multiply in ...

It took a single video complaining about Lesotho’s unemployment rate to turn Tšolo Thakeli into the prime minister’s enemy. Within ...

One of Africa’s largest protected areas has been shaken by a series of attacks by Islamic State-linked extremists, which have ...

It is sad when a ruthless military dictator funds his government by destroying ecologically important rainforest, logging tropical trees and ...

World leaders should be ashamed of their neglect of people whose lives were “hanging by a thread” at a time ...

Among the many shocks currently facing the international development community is the new direction of the US administration on climate, ...

Researchers have found “troubling” evidence for the first time that a lifesaving malaria drug is becoming less effective in young ...

Refugees and aid agencies have warned of deteriorating conditions in overcrowded and severely underfunded camps in Chad, as intensifying violence ...

Millions of teenagers in Africa are suffering from asthma with no formal diagnosis as the continent undergoes rapid urbanisation, researchers ...

The global rise of populism and “strongmen” has led to an increase in authoritarianism in Africa that is holding back ...

The EU will be unable to claw back any of the €150m (£125m) paid to Tunisia despite the money being ...