Plastics, Power, and Politics: The High-Stakes Fight for a Global Treaty
Civil Society, Climate Change, Economy & Trade, Environment, Global, Headlines, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
Local people from Watamu, Kenya, work with Local...
Inaugural SSA MMA Smarties’ winners announced, the TFG named Brand of...
The inaugural sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) MMA Smarties' winners have been announced with The Foschini Group (TFG) named Brand of the Year and Penquin named...
UN: Deploy New Haiti Mission to Restore Security
(New York, December 9, 2024) – The United Nations Security Council should urgently authorize and rapidly deploy a full-fledged United Nations mission to Haiti, Human...
What to stream: Paris and Nicole reunite, Romano and Kudrow team...
Angelina Jolie portraying opera singer Maria Callas in the movie “Maria” and a Jamie Foxx Netflix comedy special are some of the new television,...
Morocco produces Africa’s first mpox tests as the continent tries to...
TAMESNA, Morocco -- After African countries struggled to get testing kits during the COVID-19 pandemic, officials vowed to make the continent less dependent on...
First 12-team CFP set: Oregon seeded No. 1, SMU edges Alabama...
The new, 12-team College Football Playoff brings with it a promise to be bigger, more exciting, more lucrative.Perfect or 100% fair? Well, nobody ever...
How farming is transforming lives for South Africa’s deaf population
At the Westonaria agricultural park near Bekkersdal, east of Johannesburg, farm workers are busy tilling the soil and planting tomatoes and lettuce. Despite the...
Marrakech festival spotlights tensions animating Morocco’s movie industry
MARRAKECH, Morocco -- After the movie “Cabo Negro” screened at the Marrakech International Film Festival this week, organizers anticipating backlash whisked its crew away...
Insurgents advance in Syria: Army Withdraws, Assad Denies Fleeing
Insurgents' stunning march across Syria gained speed on Saturday with news that they had reached the suburbs of the capital and with the government...
Feminist literature under fire: The ‘Cometierra’ controversy in Argentina
Collage with the cover of the novel “Cometierra,” by Dolores Reyes. Image created with Canva by Global Voices.At the beginning of November, Argentine feminist...
‘Dirty and Dumb!’ Trump May Cancel Contracts to Electrify USPS Fleet
As part of President-elect Donald Trump's mission to roll back the Biden administration's climate policies, the Republican may cancel contracts to electrify the U.S....
Trump offers a public show of support for Pete Hegseth, his...
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump offered a public show of support Friday for Pete Hegseth, his choice to lead the Defense Department, whose confirmation by...
Zambia: Civil Society Fighting New Legislative Threats and Restrictive NGO Bills
Active Citizens, Africa, Civil Society, Crime & Justice, Development & Aid, Headlines, Human Rights, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
Credit: Alex Berger in North Western ZambiaLUSAKA,...
Nonprofit Completes Historic ‘Neighbors Serving Neighbors’ Clean Water Project
Diarrheal disease is preventable and yet it remains...
African Union, Nations Lay Bare Climate Vulnerabilities at UN’s Top Court
Caribbean Climate Wire, Climate Change, Climate Change Justice, Editors' Choice, Featured, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, International Justice, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Climate...
Blue Ribbon Sponsors Re.Bag.Re.Use
Blue Ribbon has announced its sponsorship of Re.Bag.Re.Use, a community project that transforms empty bread bags into crocheted, multifunctional items. What began in Hout...
Senior Government Biometrics Executive Joins FaceTec Team
John joins an exceptionally talented FaceTec team. He...
China’s ban on key high-tech materials could have broad impact on...
BANGKOK -- China has banned exports of key materials used to make a wide range of products, including smartphones, electric vehicles, radar systems and...
UNCCD COP16 Raises Hopes for Ambitious Global Land Action
Combating Desertification and Drought, Conferences, Conservation, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Food and Agriculture, Gender, Global, Headlines, Humanitarian Emergencies, Migration & Refugees,...
How to fight Russian sabotage: With ‘psyops’ and undersea drones.
Western intelligence specialists have been sounding the alarm for months about Russian sabotage in Europe. In past days, however, Moscow’s suspected campaigns to do everything...
Climate Finance Not Charity, But Obligation, International Court of Justice hears
Asia-Pacific, Climate Change, Climate Change Justice, Environment, Featured, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Least Developed Countries, Middle East & North Africa, Pacific Community...
‘Bonfire of the incumbents’ unseats governments worldwide in 2024
It will be cold comfort for Kamala Harris. But her loss in the U.S. presidential election in November is typical of a major mood...
Meet the Banks and Investors Funding the LNG ‘Carbon Bomb’
Liquefied natural gas developers have expansion plans that could release 10 additional metric gigatons of climate pollution by 2030, and major banks and investors...
In Malawi, sex and mental health can be taboo topics. Not...
The weekly radio show “Spot On: Kalikonse Tikadziwe” takes on topics that are taboo in the village of Undi and throughout Malawian society. Today’s...
Heightened Insecurity in Sudan Threatens Nationwide Collapse
Africa, Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Education, Gender Violence, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Migration & Refugees, TerraViva United Nations
Two women and a child...
Money market trading underway on Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX)
As excitement builds ahead of the launch of the Ethiopian Securities Exchange (ESX), banks are already actively trading on its online Interbank Money Market...
Japan’s famous sake joins UNESCO’s cultural heritage list, a boost to...
LUQUE, Paraguay -- Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It's brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savored in the country’s pub-like izakayas,...
Conservation Agriculture Transforming Farming in Southern Africa
Africa, Climate Action, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Food and Agriculture, Headlines, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations | Analysis Food and Agriculture ...
New Approaches Urgently Needed to Tackle Resurgent Social Crises
Climate Change, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Environment, Financial Crisis, Food and Agriculture, Food Security and Nutrition, Global, Headlines, Health, Inequality, TerraViva United...
Final Montana legislative race called for Democrat following recount
After a recount in House District 57 was finalized earlier this week, Democrat Scott Rosenzweig maintained his lead over incumbent Rep. Marty Malone, R-Pray,...
North Carolina Town Sues Utility Giant Over ‘Decades of Deception’ on...
The town of Carrboro, North Carolina filed a lawsuit Wednesday accusing the utility company Duke Energy of carrying out a "knowing deception campaign concerning...
After Gaps in UN Agreement, National Laws Must Step Up To...
Environment, Global, Headlines Opinion
The international carbon markets need recognition of community rights to be integrated in the national and international supporting regulations and guidance....
The end of an Eras tour approaches, marking a bittersweet moment...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- After more than 150 shows across five continents over nearly two years, the global phenomenon that is Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour...
Where Nazis first won office, Germans are voting for right-wing extremists
Just down a thickly forested road from the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial here in the historic city of Weimar, a young mother wrangling her...
New UN aid chief vows ‘ruthlessness’ to prioritize spending as funding...
GENEVA -- The new head of the U.N. humanitarian aid agency says it will be “ruthless” when prioritizing how to spend money, a nod...
Ladles of Love Launches ‘Feed the Future’ Campaign
NPO Ladles of Love has launched its biggest annual campaign yet, titled 'Feed the Future' and South Africa is invited to get on board....
Nigeria’s new listing tops trading volumes as shares soar
Housing and hospitality group Haldane McCall plc sees its listing on the Main Board of the Nigerian Exchange Limited as the route to raise...
VML South Africa Brings Home Regional TikTok Ad Awards
VML South Africa has announced that it brought home awards in three categories at the inaugural regional TikTok Ad Awards for the Middle East,...
TikTok Ad Awards Announces 2024 South African Winners
The inaugural TikTok Ad Awards 2024 ceremony has taken place in Dubai, at Upside. The event has celebrated standout brands and agencies across the...
To end AIDS, communities mobilize to engage men and boys
Michael Onyango rises before dawn in his Nairobi apartment and catches a train eight hours east to Kilifi, a coastal town north of Mombasa....
How an App Transformed Farming for Rural Tanzanian Women
Active Citizens, Africa, Artificial Intelligence, Civil Society, Development & Aid, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Food and Agriculture, Green Economy, Headlines, Sustainability, Sustainable Development Goals,...
Henkel SA Hosts Inaugural Sustainability Indaba
Henkel South Africa has hosted its inaugural Sustainability Indaba, highlighting that the commitment to a sustainable future has never been stronger. This event brought...
‘Quilombola Communities Live in Fear Because the Laws That Are Supposed...
Civil Society, Education, Featured, Headlines, Health, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Latin America & the Caribbean, TerraViva United Nations
Dec 4 2024 (IPS) -...
Sean Penn accuses Academy Awards of cowardice at Marrakech Film Festival
MARRAKECH, Morocco -- Sean Penn on Tuesday blasted the organizers of the Oscars for being cowards who, in effect, limit the kinds of films...
Magna Carta Takes Top Honours at AdFocus Awards 2024
Magna Carta, a leading reputation management consultancy, took home the overall award for PR Agency of the Year on Monday, 2 December at the...
Absa Renews Sponsorship of the Absa RUN YOUR CITY SERIES
Absa has renewed its commitment as title sponsor of the Absa RUN YOUR CITY SERIES, a partnership that began in 2021 during the Covid-19...
Aquafresh Launches Mobile Libraries Programme
Aquafresh has announced that it is donating compact, libraries to schools across Johannesburg. Aquafresh says that it has partnered with a few schools to...
Focus on Africa: IPBES Plenary Session Makes Inaugural Visit to Biodiverse...
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Springbok in Sossusvlei, Namibia. IPBES 11...
South Africa’s G20 Presidency in 2025: A Pivotal Moment for the...
Africa, Development & Aid, Economy & Trade, Headlines, Population, Poverty & SDGs, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
Audiovisual/G20
Lutfiyya Dean (center), head of the South African delegation...
Ugandan Disability Rights Mental Health Advocate Honored
(New York) – Benon Kabale, a Ugandan disability rights advocate, is the 2024 recipient of the Human Rights Watch Marca Bristo Fellowship for Courageous Leadership...
UNAIDS appoints artist Funke Akindele as National Goodwill Ambassador for Nigeria
ABUJA, NIGERIA, 3 December 2024 — The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) is pleased to announce the appointment of Funke Akindele, a...
‘The People Always Pay’: Report Details How LNG Tax Breaks Harm...
How do local communities lose out when governments invest in fossil fuel facilities instead of community needs? That's the question at the heart of...
Small Island States Urge International Court to Look Beyond Climate Treaties
Caribbean Climate Wire, Climate Change, Climate Change Finance, Climate Change Justice, Editors' Choice, Environment, Featured, Global, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, International Justice, Least...
What Does The Ceasefire in Lebanon Entail For Gaza?
Armed Conflicts, Crime & Justice, Headlines, Human Rights, Humanitarian Emergencies, Middle East & North Africa, Migration & Refugees, TerraViva United Nations
A group of...
‘Monumental Victory for the Ocean’: Norway Halts Plans for Deep-Sea Mining
Environmental organizations cheered as Norway's controversial plans to move forward with deep-sea mining in the vulnerable Arctic Ocean were iced on Sunday.
The pause was...
Giving the Ocean a Fighting Chance Through the Great Blue Wall
Biodiversity, Climate Action, Climate Change, Economy & Trade, Environment, Global, Green Economy, Headlines, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
Credit: Great Blue WallVICTORIA, Seychelles,...
Resilience amid crisis: strengthening the HIV response for displaced communities in...
Ethiopia faces a triple crisis of conflict, climate change, and displacement that impedes the capacity to provide essential health and other humanitarian assistance to...
Confronting the Global Crisis of Land Degradation
Civil Society, Climate Action, Climate Change, Editors' Choice, Environment, Global, Headlines, Humanitarian Emergencies, Sustainable Development Goals, TerraViva United Nations Opinion
The 16th session of the...
Who are the Ultimate Winners in the World’s Ongoing Military Conflicts?
Armed Conflicts, Featured, Global, Global Governance, Headlines, Human Rights, IPS UN: Inside the Glasshouse, TerraViva United Nations
Credit: US National ArchivesUNITED NATIONS, Dec 2...
Global celebrities unite behind UNAIDS’ call for world leaders to “take...
GENEVA, 1 December 2024 — This World AIDS Day (1 December), sixteen global celebrities, including Hollywood film star Luke Evans and singer-songwriter Sia of...
Academy Award-winning actress and philanthropist Charlize Theron hands over her Instagram...
GENEVA, 28 November 2024 — A 21-year-old South African HIV activist, Ibanomonde Ngema, will take over the global Instagram account of Academy Award-winner and...
Embracing the feral in Kingston, Jamaica’s concrete jungle
‘A Feral Commons’ is a Global Co-Commission public art project spearheaded by the Global Cultural Districts Network (GCDN) and led by Dubai-based Alserkal Advisory....
The Biggest Delegation at Plastic Treaty Talks? Plastic Industry Lobbyists
At the fifth and final session of the United Nations Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee to finalize a global plastics treaty in Busan, South Korea, one...
The COP29 is over, and so is the spotlight on Azerbaijan
Image by Arzu Geybullayeva.The 29th session of the United Nation's flagship climate summit, also known as COP (Conference of Parties), just wrapped up in...
Drought in Somalia is forcing thousands of climate refugees to Kenya’s...
A screenshot of an old woman at the Dadaab Refugee Camp from the documentary Radio Dadaab by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), used with...
UNAIDS report shows that upholding human rights is vital for ending...
GENEVA, 26 November 2024— Ahead of World AIDS Day (1 December), a new report by UNAIDS shows that the world can meet the agreed...
Critics Call COP29 Climate Finance Draft ‘Slap in the Face’ by...
With the United Nations' annual climate summit scheduled to end Friday in Baku, Azerbaijan, green groups denounced the latest
draft finance deal, which would...
Nearly 300 Green Groups Urge Biden to Block LNG Expansion Ahead...
As the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Baku, Azerbaijan draws to a close and the second presidency of Donald Trump approaches, nearly 300...
Climate emergency risks worsening AIDS epidemic, UN warns at COP29
Countries facing “triple funding crisis” of insufficient climate finance, insufficient HIV funding, and crippling debtGENEVA/BAKU, 21 November 2024—The climate crisis could disrupt HIV services...
Country Profile : DRC Water
The DRC is the most water-rich country in Africa. It accounts for approximately 52 percent of Africa's surface water reserves and 23 percent of...
Mobilizing finance to build climate-resilient, sustainable African cities
In Africa, the current population of around 1.1 billion will double by 2050 and more than 80% of that increase will occur in cities....
Interview with Seth M. Siegel – Prominent Water Expert
Question ADM: Why Water?
Answer Seth: I got involved with water policy issues for two reasons: First, there aren't enough people talking about water, whether...
Water Realities
In the Agrifrica Digital Magazine we covered the realities of Water from various countries. Hereunder the snapshot of a few Countries Challenges & Solutions,...