Nigeria’s Hunger Crisis: A Security Priority or a Forgotten Emergency?
Nigeria is facing one of its most serious hunger and malnutrition crises in years, raising difficult questions about where political…
Category: West Africa
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Côte d’Ivoire, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Togo
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Africa’s 1.5 Billion Dollar Art Market
Africa’s Street Revival: How art, sound, and youth culture are rising in plain sight “Africa is Rising.” What does this…
Liberia’s Rice Crisis Exposes a Dangerous Dependency: Where Is the Plan B?
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The Ghana XI the World Never Saw
Walk through any stadium tunnel in Europe and you will hear Ghana before you see it. A bit of Twi…
Why is Ghana paying MORE for LESS power?
Across the country people are asking the same question in their homes, shops, schools and hospitals. Bills keep rising, yet…
The Most Beautiful Water You’ve Never Seen, and How It Feeds Africa
Across Africa, some of the most striking water sources sit far from tourist routes. They appear in salt pans, forest…
Ghana’s food inflation drops. So why are market prices still high?
Food inflation in Ghana now stands at about 18.4 percent year-on-year, the lowest since early 2022. On paper it looks…
As AI reshapes jobs, farming still anchors Africa’s future
Nearly two out of three jobs in Africa are in farming and food. Yet agriculture makes up only a quarter…
When the Nearest Market Is Half a Day Away, What Does ‘Access to Food’ Even Mean?
Under the morning sun, a woman bends over a pile of millet, beating the stalks to free the grain. Scenes…
When Hunger Becomes the Recruiter: Starvation Is the New Jihadist Foot Soldier in West Africa
Empty stomachs are now weapons of war. Across West Africa, hunger is no longer just a human tragedy. It has…