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    Can Africa Thrive Without Strong Families?

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    I Was Criminalized as a Domestic Violence Survivor. Here’s How We Reform the System

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    Scattered Memories: Preserving Sudan Through Art

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    Can Ghana Build a Better Justice System?

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    Too Hot for Chocolate? West Africa’s Cocoa Farmers Face an Uncertain Future

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    When the Floodwaters Recede, the Hunger Crisis Begins: Ghana Must Rebuild Its Farms Now

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    Pope Leo XIV Calls for Compassionate Healthcare for Those who Suffer

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    Africa’s Greatest Challenge May Become Africa’s Greatest Opportunity

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    Africa Produces Enough Food. So Why Do Millions Still Starve?

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Africa’s Greatest Challenge May Become Africa’s Greatest Opportunity
According to the FAO, Africa has approximately 2.6 billion hectares…
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The African cat that guards the rice
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Africa feeds the world. But who feeds Africa?
It is a question that cannot be answered by numbers…

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Born Hungry: The African footballers from humble beginnings

10 months ago10 months ago18 mins Food for Africa Contributor1

African football enters one of its most exciting weeks of international friendlies: Ghana faces Japan and South Korea; Egypt meets…

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Morocco Leads Where Others Talk-A Green Model for Africa’s Future.

10 months ago10 months ago5 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

المغرب يقود مستقبل إفريقيا الأخضر. المغرب يعيد رسم مستقبله بأهداف واضحة وتقدّم حقيقي.يأتي نحو 46 في المئة من القدرة الكهربائية المركّبة في…

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Kenya is rising: A young workforce and a connected market

10 months ago10 months ago6 mins Food for Africa Contributor1

Work, food, power and trade systems are shifting in Kenya. The world is noticing. Here are seven fact-based ways Kenya…

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Rwanda did not wait for the world. It built.

10 months ago10 months ago7 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

FFA News – Africa Is Rising, Episode 1 After the 1994 genocide, Rwanda’s state institutions were left in disarray. Government…

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Africa is not catching up. Africa is moving ahead on its own terms.

10 months ago10 months ago11 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

The center of gravity is shifting here. Something is changing across the continent, and it is visible in ordinary places….

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Nastasja Nedimović: How a mother lived through bone marrow cancer with food, gratitude and the gift of blood

11 months ago11 months ago17 mins Food for Africa Contributor5

Nine years after being diagnosed with incurable bone marrow cancer, she explains the daily habits and support that helped her…

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Before the world calls it famine

11 months ago11 months ago12 mins Food for Africa Contributor5

A slow-moving hunger crisis is unfolding across the Horn of Africa, where households lose strength long before the world calls…

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The Classroom Plate

11 months ago11 months ago9 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

How school meals are becoming Africa’s new food policy Photo: Wikimedia Commons / “African school kids having lunch.jpg” (CC BY-SA…

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The silent signals of famine: What India’s past warns Africa today

11 months ago11 months ago12 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

How lessons from India’s famine years can help Africa keep food fair, balanced, and within reach for all. In 1943,…

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Have we mistaken improvement for evolution?

11 months ago11 months ago11 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

We have changed our weapons, but have we changed our ways? Human progress has never been simple. Across centuries, every…

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Japanese Companies Are Missing Africa’s Biggest Growth Opportunity

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I Was Criminalized as a Domestic Violence Survivor. Here’s How We Reform the System

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Scattered Memories: Preserving Sudan Through Art

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When the Floodwaters Recede, the Hunger Crisis Begins: Ghana Must Rebuild Its Farms Now

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Pope Leo XIV Calls for Compassionate Healthcare for Those who Suffer

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Africa’s Greatest Challenge May Become Africa’s Greatest Opportunity

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Africa Produces Enough Food. So Why Do Millions Still Starve?

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The Not-So-Sweet Crisis Facing West Africa

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The Ebola Story Nobody Is Talking About

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The Resource Curse: When Rich Countries Stay Poor

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Ebola Is Spreading Again in Africa. Now Officials Fear a Second Crisis: Hunger

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She Went Hungry Every Morning. Now One Change Is Changing Ghana.

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What’s happening in Ghana may surprise you

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Household Hunger Linked to Higher Depression Risk Among Adolescent Girls

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Africa Now Carries the World’s Fastest-Growing Hunger Crisis

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Dr. Abdul Karim Williams: How Untreated Joint Disease Is Driving Hunger in Africa

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January in West Africa

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The road in 2025 was difficult. But Africa is not standing still.

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When Life Gets Heavy, Dance.

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When There Is No Food: What the Body Can and Cannot Survive On

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Sanctions are written for governments but paid for by civilians

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When the Walk for Water Replaces the Walk for Class

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3 Million People Just Rewrote the Narrative on Food and Power in Africa.

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Agenda 2063. Vision, Power, and the Fight Over Africa’s Future

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The Tree That Survived the Dinosaurs Could Not Survive Humans

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Africa’s New Agriculture Vision 2026–2035

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The Art of Not Breaking 

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The price of survival: how relief efforts are taxed in South Sudan

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Nastasja Nedimović: How a mother lived through bone marrow cancer with food, gratitude and the gift of blood

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Before the world calls it famine

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Africa’s Hunger Signal: What Happens When the Internet Stops

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Women and girls under siege in Sudan

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Why feeding people is national security

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Africa’s Locust Shield May Already Be Growing in Its Fields

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Fifty Billion for Climate: Will Food Be at the Table?

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When the Nearest Market Is Half a Day Away, What Does ‘Access to Food’ Even Mean?

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Africa at the Crossroads: Hunger, Health, Money, and the True Price of Progress

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Food for Africa News Reaches 1.5 Million Views

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If Hunger Killed as Fast as Bombs, Would the World Care More?

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Who loses more when AGOA ends: Africa or the U.S.?

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What if Deserts Could Grow Food?

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Reflections

Agriculture
Highlights
Africa’s Greatest Challenge May Become Africa’s Greatest Opportunity
According to the FAO, Africa has approximately 2.6 billion hectares…
Agriculture
Featured
The African cat that guards the rice
How a working cat can save a season of food…
Reflections
Africa feeds the world. But who feeds Africa?
It is a question that cannot be answered by numbers…

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