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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
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Sudan: A War That Starves

12 months ago12 months ago7 mins Food for Africa Contributor1

Darfur’s war turns bread into a weapon. Who will eat, and who will not? El Fasher, DarfurIn Sudan, war has…

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Peter Mutharika Returns at 85: Can His Second Chance Tackle Malawi’s Hunger and Fuel Crises?

12 months ago12 months ago9 mins Food for Africa Contributor1

Peter Mutharika has returned to the presidency of Malawi at the age of 85. Supporters call it a second chance…

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

12 months ago12 months ago7 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

George W. Bush signs AGOA, opening U.S. markets to African exports (2000).

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Them get money for war. No time for the poor.

12 months ago12 months ago10 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

Them get money for war. No time for the poor. It began as a short comment under an article on Food…

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Are Woke Double Standards Being Imposed on Ghana?

12 months ago12 months ago10 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

No nation should be forced to trade its values for aid, especially while hunger remains an urgent crisis. Ghana’s Parliament…

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Who Eats Better in Ghana? Prisoners or the Poor?

12 months ago12 months ago5 mins Food for Africa Contributor1

For the first time in fifteen years, Ghana has moved to increase the daily feeding allowance for inmates in its…

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The World Counts Wars in Days and Hunger in Decades

12 months ago12 months ago5 mins Food for Africa Contributor2

When hunger is the silent war The world counts wars in days. A battle breaks out, and the death toll…

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What if Deserts Could Grow Food?

12 months ago12 months ago11 mins Food for Africa Contributor2

A New Way to Grow in the Hardest Places in Africa and What It Could Mean for Millions You have…

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Can Today’s Hunger Be Faced with the Same Urgency as War?

12 months ago12 months ago8 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

From the Middle Passage to one in five Africans without food today, history shows how lives were once lost to…

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Africa Rising, But Who’s Left Behind?

12 months ago12 months ago6 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

In a booming Africa of skyscrapers, oil rigs, and shining malls, the question remains:what do we do when the person…

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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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