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U.S. Aid Cuts Will Not Stop Africa’s Rise

8 months ago8 months ago6 mins Food for Africa Contributor0

By FFA News Editorial Desk Recent cuts to foreign-aid funding — particularly the drawdown of USAID programs in 2025 —…

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Daily Achievements Moving Africa Forward

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Progress in Africa is often told in big numbers and big crises. Yet most of what is changing lives happens…

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Rwanda did not wait for the world. It built.

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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.

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

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

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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?

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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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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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The Not-So-Sweet Crisis Facing West Africa

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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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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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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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