Gabonese citizens are voting on a new constitution with many positive elements. Many experts say that if the referendum is ...

Microfinance has become essential for giving unbanked people access to financial services. However, the rise in unpaid loans is threatening the stability of many institutions, especially in fragile ...

Countries in the global South have attempted to press the United States for better engagement in multilateral forums. But ...

ECOWAS member state transport ministers adopted a regional plan to cut the cost of air travel in West Africa to eliminate air ...

The government is preparing to trial a medically-assisted treatment programme to help heroin users who want to quit the drug.

Norway's development minister Anne Beathe Tvinnereim on what her country is getting right and what the world is doing wrong ...

The offer comes after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan attended a BRICS summit in Kazan, hosted by Russian President ...

What is done cannot be undone,” Anne Frank wrote in her eponymous diary some 80 years ago, “but one can prevent it happening again.” I had occasion to reflect on ...

Activists are planting trees in an effort to protect disappearing forests in Mali, but residents are cutting and selling ...

For three decades, Kentucky-based WaterStep has provided safe water to communities in developing countries and responded to ...

Small-scale fisheries play a vital role in providing food and livelihoods for millions of people around the world, ...

South Africa’s government says it will not help an estimated 4,000 illegal miners inside a closed mine in the country’s North ...