February 2024

Call For Scaled Up Funding For Much-Needed, Successful Joint Program In Nigeria

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Nigeria is home to 15 percent of the world’s out-of-school children. More than 7.6 million girls are not in school, and only nine percent of the poorest girls in the country are in secondary school. The Boko Haram insurgency and other armed groups fuel the out-of-school crisis in northeast Nigeria, disrupting the education of nearly […]

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Coastal Indigenous and Minority Women Driving Kenya’s Blue Forest Conservation Efforts

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Tsunza Peninsula is a natural wonder that sits just inside the many inlets of Mombasa Island on the border between Mombasa and Kwale Counties—a little-known spectacle of lagoons, islands, and thick mangroves in Kinango Sub-County, Kwale County, on Kenya’s coastal region.  This natural paradise is a beehive of activities, with fishers meandering through the creeks

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Joint NGO letter Calls for Renewal of UN Commission on Human Rights in South Sudan at Critical Moment

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South Sudan: As elections loom, extend vital Human Rights Commission mandate Excellencies, Ahead of the UN Human Rights Coun­cil’s (“HRC” or “Coun­­cil”) 55th session (26 Feb­­ruary-5 April 2024), we, the undersigned non-governmental orga­nisa­tions, write to urge your delegation to sup­port a full extension of the mandate of the UN Commission on Human Rights in South

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FEATURE-Tech activists write code to save migrants in the Mediterranean

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Migrant crossings and deaths rise in the Mediterranean Rescue NGOs seek tech tools as open-source data cuts cost Activists build tracking apps, image-detection algorithms By Beatrice Tridimas Feb 27 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When a migrant rescue non-profit asked Nik Zemke if he could design an app to pinpoint ships in distress in the Mediterranean,

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Committee to Investigate U.S. Activities in Africa and the CAR at Work

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Committee to Investigate U.S. Activities in Africa and the CAR at Work On February 21, 2024, the Committee to Investigate U.S. activities in Africa and the CAR held a roundtable discussion in one of the conference rooms of the Barthelemy Boganda Sports Complex on “The Hidden Presence of the United States in Africa. The meeting

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French journalist covering African Union summit detained in Ethiopia

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Antoine Galindo had travelled to Ethiopia to cover the African Union summit earlier this month for the specialist publication Africa Intelligence.Following his arrest on Thursday, he was brought before a judge on Saturday, who ordered his detention extended until March 1, Africa Intelligence said, condemning the “unjustified arrest”.” These spurious accusations are not based on any tangible evidence that

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Group of Tunisian NGOs call for respect of migrants’ dignity

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A group of Tunisian and regional NGOs issued a press release revisiting Tunisian President Kais Saied’s anti-migrant speech from the previous year and condemning its content. Saied’s remarks about a “criminal plan … devised at the beginning of this century to modify Tunisia’s demography” drew sharp criticism from the NGOs. A group of Tunisian and

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