Child Mining in Tanzania: A Forgotten Story
By Tony Spence
Children are often attracted to mining due to a lack of regulation and the promise of easy money. As a result, thousands of children in Tanzania work in difficult and dangerous conditions for little money in which their education, safety and wellbeing is compromised.
Disability, Development Agenda and Poverty
By Olufunmilayo Akande
The 2006 Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities was aimed at promoting, protecting and ensuring the full and equal enjoyment of all human rights and fundamental freedoms by all persons with disabilities. However, despite the commitments made, disability remains largely invisible in most mainstream development agenda and processes both at global and local levels.
3 billion people in the world today can’t afford a healthy diet: UN Hunger...
The latest estimates are that a staggering 3 billion people or more cannot afford a healthy diet. In sub-Saharan Africa and southern Asia, this is the case for 57 percent of the population – though no region, including North America and Europe, is spared.
Malnutrition and Empty International Promises
By Olufunmilayo Akande Today, 16,000 children worldwide die each day before celebrating their fifth birthday as a result of preventable causes linked to malnutrition.
Press Freedom in Burundi: A Shrinking Space
by James Belgrave
Burundi, a country praised in recent years for its free and dynamic press and active civil society, is witnessing a worrying deterioration...
The Hadza of Tanzania: Inside Story of 21st Century Hunter-Gatherers
By Tony Spence
The Hadza people are now at a crossroads, facing serious issues regarding their future as it becomes harder to secure food and resources. A romanticised appeal of a hunter-gatherer existence does not mask their true struggle
Causes of Conflict in South Sudan: Oil and Weak Institutions
"An unstable Sudan is not good for South Sudan as well. So we want to see a democratic system in Sudan as well as in South Sudan and then we can have good relations with Sudan in a meaningful way," says Dr. Luka B. Deng Kuol, Director and Associate Professor at the Centre for Peace & Development, University of Juba, South Sudan.
Child Soldiers of the 21st Century: What Can be Done About Them?
After armed groups in South Sudan recently released over 200 child soldiers, now is the ideal time to explore why more needs to be done to prevent children's lives being corrupted by violence.
Climate Change in Nigeria: Should we address poverty and malnutrition, too?
by Oluwadara O. Alegbeleye
In recent times, there has been an unhealthy, exaggerated, hypocritical emphasis on ‘climate change’ issues in Nigeria. The federal ministry of health...
