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South Africa leads the continent in offering more paternal leave to fathers. How to make sure both parents benefit
12th December 2023 A South African high court has ushered in a new era of parental leave with a landmark ruling that new parents can share four months of parental... →
Ransom kidnappings challenge North Cameroon
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 12th December 2023 In just three years (2015–18), kidnappers in North Cameroon collected ransom money of around €3 million (CFAF 2 billion), according to Garoua... →
East Africa Floods Highlight Urgency of COP28 Negotiations, Especially on Loss and Damage Fund
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 12th December 2023 In the first days of COP28, several developed countries committed funding to the newly established Loss and Damage Fund, which has been set up to... →
Ukraine’s ‘low return’ on its African investment 
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 8th December 2023 Ukraine’s Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba was being rather undemocratic – by his admission – when he told visiting African journalists last month... →
Can Mandela’s Principles Still Guide Us Today? Reflections 10 Years After His Death
By: South African Institute of International Affairs 8th December 2023 Nelson Mandela was a complex man defined by his principled commitment to justice, equality, fairness and freedom, but also by his pragmatism and a... →
No love, but some sympathy
By: Terence Creamer 8th December 2023 There is not much love for ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA). The near-monopoly business is seen as over-protected, and under responsive by many of... →
COP28: South Africa pioneered plans to transition to renewable energy – what went wrong
7th December 2023 South Africa’s experience in piloting a new type of climate finance vehicle can inform debates about how to fund a just transition from fossil... →
Water crisis in South Africa: damning report finds 46% contamination, 67% of treatment works near to breaking down
7th December 2023 A new report by South Africa’s Department of Water and Sanitation paints a grim picture of the quality of the country’s drinking water, and its... →
Africa must stand together to end Ethiopia's conflict
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 7th December 2023 Ethiopia's Amhara region has been the epicentre of political violence and armed conflict, with Fano ethnic militias clashing with the federal... →
Can Chad’s constitutional referendum still be saved?
By: ISS, Institute for Security Studies 7th December 2023 Following President Idriss Déby Itno’s death in May 2021, Chad entered a transition led by his son, General Mahamat Idriss Déby. The transition... →
