Children from East Africa, where heatwaves and floods have shuttered schools in recent months, are pushing for world leaders ...

When Americans no longer want a car, laptop or clothes, where do some of those goods go? Most end up in the Global South, where millions of people depend on repairing, dismantling or selling them for ...

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 ...

Senegal’s Atlantic tuna fishery, has made history by becoming the first in West Africa to receive Marine Stewardship Council ...

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

The government in South Africa says it will not help about 4,000 miners inside an illegal closed mine in the country's North ...

In this edition of Wilson Center NOW, we discuss the state of democratic governance in Africa and what US and African leaders can learn from recent trends on the continent with Charles Ukeje and Rawia ...

Focusing on climate finance, the decisions to be taken at this year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP29) in ...

In Equatorial Guinea, where 82-year-old President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo has ruled since seizing power in a coup in ...

One of West Africa's most iconic hiking destinations is under threat and diminishing fast due to illegal 'slash and burn' farming. Located in the Southern Koinadugu region of Sierra Leone, the Loma ...

Standing below a stump of splintered limbs, I looked up at a grey sky once filled with flourishing boughs. Torn down by a heavy storm in May 2023, Freetown’s historic 400-year-old Cotton Tree is now ...