Support for financing loss and damage isn’t keeping pace with climate impacts in vulnerable countries.
More attention should be given to how remittances can help African countries withstand and adapt to climate change.
While public climate financing remains inadequate, remittances offer several unique advantages.
The Paris Olympics were a reminder of how sports are the latest chapter in Eurocentric ideals that cruelly affect African women.
Many Africans are denied access to sporting events, and athletes and performers are exposed to discrimination and racial abuse.
Flooding claimed many lives and left hundreds of thousands displaced, dispossessed and angry at the authorities who failed them.
World Refugee Day is a reminder that Africa and the world cannot peacefully maintain the current pace of displacement.
The use of starvation as a weapon of war is reversing decades of improvements in global hunger.
If Israel is indeed considering this option, African states cannot ignore the legal, humanitarian and political implications.
Africans displaced by climate change desperately need support, but disputes over the fund’s modalities could hinder progress.
The COP28 committee on the Loss and Damage Fund must ensure Africans displaced by climate change are covered.
Using billions in public funds for private border security could be the latest chapter in government’s xenophobic fixation.
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