Africa has contributed less to the climate crisis than any other continent, but it will suffer some of the worst consequences.

People all over the world are resorting to mass demonstrations to express grievances and press unmet demands.

The future of work may be the defining issue of our time. Africa will fast become the world’s workforce and 375 million young Africans will enter labor markets by 2030.

With almost 60 percent of its population under the age of 25, Africa is the world’s youngest region. Yet it is widely recognized that young people are often left behind.

I wish there was another way of starting my article, but I am not going to pretend – Ethiopia is in deep political and socio-economic crisis.

In the January 1954 issue of The Atlantic, John F. Kennedy, then the junior US senator from Massachusetts, argued that the ongoing migration of industries from New England to the American South should not be hindered.

In the excitement around Sudan’s evolving political order and the concerns around South Sudan’s challenges, less attention has been paid to some long-standing contentious issues that have the potential to create new havoc.

Imagine the following scenario. In a matter of days, a lethal influenza pandemic spreads around the world, halting trade and travel, triggering social chaos, gutting the global economy, and endangering tens of millions of lives.

In August, a plaque was installed where Iceland’s once-iconic Okjökull glacier stood, before climate change turned it into a lake.

The 15 countries of the Economic Community of West African States have agreed to adopt, as of next year, a new shared currency, the “ECO.” But, as the eurozone’s experience has shown, currency unions can be unwieldy.