Standing in line at a Nairobi polling station to cast my ballot in Kenya’s 2017 presidential election, I struck up a conversation with fellow voters in the queue. The result was a foregone conclusion, said one of the gentlemen proudly. We had the numbers and our candidate was going to win. Everyone else agreed.

The way we produce, consume and discard food is no longer sustainable. That much is clear from the newly released UN climate change report which warns that we must rethink how we produce our food — and quickly — to avoid the most devastating impacts of global food production, including massive deforestation, staggering biodiversity loss and accelerating climate change.

The current Ethiopian politics is dominated by discussions over the quest for statehood by many zones in the Southern Regional State.

As a physician and a public health practitioner born in the continent of Africa, I have been following the story of the Ebola epidemic in different African countries with a mixture of sadness, disbelief, confusion, and frustration.

During the months of May and June this year, I had the unique opportunity to shadow and learn alongside pediatricians, residents, interns and medical undergraduate students here in Addis Ababa.

Today, 1.4 billion girls and women live in countries that are failing on gender equality, in areas ranging from education and decent work to health and violence. Yet one of the most effective ways to empower girls and women – safe and reliable access to mobile phones and the Internet – is in danger of being ignored.

Government ministers are attending the United Nations High-level Political Forum this week to review countries’ progress toward several of the UN’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals.

It’s easy to think of starvation as a challenge that entered the rich world’s consciousness in the 1980s and was largely solved through charity rock concerts.

African countries have taken their first step towards an economic integration. This has been marked by the signing of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)on July 7 2019 in Niger.

Aichetou, a 14-year-old girl, lives on the outskirts of Nouakchott, the capital of Mauritania, in Africa’s Sahel region.