On the opening day of ‘Summer Davos’ in Tianjin, Professor Ang Yeung Yeung of John Hopkins University, spoke about developing countries being presented with a false binary choice between t...
Davos in January for the World Economic Forum gathering can be crowded. After all, it’s accommodating not simply some of the richest, most influential people on earth, but their egos too. But even a...
About 90 percent of children in Africa don’t get enough to eat. Children suffering from malnutrition are far less likely to keep going to school. Without an education, millions of children are h...
A Malagasay start-up has won a share of $150,000 at the Blue Carbon Plus Challenge in Singapore during Regenerative Ocean Week 2025. Mena Tsook took the win in the Pilot Phase category organised by Ha...
Masanga Hospital lies in Tonkolili in the north of Sierra Leone. It serves 440,000 people across a huge rural area where limited infrastructure means it can take many hours for people to reach the hos...
In Kakamega County, Kenya, the local government handed a contract to a Chinese construction company to build a road that would be of huge benefit to the community. But it did not go smoothly. The cons...
The reality for refugees in Kakuma, Kenya Kakuma (“nowhere” in Swahili) Camp in Northwest Kenya is ‘home’ to around 150,000 refugees. It is run by UNHCR and the Kenyan Department of Refugee Se...
Donald Trump is putting the border wall between Mexico and Texas as a cornerstone of his campaign for election. The current conflict in Gaza and Palestine is symbolised by the wall round the West Bank...
I admit that I’m a bit of a fan of Give Directly and of direct cash in principle. The arguments are compelling: direct cash hands power to developing communities – the very people who know best wh...
Sometimes it’s great to step back and reflect, learn and explore alternative views. Podcasts, documentaries, books and online articles are a great way to catch up. This is what the team at The A...