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As Vice President Kamala Harris tours Africa, Amna Nawaz explores the realities on the ground there and the changing relationship between the U.S. and the 56 nations of the continent with Gyude Moore, the director of the Africa Initiative at the Center for Global Development.

African countries saddled with debt and ravaged by losses and damages from weather events like cyclones, drought and extreme temperatures have agreed to consider swapping debt to invest in climate action in a meeting of finance ministers in the Ethiopi...

The number attendees has rebounded to some 2,000 people - similar to levels before the pandemic. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Harnessing the power of women in political leadership in Nigeria will be critical for the incoming government.

With border conflicts, climate change and rising prices threatening the food security of millions of people displaced from their homes in Burkina Faso, emergency humanitarian assistance funded by China poured into the country earlier this month.

Lindsay Dolan of Wesleyan University will talk about

The aid, from China

The multilateral development banks are in the spotlight as countries struggle to address multiple crises, setbacks in poverty reduction, and global climate and health challenges. Shareholders and the broader international community are calling for a system-wide reform of MDBs to help them assist countries in tackling these challenges.

In this piece, I recap a few key messages on USAID’s call to action, honing in on the role of data and evidence in driving policy and decision-making. I argue that we need better data on the progress of maternal and child survival through improved health information systems as well as greater use of economic evidence to help drive priorities. These two approaches can help donors and governments drive reductions in preventable deaths of moms and babies.

US Vice-President Kemala Harris kicks off her Africa tour to reinforce the Biden administration's strategy to strengthen the US-Africa relationship and expand private sector investment.