Liberia is going to the polls today to elect a new president. With no incumbent – Nobel peace prize winner Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the current president, is finishing her second term – this vo...
Over the course of the past year, Cameroon has been experiencing internal turmoil and instability related to grievances pitting an Anglophone minority against a majority Francophone establishment...
A new survey shows big gaps in what policy makers in key countries know about achieving gender equality by 2030–a key target of the Sustainable Development Goals. The survey, included in a new...
https://undispatch.com/chart-day-policy-makers-dont-know-data-need-achieve-gender-equality-2030/
While the political activities at the United Nations take center-stage during this General Assembly week in New York, a little farther uptown from the UN headquarters, Columbia University is host...
https://undispatch.com/dont-empower-women-achieve-sustainable-development-goals-instead/
America’s neighbors to the north are mounting an experiment. Last week, Canada announced its “first feminist international-assistance policy,” following comprehensive public consultations w...
Yesterday, only one week after the presidential election, Francois Hollande walked out of the Elysée palace, and Emmanuel Macron officially became the 8th president of France’s fifth Republic....
https://undispatch.com/france-key-security-player-africa-hollande-now/
The release of Reporters Without Borders annual Press Freedom index this week coincided with a grim anniversary for Burundi, which now ranks as one of the least free countries for media in the wo...
https://undispatch.com/no-one-watching-burundi-slides-repression/
For the past thee months, the Northwest and Southwest regions of Cameroon have been cut off from the Internet, after the government abruptly ordered Internet Service Providers to cut off access f...
https://undispatch.com/government-used-fake-news-fears-pretext-shut-off-internet-half-country/
The war in Yemen – which is now entering its third year of active conflict – is having a devastating impact on the population. Almost the entire country is affected, with alarming rates of fo...
https://undispatch.com/years-decline-child-marriages-skyrocketing-yemen-war/
The World Happiness Report confirms what we already know - that people living in societies where people take care of one another are better off than people in societies who are more focused on th...