Global Issues News Headlines for “Conflicts in Africa”

Western-Led Green Revolution Failing Africa

2026-08-17T06:07:48-07:00

CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA / KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia, August 17 (IPS) - As AGRA turns 20, a new report exposes its worsening failure to double productivity and incomes and halve undernourishment in participating African nations as promised.

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Former rebel fighters join campaign against Ebola in the DR Congo

2026-08-15T05:00:00-07:00

Demobilised former combatants are actively joining the fight against Ebola by participating in public information campaigns in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).

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PARAGUAY: ‘Transparency Should Strengthen Democracy, Not Turn Criticism of Those in Power into a Cause for Suspicion’

2026-08-14T05:54:28-07:00

CIVICUS discusses the challenges posed by Paraguay’s ‘anti-NGO law’ with Hugo González, executive director of the Paraguayan Network of LGBTQ+ Artists (REPAR+), a civil society organisation (CSO) that promotes the rights of LGBTQI+ people, which has joined the constitutional challenge against this law.

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‘Ebola is winning’: Epidemic now killing one person every 30 minutes

2026-08-14T05:00:00-07:00

The Ebola outbreak in the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) – the fastest-growing on record and on track to become the deadliest – is killing one person every 30 minutes.

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Sudan: The harrowing reality of giving birth in a war zone

2026-08-14T05:00:00-07:00

Sudanese women about to give birth are losing their babies and sometimes their own lives because of a lack of specialist healthcare support, amid the ongoing war, UN humanitarians said on Friday.

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African Rights Advocates Coordinate Response to Family Law Backlash

2026-08-13T08:31:42-07:00

NAIROBI, August 13 (IPS) - Women’s rights advocates, judges and lawyers have launched a coordinated campaign to reform family laws that discriminate against women and girls in Africa.

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Nicaragua: End of the Electoral Illusion

2026-08-12T08:57:34-07:00

MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, August 12 (IPS) - On 19 July, the 47th anniversary of the Sandinista revolution that first brought him to power, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega declared that his country would hold ‘no more elections’ so that the opposition could never again try to ‘seize power’. Just like that, he scrapped a presidential vote that had previously been pushed back to 2027, abandoning even the fiction of democratic legitimacy. The move changes little in practice, since no free vote had been possible for years. But it’s still revealing: a government that controls the army, the courts, the electoral machinery and the police, and will still not risk even a stage-managed ballot, is one that has lost confidence in its people.

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Malawi Bets on Battery Storage to Climate-Proof Its Fragile Power Grid

2026-08-12T07:54:57-07:00

LILONGWE, August 12 (IPS) - For years, Malawi’s electricity supply has been at the mercy of droughts, floods and cyclones that have repeatedly exposed the vulnerability of a power system heavily dependent on hydropower.

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Sudan: Attacks and further displacement in Blue Nile and North Kordofan

2026-08-12T05:00:00-07:00

The United Nations has once again urged warring parties in Sudan to protect civilians as the fighting continues to take a heavy toll on the population.

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Cholera spreads across borders in West and Central Africa

2026-08-12T05:00:00-07:00

Cholera is spreading rapidly across West and Central Africa, with active outbreaks now in six countries and millions of children at growing risk, UN children’s agency UNICEF has said.

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