Mar 24, 2017 | Blog, Health & Human Security
Famine. In a world of plenty, the brutality of famine continues to afflict. When acute malnutrition rates among children exceed 30 percent, more than 2 people per 10,000 die per day, and one in five households in an area are not able to access food. It is never...
Feb 7, 2017 | Cities, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
In the refugee-hosting countries in Africa, camp-based humanitarian aid has been a default response to the protracted situations of forced displacement. In the anxiety and confusion that has been generated by the US travel ban turmoil, the residents of many refugees...
Nov 18, 2016 | Blog, Cities, Climate & Planet Stewardship, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
By Eldon Opiyo [NAIROBI] Despite recent improvements in infrastructure and affordability, internet adoption in Sub-Saharan Africa is not growing rapidly, a report from the Internet Society says. The report says that the continent’s internet adoption is not growing...
Sep 3, 2015 | Blog, Employment & Prosperity, Health & Human Security
By Valentina Jovanovski Health workers in Kenya’s refugee camps would be more likely to stick with their jobs if they were offered more training and the possibility of academic qualifications, according to a study. Healthcare assistants who are from the refugee...
Jul 29, 2015 | Climate & Planet Stewardship, Environment & Sustainability
As social media explodes with #CeciltheLion postings, and the Internet descends on the man who killed the magnificent animal, WildCRU.org (the organization monitoring the tracking collar that recorded the movements and behaviors of the popular lion) has moved past the...
