UCGL Africa: Efforts to make of African Cities without street Children a world campaign

The Network of Elected Women (REFELA) seeks to make of the campaign “African Cities without Street Children” launched at the 8th Africities Summit held in Marrakesh in November 2018 a world campaign. The issue was brought up during the statutory meetings of the United Cities Local governments, UCLG Africa, held prior to the UCLG World […]

South Africa, Zambia, Zimbabwe expect drop in grain harvest

South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, three of the largest maize producing countries on the continent, expect their output to slash this year due to a shortage of rainfall. Heatwaves and drought heavily compromised the maize harvest of the three countries as well as smaller producers such as Lesotho and Botswana, according to recent official reports. […]

BRICS foil South Africa’s pro-Polisario maneuvers

BRICS members meeting in Moscow rejected a South African proposal to include the Polisario separatists’ thesis in the agenda of a meeting on the MENA region. South Africa’s representative was isolated as the sole country to seek to impose a proxy conflict imposed by Algeria to unsettle Morocco, at a time the MENA region is […]