While women pay a disproportionately heavy price in armed conflicts every day, they are still largely excluded from official peacebuilding processes

In Kenya, more and more women enjoy mountain climbing and hope to inspire the next generation of female mountaineers.

On 28 January, the military regimes of Mali, Burkina Faso and Niger withdrew from the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) with immediate effect. This has grave consequences for the entire region.

Many Malawians are disappointed with their government, abandoning the hope that their economic situation will change for better

In Zanzibar, women have taken up the cultivation of climate-resilient sponges in the Indian Ocean

Burundi tries to fight the worst hunger and keep youngsters in school by providing school meals

Extreme weather events show the effects of global heating. The worst affected are those most in need – for example in Kakuma in northern Kenya, one of the world’s largest refugee camps.

Kenya’s LGBTQ community has scored several significant victories in the courts, further cementing the legal grounds for the protection of queers

South Africa has seen several waves of migration from Zimbabwe. After apartheid, Zimbabweans were welcome. But with South Africa’s own economic problems, they have been met with growing hostility over the past years.

In the last harvest season, a flood destroyed most of the crops in the Machinga district in the southern region of Malawi