Global Development

Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam is seen as it undergoes construction work on the river Nile in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia September 26, 2019. Picture taken September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

What Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia must overcome to all benefit from the Grand Renaissance Dam

Addisu Lashitew

Wednesday, June 24, 2020

CAPE TOWN, SOUTH AFRICA- Community leaders closed Sophumelela High School, sending all students home after 4 teachers tested positive for COVID-19 and one of them died in Cape Town, South Africa on June 18 2020. Health Minister Dr. Zweli Mkhize admitted that, according to the World Health Organization, South Africa did not qualify to go to level 3 reopening, thus increasing the number of Covid-19 infected in the country, with 83,890 positive cases. (NO RESALE)

Africa in the news: COVID-19, debt relief, and political updates

Payce Madden and Mary Treacy

Saturday, June 20, 2020

Volunteer Julie Bunna sweeps broken glass along Michigan Avenue in front of the ransacked Under Armour store Sunday, May 31, 2020, the morning after protests led to widespread destruction in downtown Chicago. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/TNS)

Rebuilding toward the great reset: Crisis, COVID-19, and the Sustainable Development Goals

Zia Khan and John McArthur

Friday, June 19, 2020

Youth employment through industries without smokestacks: Workshop 3

8:30 AM - Friday Jun 19, 2020 12:00 PM EDT

A water basin is seen near Ethiopia's Grand Renaissance Dam as it undergoes construction work on the river Nile in Guba Woreda, Benishangul Gumuz Region, Ethiopia September 26, 2019. Picture taken September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Tiksa Negeri

Could the Nile dispute be an opportunity to boost freshwater technology?

Addisu Lashitew and Haim Kassa Gebeyehu

Thursday, June 18, 2020

SDG Leadership Cities: Third convening

11:00 AM - Thursday Jun 18, 2020 1:00 PM EDT

Reopening America and the World

Reopening America & the World

Tuesday, June 16, 2020

Protesters applaud during a rally against racial inequality in the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, U.S., June 10, 2020. REUTERS/Erin Scott

Inequality, the SDGs, and the human rights movement in the US and around the world

Sarah E. Mendelson

Friday, June 12, 2020

Customers receive money from families working abroad at a money remittance center in Makati City, Metro Manila, Philippines, September 19, 2018. REUTERS/Eloisa Lopez

How to keep remittances flowing

Mahmoud Mohieldin and Dilip Ratha

Thursday, June 11, 2020

A Chinese clerk counts RMB (renminbi) yuan banknotes at a bank in Nantong city, east China's Jiangsu province, 24 July 2018.China's yuan weakened against the dollar on Friday (27 July 2018), breaching the key 6.8 per dollar level, dragged lower by a weaker midpoint and fears of further depreciation amid Sino-U.S. trade tensions. Large state-run banks offering dollars in the yuan forwards market, however, helped the renminbi pare some of its earlier losses by midday, although the yuan is set for its seventh week of losses - its longest losing streak since November 2015. Major Chinese state banks were seen swapping dollars for yuan in the forwards markets as they had the previous day, two traders said. Their operations dragged one-year tenor dollar/yuan swap points down into negative territory. No Use China. No Use France.

China’s debt relief for Africa: Emerging deliberations

Tuesday, June 9, 2020