View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week: Monkeypox cases doubling every two weeks, mounting violence in northern Nigeria, a new malaria vaccine hitting the streets, and more.
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Deadly plateau: New analysis from ONE shows the considerable strain the war in Ukraine is putting on ODA budgets. Global in-donor refugee costs, which donors can count as ODA, could exceed $42 billion in 2022. That would equal nearly one-quarter of total ODA spent in 2021. Aid...
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View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week: African countries taking control of their health destinies, the link between climate change and food security, the building debt crisis, and more.
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Go your own way: African countries are actively applying lessons learned from the pandemic to take greater control over their health systems and bolster the continent’s health security. The African Union’s Executive Board agreed to make the Africa CDC an autonomous body, allowing it increased flexibility...
Globally, people are experiencing hunger every day. And we’ve seen how crises like climate change and the war in Ukraine are making that worse.
That’s why this year for Mandela Day, the Nelson Mandela Foundation called on global activists to explore sustainable solutions to both food security and the climate crisis.
Add your voice to our petition urging world leaders to end the hunger crisis.
ONE Champions Nyombi Morris and climate activist, Sipasi Olalekan are weighing in.
Nyombi on the journey to food...
Ayomide Agbaje is a ONE Activist in Nigeria using advocacy journalism as a tool for policy change.
In September 2021, I visited the Tse-yandev refugee camp, located in Makurdi, Benue State, Nigeria. This camp offers refuge to internally displaced persons (IDPs) who are one of the most vulnerable people in the country. Most of them migrated to the camp after fleeing the herder-farmer conflict in their region, another consequence of the climate crisis in Nigeria. Worse still, flooding and government...
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Boiling point: Russia’s war in Ukraine has driven 71 million people into poverty in low- and middle-income countries in the past three months. Experts are warning that the uptick in poverty levels, combined with a mounting debt crisis in those countries, increase the risk of social unrest. The UN Development Programme says lower-income countries are in desperate need of international assistance as they try to manage the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, critical debt levels, and the food and energy crisis. A recent drop in commodity...
Emitomo Tobi Nimisire is a ONE Champion from Nigeria.
ONE Champions are young changemakers from all across Africa who are committed to furthering ONE’s work and enacting change throughout the continent. To spotlight the capabilities and versatility of our ONE Champions, we spoke with four of them about their unique skills and the positive ways these skills are serving them and their communities.
This World Youth Skills Day, find out what they had to say.
Anne Mugo, Kenya
A graduate of international relations...
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week: the future of African vaccine manufacturing, “horrific” food choices, and more.
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Must read from ONE: Nearly all vaccines administered in Africa are manufactured elsewhere, presenting both a risk and opportunity for the continent. Unequal distribution of vaccine production sites coincides with inequitable access to vaccines. Scaling up African vaccine manufacturing capacity...
A roundup of the latest news, stats, and analysis of COVID-19’s impact in Africa. View our data tracker and sign up for our weekly newsletter. This week: a weak G7 summit outcome, a growing global learning crisis, and more.
Gentleman’s agreement: G7 (all male) leaders failed to deliver the ambitious commitments needed to adequately address the converging global crisis of conflict, food insecurity, climate change, and COVID-19 at this year’s G7 summit. Only nine of the summit’s 34 commitments are time bound...
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Dire states: The World Food Programme has further limited assistance to South Sudan due to funding shortages after rations were already halved in 2021. The reduction will leave an estimated 1.7 million people facing acute food insecurity without support. A combination of drought, conflict, and increased food prices stemming from Russia’s war in Ukraine has left over 60% of South Sudan’s population facing severe hunger.
Running on empty: Somalia’s worst drought in 40 years has killed more than 3 million herd animals in the past year, and pushed 386,400 children to...
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Upending lending: Despite federal troops and rebels in Ethiopia having declared a truce in the 1.5 year-long civil war in Tigray, lenders are scaling back. Disbursements from public and private banks are down by nearly 75%, from $3.1 billion in 2019-20 to under $775 million in the first nine months of the current fiscal year, with a growing budget deficit. This comes as aid is desperately needed: the conflict, paired with severe drought, has caused over 2.6 million...