Commentary

There is an increasing moral, ethical and cultural decline, decay and deterioration within the Ethiopian society itself nowhere seen before.

Fashionable projects such as providing laptops to pupils attract a lot of financial support, but it is not always money well spent.

While Africa can and should do more to improve vaccination, the global community also has a responsibility to make a concerted effort to bring down vaccine costs, writes Folake Olayinka.

The issue of shrinking and closing spaces for civil society must be added to the agenda of national parliaments, multilateral organizations, and international negotiation processes.

There is never likely to be a perfect moment for introducing new climate policies, but long-term problems require policies that send long-term signals.

The US President’s Malaria Initiative (PMI) continues to be a key partner in the fight against the disease. PMI supports 19 countries in sub-Saharan Africa, including Ethiopia, writes Patricia M. Haslach

The Global Citizen Commission has been working to articulate the ethical basis of global citizenship, by revisiting and renewing existing charters and declarations that can underpin a new, ethically responsible world order.

The dictator is burdened with the task of making all the innumerable decisions necessary to govern.

The unprecedented number of jihadist attacks in multiple countries in recent months has demonstrated how vulnerable our societies have become and how transnational the threat is, write Olusegun Obasanjo, Tedros Adhanom and Wolfgang Ischinger.

The cybercrime bill, at points, sends mixed signals when it comes to privacy safeguards. It, for instance, provides that ‘real-time collection of computer data’ – or interception, shall be taken as a measure of last resort, and only upon the direct approval of the Minster of Justice, writes Kinfe Micheal Yilma.