Cooperation between Africa and Europe should build on both continents’ strengths to identify converging interests, compatible visions, and potential synergies.

As calls for global financial architecture reform grow louder, activists risk overloading policymakers. They should instead propose a comprehensive viable reform plan for People and Planet.

It could mark a shift toward a more inclusive financial system for the climate- and debt-stressed Global South.

At a time when Europe faces existential risks in the form of climate change and geopolitical competition, an over-cautious application of technical rules risks missing the bigger picture.

A debt crisis looms over low- and-middle-income countries. One in five people live in a country teetering toward default. NPR unpacks the causes and consequences, including spiraling food prices.

While European governments are focused on Ukraine, they risk diverting aid to Europe at a time when Africa needs it most.

Day after day, news reports depict how extreme heatwaves, floods, drought, and fires are indiscriminately ravaging continents, causing havoc, losses, damage, and tragedy, and fueling a sense of despair among affected communities. Yet, the IMF response to this crisis has so far been muted.

Unfortunately, those Western governments with decisionmaking power and resources to help vulnerable countries respond to the polycrisis are not inclined to use it, given domestic cost-of-living crises in G7 countries, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine, and limited domestic political appetite for international initiatives.

The US and Japan have responded positively to developing countries’ calls for greater representation. Europe is lagging behind and losing credibility.

The war in Ukraine is is impacting millions of people across Africa, Asia and the Middle East and a food shortage is looming.