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It is time to fix the broken system that fuels rising inequality

High debt burdens, tax abuse and aid cuts are threatening the future of billions of people. Ahead of the financing summit in Seville this summer, four Nordic organisations call on Nordic governments to push for deep and rapid debt cancellation for Africa.

Opinion June 26, 2025

What the bees are telling us

Bees are speaking to us - not with sound, but through their presence, their absence, and their steady...

Opinion May 20, 2025

The siege of Gaza and the rise of a militarized neoliberal relief architecture

Following a two-month-long Israeli blockage of relief from entering Gaza, the new private initiative...

Opinion May 19, 2025

A new compact for global health: rebalancing power between African governments and donors

The closure of USAID and other aid cuts are not anomalies to be fixed, but symptoms of a model that has...

Opinion May 14, 2025

The climate crisis is coming to our plates. Here’s how we need to support farmers

Smallholder farmers - many of them women - grow most of the food consumed in South Asia and sub-Saharan...

Opinion April 29, 2025

Rethinking aid: A call for genuine transformation in the development paradigm

Aid in the Global South - and in Africa, in particular - has at times functioned as a mechanism of control,...

Opinion April 22, 2025

Africa without foreign aid for health: Free at last?

The geopolitical vandalism of Trump II could have the unintended consequence of prompting low and middle-income...

Opinion February 25, 2025

Op-ed comment: IMPACT-se attacks UNWRA’s role in education, praises Sweden for defunding agency

In an opinion article by two scholars, Jo Kelcy and Anne Irfan, published in Development Today on January...

Opinion February 11, 2025

As Trump guts USAID, Europe is ill-equipped to step up

Following the suspension of US foreign aid, the obvious expectation is that the European Union would...

Opinion February 06, 2025

Sweden’s decision to stop funding UNRWA threatens the education of an entire generation

Two scholars challenge Development Minister Benjamin Dousa’s claim that other humanitarian agencies can...

Opinion January 28, 2025

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