Credit: Jaime Saldarriaga/AFP By Inés M. PousadelaMONTEVIDEO, Uruguay, Jun 26 2026 – On 21 June Colombians made their choice. By the narrowest of margins, Abelardo de la Espriella, a far-right criminal lawyer who’s never held elected office, became president-elect. Climate activists, human rights defenders, Indigenous communities and peace advocates have the most to lose from the incoming...

Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/IMF Photo By Chie Aoyagi, Maurizio Leonardi, Athene Laws and Hamza MighriWASHINGTON DC, Jun 26 2026 – For decades, official development assistance has been a central pillar of financing in sub-Saharan Africa. That pillar is now weakening—quickly and broadly. In 2025, bilateral aid to the region fell sharply, with early estimates pointing to cuts of about...

As the afternoon sun casts a golden glow over Mukwiro village on Wasini Island on Kenya’s Indian Ocean South Coast, Mwanasiti Mwalola, 26 and Mzungu Mohammed Dhossa, 45, stand at the community fish landing site, carefully receiving baskets of freshly caught fish from returning fishers. A weighing scale hangs before them, with a pen and […]

By Appolinaire DjikengNAIROBI, Kenya, Jun 26 2026 – Smallholder farmers in Africa and Asia are likely to still be reeling from the fuel and fertilizer crisis caused by conflict in the Middle East when what forecasters expect to be a “super” El Niño arrives later this year. Appolinaire Djikeng When climate extremes and conflict converge to cause crop harvests to fail, livestock will once...