Africa

The debt crisis in Africa continues. Economist Jason Braganza highlights unresolved structural inequalities and criticises the G7's approach. He is calling for a comprehensive reform of the global financial architecture and debt restructuring.

On March 6, 2026, Senegalese women’s rights activist Awa Fall-Diop was awarded the Anne Klein Women’s Prize. In her speech, she highlights how closely global inequalities, colonial legacies, and feminist struggles are intertwined.

Across Morocco, Kenya, and Madagascar, youth-led movements are challenging political power through decentralised leadership, street mobilisation, and cross-border solidarity. While digital tools help coordinate action, the protests reflect deeper frustrations over inequality, corruption, and political exclusion.

Born a prince, he lost everything when his father's greed burned their kingdom to ash. Surviving as shoemaker, prisoner, and revolutionary, he has watched generations rise and fall under the same hungry crown. Now, as the youth march again, one question haunts him: will this revolution finally be different?

Gen Z movements around the world have captured global attention, and many movements share similar characteristics in terms of tactics and forms of participation. Yet the driving forces behind these movements cannot be treated as a monolith. The protests in, for example, Bangladesh, Nepal, or Morocco, emerge from complex local contexts. At the same time, structurally similar forces exert pressures on youth and society more broadly, and the Gen Z protests represent an unfinished struggle against injustice, inequality, and inadequate governance.

The fallout from the latest war in the Middle East has made visible a problem that many preferred to ignore: the international financial architecture is not fit for a world of cascading shocks and rising human need. Nowhere is this more obvious than in Africa.

Senegal is struggling under an oppressive debt burden; recent bloody student protests bear witness to this. The country needs international support to prevent another West African democracy from faltering. 

Women’s unpaid labor continues to prop up economies while remaining invisible in GDP. Felogene Anumo exposes how fiscal systems rely on women as shock absorbers - and argues it’s time to rewrite the economic rules that keep care undervalued and women overburdened.