By Mahmoud Mohiedin & Carolina Sanchez-Paramo     NEW YORK – THE WORLD has made impressive strides in reducing extreme

By Ifeanyi M. Nsofor     ABUJA – A new malaria vaccine now being piloted in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 90% of malaria cases

By Ibitoye Segun Emmanuel   IBADAN, NIGERIA – Nearly every country has some way to go to achieve gender equality and empower all

By Jörg Reinhardt   ZURICH – Virtually every country worldwide has committed to achieving universal health coverage (UHC) by

By Howard Davies     LONDON – Banking supervision teams at the Bank of England “now receive the equivalent of twice the

By Usman Ali Lawan   KEFFI, NIGERIA – In the rural village of Kura in Kano State, Nigeria, where I grew up, my grandfather would

By Asha George, Amnesty LeFevre & Rajani Ved   CAPE TOWN – Digital technology is revolutionizing our daily lives. Mobile

By Anita Zaidi     SEATTLE – When Cyclone Idai ripped through Mozambique, Malawi, and Zimbabwe on the night of March 14, it

By Lauren Hendricks   WASHINGTON, DC – ACROSS HONDURAS, El Salvador, and Guatemala, women who seek to escape poverty by launching

By Mark Suzman     SEATTLE – TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, South Africa held its first free elections after the end of apartheid.