Climate change in Kenya: drought and water insecurity
Alessio Paduano is a photographer well known to our readers now. We discovered his work in 2023 through his photographic reportage from Turkey in the wake of the earthquake that...
Forced displacement, human pressure and local resilience in Cameroon
How a massive influx of internally displaced people caused natural resource overexploitation, leading to rapid deforestation and land degradation, and worsening the current humanitarian crisis. The authors explain what happened,...
Cameroon: the tenacity of a political order
Editor’s note At times vaunted for its political stability, epitomised by a President of the Republic in office since 1982, Cameroon has however been rocked by serious political, social and...
“Unsustainable extensification”: donors deepen hunger with the Green Revolution in Africa
Green Revolution initiatives in Africa promise “sustainable intensification”, productivity improvements to grow more food on the same land. In fact, according to Timothy A. Wise, donors to such initiatives need...
The challenges of humanitarian transition in Africa
Modern humanitarian aid took shape and formulated its vision on European battlefields with the creation of the Red Cross. Almost a century later, in the 1960s, international aid, which was...
The never-ending story
Joint editor with Boris Martin, Editor-in-Chief, of this issue under a partnership between Humanitarian Alternatives and the International Humanitarian Studies Association We have not seen the end of the Covid-19 pandemic....
World demographic prospects: between certainties and uncertainties
To open this “Focus”, Gilles Pison offers us an overall vision based on past developments to help us to better understand those to come. While the world’s population should continue...
The impact of Covid-19 on African civil society organisations
Even though Africa has been relatively spared from the pandemic in terms of both infection and mortality rates, it is a different story for the continent’s organisations. The author draws...
The impact of international proceedings for bypassing the State: the example of Madagascar
Madagascar was severely hit by a protracted political and diplomatic crisis triggered by the 2009 military coup. The transitional government, in power until 2014, was unable to prevent the State...
A test of dignity: an anthropological analysis of Covid-19 responses in West Africa
The three authors of this article conducted an anthropological analysis of the Covid-19 pandemic as seen from and experienced in Africa, shedding valuable insight into how this pandemic has been...
Use of research by NGOs: a call for reflection and action
The authors stress the importance of taking research findings into account for NGO interventions, and identify the technical and political challenges this presents. They put forward several approaches favorable to...
HIV/AIDS: may our struggle not become undetectable
Despite scientific research, nearly 800,000 people still die from HIV and 1.7 million others are newly infected each year across the world. Allocating financial resources to this struggle is therefore...