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Africans should play vaccine geo-politics right to survive the next pandemic.
By Obedgiu Samuel In June 2022, the World Trade Organization finally arrived at an agreement on the controversial TRIPS waiver. Member states agreed on a deal that temporarily removes intellectual property barriers around patents for COVID-19 vaccines. It’s now apparent that the WTO’s developing nation members have a right to override exclusive patents on…
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COPs flop due to deliberate delay and obstruction
By Reverend Fletcher Harper Since early 2020, the world’s richest countries have shown that they have the money and capacity to act when they decide to, spending $14 trillion on COVID stimulus packages and $80 billion to counter Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine. , These recent, massive commitments are jarring when juxtaposed with the lethally…
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How the Strong Dollar Increases Starvation in Africa.
Samuel Obedigiu At the height of the demise of the now defunct Bretton-woods monetary system, former U.S President Richard Nixon’s treasury secretary John Connally said, “The dollar is our currency but it’s your problem.” The current strengthening of the dollar has indeed made this statement relevant again, manifesting itself through increased food prices. In just…
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Let’s ride on this “EACOP noise” to call for adjustment in EACOP agreements
By Samuel Obedgiu I don’t want to sound like a broken record by reiterating the fact that the European MEPs passed a resolution condemning the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) for human rights abuses. This won’t be the first action taken against oil sector agreements. Before the word EACOP even made it to our…
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Selfish World Trade Organization geo-politics failing Africans ability to feed themselves
Samuel Obedgiu, an Agricultural Biotehnologist addresses the question of unfair WTO trade policies
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EACOP must stop!
Michael Northrop Adapted from Environmental Finance How is it possible that a project like the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) could be under serious consideration in 2022, asks Michael Northrop Spitting distance from the headwaters of the Nile River and Lake Albert, inside two of Uganda’s most important national parks, 400 oil wells will soon…
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Africa Planet Watch 