Public sector employees in Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, and several other African countries have lost up to 50% of their income over the past five years due to austerity measures. At the same time, severe cuts in public spending have resulted in overcrowded classrooms and reduced access to healthcare.
Sub-Saharan Africa accounts for around 65% of all HIV cases worldwide. The situation has worsened following the suspension of USAID funding. One positive development is that HIV medicines are increasingly being manufactured locally. A Kenyan pharmaceutical company has become the first in Africa to receive WHO approval.
Ethiopia is in talks with China to convert part of its US$5.38 billion debt (from loans at 7.25% in US dollars to 3% in Chinese yuan). The move is expected to save Ethiopia substantial interest payments. Many other BRICS countries are pursuing similar strategies, representing another significant geopolitical step by China.
Half of the world's CO₂ emissions can be traced back to just 36 multinational companies, including Saudi Aramco, Shell, Coal India, ExxonMobil, and several Chinese corporations. Source: Media cooperation between The Guardian and E+Z (Engagement Global gGmbH).
Uganda hosts more refugees than any other African country, many of them from Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Since development aid was cut, the country has been facing the threat of a humanitarian catastrophe. 83% of all USAID programmes have been terminated. On 1 July, the US Agency for International Development officially ceased its operations. According to a study published in The Lancet, the dismantling of USAID could cost around 14 million lives by 2030, including 4.5 million children. Source: Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, 28 October 2025.
For months, Sudanese activists, international aid organisations, and the United Nations have been raising the alarm over the humanitarian disaster in El Fasher (western Sudan), which remains under siege by the RSF, supported by Moscow and Dubai. UN experts identified famine among displaced civilians there more than a year ago. Today, an estimated 5–10 million people have fled across Darfur, many seeking refuge in Uganda and Ethiopia. The atrocities committed by the RSF, financed by Abu Dhabi, have repeatedly been described by the international community over the past two years as acts of genocide. Source: taz, 28–31 October 2025.
