The UN is Warning of a Massive Crisis as Desert Locusts Ravage East Africa Mark Leon Goldberg February 26, 2020Desert locusts are killing crops across East Africa and in so doing, threatening the food supply of millions of people.On Tuesday, three top United Nations officials issued a joint public statement urging g...
How Diplomacy Can Save the Nile River Mark Leon Goldberg January 28, 2020Ed note. This first appeared in The ConversationMahemud Tekuya, University of the PacificEthiopia, Sudan and Egypt are a step closer to resolving their disputes over the filling and operation of the Gra...
War Crimes and Ethnic Cleansing Were Committed Against the Rohingya of Myanmar. They Deserve Justice. But How? Mark Leon Goldberg August 15, 2019In August 2017, hundreds of thousands of ethnic Rohingya Muslims from Myanmar fled across the border to Bangladesh. The Rohingya are a minority population that have long faced discrimination by the Buddhist Bur...
Drought in the Horn of Africa is Threatening 15 Million People Mark Leon Goldberg August 5, 2019The Horn of Africa region, which includes parts of Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, is experiencing a severe drought. This region has been particularly vulnerable to droughts in recent years--but the situation this s...
A Progress Report on the Sustainable Development Goals Mark Leon Goldberg July 18, 2019Four years ago, in 2015, the world adopted the Sustainable Development Goals. These are 17 goals around improving health, welfare and the environment that members of the United Nations agreed to achieve by 2030...
How A Census Can Drive Sustainable Development in Africa Mark Leon Goldberg June 3, 2019In 2020 the West African Country of Ghana will conduct a census. This is a massive undertaking. Some 60,000 people will be deployed across the country in an effort to count every single person in Ghana on what ...
How Satellite Data Can Fight Illegal Mining in Ghana Mark Leon Goldberg May 29, 2019Ghana was called the "Gold Coast" for a very specific reason. The West African country's hills and rivers are flush with the precious metal. This has lured international mineral extraction companies to the regi...
A New UN Report Details Food Crises Around the World Joanne Lu April 10, 2019Every year for the last three years, persistent conflict, climate shocks and economic instability have driven more than 100 million people around the world into crisis-levels acute hunger or worse. Last year, ...
How a Social Entrepreneur is Fighting Counterfeit Medicines in the Developing World Mark Leon Goldberg April 3, 2019Not long ago, the social entrepreneur Bright Simons tried and failed to create a platform to pair organic farmers in Ghana with consumers of organic products. But in that failure he made an important discovery ...
