Stories written by Gareth Willmer

SDG Setback ‘Tremendous’ as COVID-19 Accelerates Slide

By Gareth Willmer and Fiona Broom
Crucial global goals to reduce hunger and poverty and curb climate change have gone backwards or stalled, the United Nations Secretary-General warns in a new report, as the COVID-19 outbreak moves from being a health crisis to becoming the “worst human and economic crisis of our lifetimes”.

Africans Charged More Than 3.5 Times the “Affordable” Rate for Mobile Data

By Gareth Willmer
People living in Africa are charged an average of 7.1 per cent of their monthly salary for a gigabyte (GB) of mobile data, more than 3.5 times the threshold considered affordable.


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