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Maria Sábado Horta Fidalgo, known to everyone as Mãezinha, is more than just a fishmonger. She is a boat owner, community leader, advocate for sustainable fishing, and a woman determined to chart her own course through hardship and hope.

Climate

Mãezinha of Rincão: A woman of the sea, a voice for her community

In the coastal town of Rincão, Maria Sábado Horta Fidalgo combines local fishing knowledge with small-scale entrepreneurship to support her family and strengthen her community’s economy.

The African Union's first Debt Conference brought together Heads of State, senior policymakers, financial experts, and international partners on Africa's debt challenges and long-term sustainability.

Economic Development

Africa's debt dilemma: Turning crisis into reform

AU leaders push for reforms to fix global debt systems and strengthen fiscal sovereignty.

WAVE-Gambia organising social cohesion dialogues with victims in Jambur Village_ West Coast Region_ The Gambia_ 2020. ©WAVE-Gambia

From stigma to strength in The Gambia

Healing the wounds of witch-hunt victims in The Gambia. For more than 40 years, the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture has been supporting survivors on their road to recovery. In The Gambia, one of the Fund’s recipients provides healing and a path to redress.

Grammy winner and UNICEF ambassador, Angélique Kidjo, shares insights on blending cultures, empowering women and youth, and her ongoing mission to bring Africa’s voice to the world.

Angélique Kidjo on music, activism, and empowering Africa’s next generation

UNICEF A conversation with Angélique Kidjo on the power of music, Africa’s future, and breaking boundaries.

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It was just words until it wasn’t: A survivor’s call to counter hate speech before it’s too late

Op-Eds

It’s time for Africa to embrace nuclear energy

By Claver Gatete

Restoring Africa’s knowledge sovereignty is key to sustainable development

Epistemic injustice happens when a people’s way of knowing, teaching and understanding the world are sidelined, discredited, or erased.

By Eyob Balcha Gebremariam

Not just another beautiful sunset: Why the Ocean matters more than you may think

By Amanda Serumaga

In The Spotlight: Climate Action

Senegalese women transforming dumpsite into urban gardens.

Gender Equality

The Senegalese women transforming polluted spaces into urban gardens

climate A story of resilience, innovation, food security and climate change mitigation.

A bone-dry part of the River Niger at Mopti, a major town in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Mali.

Floods and droughts are two sides of the same crisis

Climate action Wetlands can fix both.

Maguette Ba is a young climate activist, who advocates for a clean environment in her home country of Senegal.

Climate youth advocate making a difference

Senegal Maguette Ba, a young climate activist, advocates for a clean environment in her home country of Senegal. At 23, she wants to protect natural resources, raise awareness among young people and propose solutions suited to African realities.

Mangroves, Madagascar. As part of the Great Blue Wall initiative, the goal is to safeguard 30% of the countries' Exclusive Economic Zones by 2030, focusing on achieving a net gain in critical ecosystems such as mangroves, corals, and seagrasses.

Economic Development

Innovative financing to unlock Africa’s Blue Economy

debt Countries can leverage on creative financial tools such as debt swaps, green bonds, blues bonds, and others, to unlock resources needed to protect marine ecosystems, drive economic growth, and support climate adaptation.