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Zainab Gbla: The Peacekeeper who planted seeds of hope wins UN Woman Police Officer of the Year award

Chief Superintendent Zainab Gbla, a Sierra Leonean working with the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Abyei, is transforming lives in one of Africa's most fragile regions.

Designer Sarah Diouf, with some of her Tongoro Couture designs.

Tongoro: Africa’s Fashion Renaissance

Africa Day Fashion designer Sarah Diouf brings “Made in Africa” to the world stage.

Secretary-General António Guterres

The Secretary-General Message on Africa Day

Victor Audu/Office of the Youth Envoy.

Gender Equality

Africa Day 2025: The Africa our youth and women want

As the continent reflects on justice and reparations, its greatest promise lies in the leadership, resilience, and the rising power of its women and youth.

A Village Health Worker holds a pack of oral contraceptives at a health facility in Mokhotlong, where community-based distribution plays a vital role in improving access to family planning services.

Lesotho’s Family Planning Revolution: A quiet success the world should notice

health How Lesotho transformed Family Planning access through community action, commitment, and resilience.

Op-Eds

Beyond compensation: Reparatory justice as a structural economic imperative for Africa

In 2025, the African Union has set a powerful and necessary theme: “Justice for Africans and People of African Descent Through Reparations.” It is a call not just for reflection, but for clarity, courage, and a strategic reframing of the reparations discourse.

By Cristina Duarte

Conserving Gola forest: Sierra Leone and Liberia unite for peace, sustainability

By Seraphine Wakana

22 billion reasons for Africa to invest in digital

Agricultural value chains for a crisis-driven world.

By Pamela Coke-Hamilton

In The Spotlight: The Permanent Forum on People of African Descent

Gorée Island, off the coast of Dakar, stands as a powerful symbol of the transatlantic slave trade.

UN forum tackles slavery reparations for Africa, people of African descent

The calls for reparatory justice can no longer be ignored, speakers at the United Nations Permanent Forum on People of African Descent said during the forum’s fourth meeting.

Amb. Martin Kimani, the new Chair of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent.

Advocating for the justice and rights of people of African descent

Social Protection Amb. Martin Kimani, the new Chair of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent lists economic empowerment, digital equity and solidarity as priorities.

Diallo Sumbry

Revolutionist returnees: Fulfilling dreams, finding freedom

Genealogy African Americans have a long history of going back to the motherland.

A woman and a woman.

Partners in time: Reconnecting African Americans with their tribes of origin

Genealogy Ancestry Geneticist Rick Kittles and Gina Page helping families put together missing pieces of their heritage through African Ancestry.