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Children carry water containers through a rural village in Zambia. Across many communities, fetching water remains part of daily life, shaping school attendance, health and opportunity, especially for girls.

Social Protection

Too much, too little, and often unequal

water The African Union has declared 2026 the year of Assuring Sustainable Water Availability and Safe Sanitation Systems. The United Nations Population Fund looks at how floods, drought and fragile systems are reshaping women’s lives across East and Southern Africa.

Generals Opande and Agwai being honored with the Grand Commander of the Order of the Rokel.

Peace and Security

Beyond the Battlefield: A Blueprint for Lasting Peace

Peace & Security

A woman sitting amid a crowd of people looks up to her left while holding a baby wrapped in a light-coloured blanket with a cartoon animal pattern. A woman behind her, to the right of the frame, looks off-camere and is wearing a red, white and blue patterned dress.

Peace and Security

“I arrived with nothing but my life”

Peace & Security Women in South Sudan describe harrowing escape from violence

Heard of cows near a watering hole. © Cheikh Seye/UNIC Dakar

There is no water security without healthy lands