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Bull Elephant in front of Kilimanjaro, Amboseli National Park.

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Africa’s Environmental Vanguard

climate women 40 Years of AMCEN and the Road to 2063.

Secretary-General António Guterres (centre left) briefs reporters on the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025. With him are Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (left) and Li Junhua (centre right), Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, and Bjørg Sandkjær, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.

Sustainable Development Goals

Five years to go: UN sounds alarm on SDG progress as Africa seeks acceleration

Social Protection The new SDG report shows only 35 per cent of targets are on track. More effort needed to unlock progress on the continent.

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.

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UN Peacekeeper honoured for championing gender in Abyei

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Economic Development

Africa shapes the Agenda towards a Just Outcome of the Sevilla Conference

By Liwaaddine Fliss

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

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.