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Financing is crucial for building critical infrastructure such as transport, telecommunications and roads, like this one at Kinshasa Airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank

ADDIS: Africa's economic transformation in focus at UN development financing conference

Des travailleurs du parc industriel de Sonapi, à Port-au-Prince, en Haïti. Photo : ONU / Eskinder Debebe

ADDIS: UN agency stresses role of partnerships to finance inclusive, sustainable industrial development

Above, people carry drinking water in Bangladesh

ADDIS: UN conference opens with call for 'reboot' of development finance

Africa development

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. UN Photo/Amanda Voisard (file)

UN chief condemns deadly suicide bombing in Chad

UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi. Photo: UNCTAD

New UN report finds drop in global foreign direct investment in 2014

Africa development

Photo: MINUSMA/Marco Dormino

At Security Council, UN troop commanders recount challenges of modern peacekeeping

Africa UN Security Council

Child labour on family farms should be addressed in an appropriate and context-sensitive way that respects local values and family circumstances. Photo: FAO/J. Thompson

New UN guidebook seeks to prevent child labour practices in agriculture

The remains of more than two-thousand persons cremated during the height of the Ebola outbreak were brought to an enclosed Palava Hut in the Liberian National Cemetery in Disco Hill, and will stay in this special place until national consultations determi

Lowest weekly total of Ebola cases in 2015 reported, UN health agency says

A checkpoint in Kidal, Mali. Photo: MINUSMA/Blagoje Grujic

Deploring ongoing violence, UN rights expert urges Malian parties to work together towards lasting peace