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In their words: Africa’s young innovators and advocates on the climate crisis

Africa’s young innovators and advocates speak on the climate crisis — and our best hope to address it

Youth & Climate change

Putting young people at the forefront of climate action and helping them realize their full potential

TICAD 8: UNDP welcomes new investments in Africa as Japan announces additional measures to accelerate recovery and economic growth

A total of $30 billion in financial contributions and a new US$130 million facility were announced

UNDP: More spent on fossil fuel subsidies than fighting poverty

Fossil fuels Global warming

The new 'Don’t Choose Extinction' campaign aims to raise awareness of the detrimental effects of fossil fuel subsidies on people and planet

The regional stabilization project for the Lake Chad Basin is training women in raising awareness.

Violent extremism costs African countries $97 billion each year

Violent Extremism

18-country study examines the impact of attacks on infrastructure and physical damage, formal and informal economies, and of 'security spending' on development processes.

In the Somali region of Ethiopia, recurring droughts and locust invasions were already threatening food security. With COVID-19, the socio-economic impacts being felt across Ethiopia are wide-ranging and serious, with the potential to become severe, the r

UNDP: In Ethiopia, pandemic struck amid slowing growth, locust invasion, and disease outbreaks

The economic contraction projected for 2020 as a result of the pandemic would disproportionately affect the poor and vulnerable, small and informal businesses, and small-scale agricultural producers

COVID-19 could prove “disastrous” for Zimbabwe, UNDP study finds

Targeted measures and a crackdown on illicit financial flows will help

Volunteers have provided briefings, along with masks, gloves, and sanitizing products

Community leaders fight COVID-19 alongside UNDP in Sudan

Africa COVID-19

Mr. Boss Mustapha, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, speaking at the launch of the UN COVID-19 Basket Fund

In Nigeria, COVID-19 threatens to hit three fragile northeastern states hardest, UNDP studies find

Africa COVID-19

Unemployed taxi drivers during the Ebola crisis in Liberia in 2014.

COVID-19: Looming crisis threatens to devastate economies & ramp up inequality

Africa COVID-19

UNDP seeking unprecedented COVID-19 support