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Squadron Leader Sharon Mwinsote Syme of Ghana, 2024 Military Gender Advocate of the Year.
Peace and Security

UN Peacekeeper honoured for championing gender in Abyei

Ghana Squadron Leader Sharon Syme of Ghana is the 2024 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award winner.
Squadron Leader Sharon Mwinsote Syme of Ghana, 2024 Military Gender Advocate of the Year.
Peace and Security

UN Peacekeeper honoured for championing gender in Abyei

Ghana Squadron Leader Sharon Syme of Ghana is the 2024 United Nations Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award winner.
Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission
Peace and Security

ECOWAS at 50: Our focus remains peace, security and prosperity

Social Protection Dr. Omar Alieu Touray, President of the ECOWAS Commission, says the body is stronger now than ever.
Secretary-General António Guterres

The Secretary-General Message on Africa Day

Editor Picks

School meals provide essential safety nets for poor children and their families.
Health

Debt-for-Food swaps: Innovative financing for school meals in Africa

Nairobi City.
Economic Development

Financial, fiscal, and budgetary planning crucial for African cities

Inside a factory.
Economic Development

New UN report: Africa's economy to improve in 2025 despite global stagnation

A woman.
Health

Skyrocketing healthcare costs in Africa driving families into poverty

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

Tongoro: Africa’s Fashion Renaissance

Africa DayFashion designer Sarah Diouf brings “Made in Africa” to the world stage.
Victor Audu/Office of the Youth Envoy.

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

healthHow Lesotho transformed Family Planning access through community action, commitment, and resilience.
A man looks out to sea from the Door of No Return on Gorée Island, Senegal—a solemn memorial to the millions of Africans taken from their homeland during the transatlantic slave trade. The island stands today as a symbol of remembrance and resilience.

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.
Senegalese women transforming dumpsite into urban gardens.

The Senegalese women transforming polluted spaces into urban gardens

climateA story of resilience, innovation, food security and climate change mitigation.
The World Health Organization (WHO) certified Egypt as ‘malaria-free’, marking a significant public health milestone for a country with more than 100 million inhabitants.

World Malaria Day marked with renewed zeal to end the disease

In 2025, the WHO and partners campaign called ‘Malaria Ends with Us: Reinvest, Reimagine, Reignite,’ seeks to re-energize efforts at all levels to accelerate the elimination of malaria. Egypt is a good example.
Secretary-General António Guterres (second from right) hosts a meeting on Climate and Just Transition convened with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (not pictured), President of Brazil.

Ahead of COP30, Guterres urges bold climate action and investment

UN Secretary-General António Guterres calls on world leaders to commit to ambitious climate action and significantly increase investment in renewables in Africa.
Gola Rainforest spans the border between Liberia and Sierra Leone.

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

AUDA-NEPAD gender advocates

Gender advocates to push for social protection and economic empowerment at G20

Gender EmpowermentOther priorities include combating gender-based violence, bridging the digital divide.
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 ProtectionAmb. Martin Kimani, the new Chair of the Permanent Forum of People of African Descent lists economic empowerment, digital equity and solidarity as priorities.
Africa’s digital ecosystem is becoming more robust by the day

22 billion reasons for Africa to invest in digital

agricultureAgricultural value chains for a crisis-driven world.