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

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

Social Protection On this Africa Day of School Feeding, what are some of the ways we can fund these programmes?
Residents of the Kanyaruchinya camp near Goma flee on Sunday - fighting has overwhelmed the capital of North Kivu province.
Peace and Security

Caught in the crossfire: The human toll of conflict in eastern DRC

DRC WFP calls for international intervention as displacement and hunger reach crisis levels.
Grammy winner and UNICEF ambassador, Angélique Kidjo, shares insights on blending cultures, empowering women and youth, and her ongoing mission to bring Africa’s voice to the world.
Youth

Angélique Kidjo on music, activism, and empowering Africa’s next generation

UNICEF A conversation with Angélique Kidjo on the power of music, Africa’s future, and breaking boundaries.
A car involved in an accident.
Economic Development

Road Safety: Digital technology to help prevent accidents

Digitalization Experts explore how data-driven approaches, advanced analytics, and emerging technologies can help save lives.

Editor Picks

Samuel Jepi, National Forest Initiative, outside of the NFI camp near Kupiano, Papua New Guinea. May 23, 2019
Climate

Creating credible carbon market in Africa

Fresh source.
Economic Development

Streamlining Egypt’s food value chain through technology

Ernest Rwamucyo (Right), Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations
Human Rights

Lessons post the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda: we must speak out against discrimination and prejudice

Epsy Barr - Chair, Forum on People of African Descent.
Economic Development

We must confront the legacy of slavery, tackle systemic racism

Image of various covers of the magazine

Africa Books: The Rise of Africa’s Middle Class

An official checks data from an internet-based water monitoring device at a borehole in Basbedo, Burkina Faso. Photo: Panos/Andrew McConnell

The Internet of everything water

technology

Local communities boosting water monitoring systems using the Internet

A Kenyan teacher checks his mobile phone while guarding his cattle. Photo: Panos/Sven Torfinn

Africa’s digital rise hooked on innovation

technology

Engineers are adapting technology to suit the specific needs and dynamics of the continent

A farmer in the drought-affected area of Senegal watering plants. Photo: UN Photo/Carl Purcell

Paris Agreement on climate change: One year later, how is Africa faring?

environment

Several African countries have begun implementing climate resilience activities

The Gambia’s former president Yahya Jammeh (in white) prepares to depart from Banjul airport to exile in Guinea Bissau on January 21, 2017. Photo: Reuters/Thierry Gouegnon

Gambia’s democracy survives political turbulence

elections

Peaceful transfer of power trending on the continent

Fatou Bensouda, ICC Prosecutor (left) and James Stewart, ICC Deputy Prosecutor. Photo: ICC

ICC: Beyond the threats of withdrawal

elections

African countries in dilemma over whether to leave or support the International Criminal Court

A retired couple go through their financial files. Photo: AMO/George Philipas

Pension funds, insurance companies as key drivers of regional integration

economic development

Survey shows regional institutional investor base expanding due to favourable demographics

Baby elephants “play soccer” as they graze at the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust in Nairobi, Kenya. Photo: AMO/Stephen Mudiari Kasabuli

Conservationists take aim at poachers

Conservation

Newly-created commission will gather evidence to help dismantle organized wildlife crimes

Fumani Mthembi, one of the founders of Pele Energy Group. Photo: Tsidi Bishop

Young South Africans investing in lucrative renewable energy sector

business

Pele Energy Group joins the league of independent power producers

A flooded road. Photo: AMO/B. Karlie

Disaster insurance against climate change attracts African countries

economic development

Innovative risk-pooling initiative will give a lifeline to countries in distress

Abdoulaye Mar Dieye, head of UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Africa. Photo: UNDP/Freya Morales

Global economic gravity rapidly pulling towards Africa

economic development

— Abdoulaye Mar Dieye

An advertisement for a mobile phone money transfer company hangs over stalls of fruit and vegetables at a covered market in Kigali, Rwanda. Photo: Panos/Sven Torfinn

Africa’s quest for a cashless economy gains momentum

SDG14economic development

Insufficient financial inclusion, unbanked masses and financial literacy are increasingly attracting investors