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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

An administrative building at the new Diamniadio industrial park in Dakar, Senegal. Photo: Reuters/Nellie Peyton

Urban growth a boon for Africa’s industrialization

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The 2017 Economic Report on Africa calls for harnessing urban growth

Salva Dut (left) pumps water from one of the boreholes he has helped drill in South Sudan. Photo: Water for South Sudan

How South Sudan’s ‘lost boy’ brought water to his village

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Salva Dut, a former refugee, has helped drill 300 boreholes in his country

Peter Thomson , the 71st president of the United Nations General Assembly. AR/Eleni Mourdoukoutas

Ocean Conference: Our best and last chance to get things right

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— Peter Thomson

The Sahel has been battered by drought due to climate change.

Africa feeling the heat of climate change

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Affected countries require funds to build more resilient and climate-smart economies

A man sorting a sea of plastic bottles at one of the Wecycler hubs in Lagos, Nigeria. Most plastic litter from cities ends up in oceans.

Plastics pose biggest threat to oceans

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Oceans choking on millions of plastic water bottles, cups, straws and single use plastic bags

Fishermen in Inhaca Island, Mozambique.

Overfishing destroying livelihoods

African waters are powerful magnets for illegal and unregulated foreign fishing operations

An underwater view of fishes and coral reef in the Red Sea near Marsa Alam, Egypt

It is time to save our oceans

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More efforts required to protect marine life and coastal biodiversity from plastic litter

A girl displaced with her family by Boko Haram insurgents from their home on an island in Lake Chad, in Melea village, Lake Region, Chad. Photo: UNICEF/Sokhin

Girls worst affected as conflict keeps more than 25 million children out of school – UNICEF

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In Malawi, children learn about malaria and mosquitoes in school classes. A teacher explains about mosquitoes and malaria. Photo: WHO

Prevent malaria - save lives: WHO push for prevention on World Malaria Day, 25th April

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Image of various covers of the magazine

Teach SDGs in school

— Peter Thomson, president of UN General Assembly

Photo: UNDP

More than two million Liberians register to vote, almost half are women

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Is wastewater the new black gold?

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