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Environmental activist and entrepreneur Babacar Thiaw
Climate

Zero waste, big impact

Climate action How one surf club in Senegal is riding the wave of environmental change.
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Climate

Not Just Another Beautiful Sunset: Why the Ocean Matters More Than You May Think

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UN Secretary-General António Guterres (right) and UN General Assembly President Philémon Yang (centre) participate in the High-Level Political Dialogue on Reparatory Justice during the Africa Dialogue Series 2025 at UN Headquarters in New York.
Human Rights

Justice can’t wait: Africa’s push for reparative justice takes center stage

Zainab Gbala
Peace and Security

Zainab Gbla: The Peacekeeper who planted seeds of hope wins UN Woman Police Officer of the Year award

Chief Superintendent Zainab Gbla, a Sierra Leonean working with the UN Peacekeeping Mission in Abyei, is transforming lives in one of Africa's most fragile regions.

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

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Economic Development

Financial, fiscal, and budgetary planning crucial for African cities

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Economic Development

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

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Health

Skyrocketing healthcare costs in Africa driving families into poverty

Wide view of the opening session of the 6th UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) Youth Forum. UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

At Youth Forum, UN calls on young people to help realize a better future for all

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Security Council adopts resolution on new president of Gambia. Photo credit: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

Guterres commends ECOWAS for role in Gambia’s peaceful transition

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Secretary-General António Guterres meets President of Uganda Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at the 28th summit of the African Union (AU), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Photo credit: UN Photo/Antonio Fiorente

If we fail in Africa, we will fail in the world, António Guterres tells UN staff

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Children have been killed, raped and abducted in a series of recent attacks in South Sudan’s Unity State. Photo: UNICEF/Porter

Killings, rapes in South Sudan continued 'unabated' after July 2016 violence, UN reports

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Putting a human face to information technologies

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UN Secretary-general Ban Ki-moon

THE SECRETARY-GENERAL -- MESSAGE ON AFRICA INDUSTRIALIZATION DAY 20 November 2016

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Sergio Vieira de Mello

AFRICAWATCH

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Elections have spread in Africa, but democracy remains weak. Photo : ©UN / P. Sudhakaran

Poverty 'stalls' further spread of democracy

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At AU launch, from left: Thabo Mbeki (South Africa), Kofi Annan (UN), Joaquim Chissano (Mozambique), Gnassingbé Eyadéma (Togo), Muammar el-Qaddafi (Libya).

The African Union is launched

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Hopes for a Union responsive to the people of Africa

Crowded road in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: There are too few roads in Africa, and they are deteriorating. Photo : ©UN / Betty Press

Building an efficient road network

Africatransportation

Public-private partnerships hold the key to regional infrastructure