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Social Protection

African youth voices at UN High-Level Political Forum

youthSocial Protection ‘Empowered youth are Africa’s unstoppable agents of change’
Secretary General Musonda Mumba speaks at a press conference ahead of the #WetlandsCOP15, which officially kicks off today in Victoria Falls.
Climate

As Wetlands COP15 opens in Zimbabwe, it's time to rethink how we value wetlands

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Christopher Seagateng is the co-founder and chairperson of BW JOBS 4 GRADUATES and the Deputy Secretary-General of the Pan-African Youth Union.
Social Protection

African youth make an impact at UN High-Level Political Forum

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Secretary-General António Guterres (at podium) delivers a special address on Climate Action “A Moment of Opportunity: Supercharging the New Energy Era”.
Climate

UN Chief urges just and inclusive energy transition as investment gaps persist

climate UN Secretary-General António Guterres is calling for coordinated global action to close energy investment gaps, reform climate finance, and ensure developing countries, especially those in Africa, rich in solar potential but short on investment, are full participants in the clean energy.

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Secretary-General António Guterres (centre left) briefs reporters on the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals Report 2025. With him are Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (left) and Li Junhua (centre right), Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs, and Bjørg Sandkjær, Assistant Secretary-General for Policy Coordination in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs.
Sustainable Development Goals

Five years to go: UN sounds alarm on SDG progress as Africa seeks acceleration

Bull Elephant in front of Kilimanjaro, Amboseli National Park.
Climate

Africa’s Environmental Vanguard

Two electrical engineers are seen in silhouette as they work on a power transformer.
Energy

It’s time for Africa to embrace nuclear energy

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

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

Des travailleurs du parc industriel de Sonapi, à Port-au-Prince, en Haïti. Photo : ONU / Eskinder Debebe

ADDIS: UN agency stresses role of partnerships to finance inclusive, sustainable industrial development

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Financing is crucial for building critical infrastructure such as transport, telecommunications and roads, like this one at Kinshasa Airport in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Photo: Simone D. McCourtie/World Bank

ADDIS: Africa's economic transformation in focus at UN development financing conference

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Amadou Sy, Director of the Africa Growth Institute at the Brookings Institution

Africa has a “window of opportunity” to avoid a new debt trap

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Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. UN Photo/Amanda Voisard (file)

UN chief condemns deadly suicide bombing in Chad

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Above, people carry drinking water in Bangladesh

ADDIS: UN conference opens with call for 'reboot' of development finance

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UNCTAD Secretary-General Mukhisa Kituyi. Photo: UNCTAD

New UN report finds drop in global foreign direct investment in 2014

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Africa Books

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A shopper buys Snow beer at a supermarket in Yichang city, central Chinas Hubei province.  AP Images /Yi chang

Africans also investing in China

African countries have poured over $14 billion in investments

Pali Lehohla, Statistician-General of Statistics South Africa.  ITU/ R. Farrell

African statistics have come of age

Cashew nut processing and production factory in Sotria B Sarl, Banfora, Burkina Faso.   Alamy/Joerg Boethling

Cashing in on the cashew nuts boom

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Local processing could boost revenue in Côte d’Ivoire

A MicroEnsure agent talks to microfinance clients about microinsurance at a group meeting in Nairobi, Kenya.  Alamy/David Dorey

Microfinance: Good for the poor?

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To lift the poor from poverty, create jobs, not loans, critics say