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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.
Sunset.
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

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

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Africa Wired

Angolan elite enjoy the import of expensive cars as a boy looks on while waiting to fill his container with fuel.  Alamy/Zute Lightfoot

Is Africa the new face of rising wealth and opulence?

Big money and lavish lifestyles mark newly-minted millionaires

Aeneas Chuma, the International Labour Organization regional director for Africa. Photo: Abate Damte

Africa grapples with a jobless growth

— Aeneas Chuma

Photo: UNHCR/R. Julliart

Refugees turn to Ethiopia for safety and asylum

Country now hosts the largest number of refugees in Africa

The logo of the International Decade for People of African Descent

African-Americans resettle in Africa

Ghana is the first African country to open its doors to people of African descent from all over the world – but bureaucracy takes a toll
Sam Kahamba Kutesa, President of the United Nations General Assembly’s sixty-ninth session. Photo: Africa Section/Paddy Ilos

If you want to liberate your body, liberate your mind

— Sam Kutesa

Beatrice Yardolo, right, Liberia’s last Ebola patient, walks out of the Chinese Ebola Treatment Unit (ETU) in Monrovia, Liberia, at the beginning of a short ceremony celebrating her survival and release from the ETU on March 5. Photo: UNMEER/Simon Ruf

Ebola: A bumpy road to zero transmission

Liberia, Guinea and Sierra Leone remain vigilant as infections decline in the three countries

Women leaders and representatives of Kenya’s electoral body, the police and the UN sit at the Women’s Situation Room in Nairobi, Kenya that used diplomacy to help reduce electoral violence during Kenya’s last general elections. Photo: Joseph Mathenge

Women’s Situation Room: Africa’s unique approach to reducing electoral violence

Gender Equality

How an innovative real-time intervention in Kenya used women’s strengths to protect voters and help keep the peace before and after voting day

Women, Peace and Security meeting in Addis. Photo: African Union Commission

Looking beyond the rhetoric of an African Union year for women

What women want in 2015 - the Year of Women’s Empowerment

Swearing-in of Members of Parliament and other government officials in Kigali, Rwanda. Photo: Paul Kagame

A celebratory rise in women’s political participation

Gender Equality

Number of women legislators inches upward in Africa

Actors in a skit depicting violence against women. The vice is on the increase in Zimbabwe and other countries in Africa.Photo: Joseph Mathenge

Humiliation: The latest form of gender violence

Gender Equality

Groups ask men and boys to shun the practice

Young women study in a science laboratory at Mogadishu University, Somalia. Photo: Panos/Sven Torfinn

Millions of girls remain out of school

Gender Equality

The gender gap has narrowed, but progress is starting to stall