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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

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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

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Health

Skyrocketing healthcare costs in Africa driving families into poverty

Girls in Voinjama, Liberia, look at a poster that displays information on Ebola.  Photo: UNICEF/Liberia/Jallanzo

Ebola: A wake-up call for leaders

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Disease exposes the weaknesses of neglected healthcare systems

Workers lay rails at a train station outside Niamey, Niger.  Photo: Ado Youssouf

West Africa: New railway network aims to boost inter-regional trade

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Rail to link Benin, Burkina Faso, Côte d’Ivoire, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria and Togo

An artist’s impression of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam.   Photo: www.grandmillenniumdam.net

Financing Africa’s massive projects

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Innovative bankrolling gains popularity and raises high hopes among key countries

Trainee midwives demonstrating the childbirth process using a birth simulator in Kampala, Uganda.  Photo: UNFPA/Evelyn Kiapi

Improving maternal health in Africa

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Despite progress in some countries, many women and babies still die during childbirth in Africa

The Ebola burial team gets disinfected and can then remove their personal protective equipment safely.

Global response to Ebola crisis "has succeeded"

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Workers build an enclosure at the Mayagba Ebola community care centre construction site in Bombali District, which is among the areas worst affected by the disease in Sierra Leone. Photo: UNICEF/John James

Ebola: UN crisis response mission opens new office in Mali

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Ebola: December 1 target for response may not be met in some areas of West Africa, UN reports

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David Nabarro, Special Envoy of the Secretary-General on Ebola.   UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

EBOLA: This misery must never happen again

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Special Envoy on Ebola Dr. David Nabarro briefing non-governmental organizations (NGOs) at UN Headquarters. UN Photo/Loey Felipe

Ebola: UN special envoy says combating stigma integral to overall crisis response

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Refugees await unloading at a site in Upper Nile state, South Sudan. Photo: UNHCR/Jake Dinneen

South Sudan: Security Council strongly condemns outburst of deadly violence, urges peace

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General Community Health Volunteers (GCHVs), who conduct contact tracing, active case finding, and general Ebola awareness, walking through West Point in Monrovia, Liberia. Photo: UNDP/Morgana Wingard

UN warns of economic hardship in Ebola-hit countries as World Bank agrees finance package

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Head of the UN Mission for Ebola Emergency Response (UNMEER), Anthony Banbury (left) meeting with the President of Liberia Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (to his left) in the capital Monrovia. Photo: UNMEER/Ari Gaitanis

Ebola: UN envoy warns against letting guard down, ‘even for a second’

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