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Ending digital violence is Africa’s next chapter in equality for women and girl
Gender Equality

Ending digital violence is Africa’s next chapter in equality for women and girl

Social Protection “Digital violence against women and girls is not inevitable; it is preventable.” UN Women’s Nyaradzayi Gumbonzvanda on this year’s 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-based Violence.
16 Days of Activism on Ending Violence Against Women and Girls 2025.
Gender Equality

The promise and peril of Africa's tech revolution for women and girls

Social Protection “When women withdraw from online spaces to protect themselves, we lose their voices in politics, journalism, and civic debate. Technology-facilitated gender-based violence not only denies women their most basic human rights, but it also robs our societies of their contributions” The UN Deputy Secretary-General reflects on this year’s 16 Days of Activism to End Gender-based Violence campaign.
Amina Alidi: From local voice in Malawi to global advocate
Youth

Amina Alidi: From local voice in Malawi to global advocate

Social Protectiondebt Bringing the power of community-rooted leadership to the global stage.
Five young Africans named among 2025 UN Young Leaders for SDGs.
Technology & Innovation

Five young Africans named among 2025 UN Young Leaders for SDGs

Digitalization From Nigeria to Zimbabwe, Africa’s new generation of changemakers joins 17 global youth leaders driving progress on sustainable development.

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The Town Hall by the UN in partnership with the BBC’s Focus on Africa brought together ministers, policymakers, and young leaders to debate one of the most pressing issues of our time: artificial intelligence (AI).
Technology & Innovation

Africa and Artificial Intelligence: The promise, the risk, and the path forward

Chief Kachindamoto lit a fire for justice and equality.
Social Protection

She lit a fire

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

Trucks loaded with goods had been waiting for weeks to cross the Côte d’Ivoire-Ghana borders

Africans urged to trade more with each other

AfricaFree Trade

A 2021 study by the UN Economic Commission for Africa on regional integration says EU takes biggest share of African trade.

Bernadette Gomina is one of two women elected in the first round of legislative elections in the CAR

Meet Bernadette Gomina, a pioneering parliamentarian in Central African Republic

Africa Gender CSW

A former midwife, Ms. Gomina submitted several project proposals to international organizations, and built a Women’s Centre in Bayanga with MINUSCA’s support.

Millie Odhiambo has served as a Member of Parliament since 2008.

Rewriting Kenya’s laws with Millie Odhiambo

Africa Gender CSW

Millie Odhiambo, 55, is one of Kenya’s fearless politicians.

Dr. Mzuri Issa at an African Women Leaders Network Tanzania Chapter Steering Committee Meeting.

Mzuri Issa, breaking down social barriers to women’s leadership in Tanzania

Africa Gender CSW

Ms. Issa is also at the forefront of pushing for legal reforms that will ensure women compete effectively for leadership positions on an equal standing with men.

Farm attendants working in Moshi, Tanzania.

New tool to measure countries’ SDG performance

AfricaUNCTAD

UNCTAD’s Productive Capacities Index will track development, help countries transform economies

An image of a construction worker

Are we on track for a Green Recovery? Not yet

AfricaGreen Recovery

A new report by UNEP and Oxford University of Oxford paints a not so rosy picture

Construction Workers

Green shoots: Are COVID-19 recovery funds helping the environment?

AfricaEconomic Recovery

Researchers found green spending is concentrated in wealthier countries and populations, threatening to reinforce dangerous pre-pandemic inequities.

Only Together

UN launches new campaign, Only Together, to support global vaccine equity call

COVID19 COVAX
Female frontline healthcare workers in Nigeria

Women in Leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 World

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March in support of International Women's Day in Port Moresby in Papua New Guinea

Devastatingly pervasive: 1 in 3 women globally experience violence

Gender Based Violence

Younger women among those most at risk: WHO

Mr. Pokawa and his friends went from village to village, town to town, city to city.

Sierra Leone: Two friends walk 500 km in campaign against rape

Sierra LeoneGender-based violence

Sierra Leonean Hindola Pokawa, 43, and his American friend, Dustyn Montgomery, 23, walked for 21 days through different towns to raise awareness about gender-based violence.

Freeing women and girls from violence in Mozambique

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