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Economic Development

Africa has the plans, but a decisive decade demands delivery

debt
Polycarp Otieno, Music Entrepreneur and Founding member of Sauti Sol – a Kenya Afro Pop band.
Youth

From studio to industry: Unlocking the job-creation power of Africa's creatives

Social Protection With the sector projected to reach $200 billion by 2030, artists, entrepreneurs and policymakers at ADIF 2026 examined how investment can turn artistic talent into economic transformation
Woman farmers harvest tea leaves at a tea plantation in Nyaruguru, Kibeho District, Rwanda. Tea is one of Rwanda’s major agricultural export commodities.
Economic Development

Feeding Africa: Women farmers key to ending hunger

Social Protection Building resilient food systems in Africa begin with inclusive agriculture
Participants at a youth event in Addis.
Economic Development

Boosting women’s digital entrepreneurship in Burkina Faso, Congo, Ethiopia & Namibia

UNECA has launched a new initiative to equip women entrepreneurs with digital and financial skills while helping governments build more inclusive digital economies

Editor Picks

Madina Kimaro stands with the young WASH ambassadors at Mtongani Primary School.
Climate

Madina Kimaro: Empowering young minds to protect the planet

Children watering a garden.
Climate

Africa’s water future requires a new mindset

Mariam Solika
Climate

Mariam Solika: Empowering Young Voices Through Hope Driven Media

An expert panel segment during the Fifty-eighth session of the Economic Commission for Africa Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, held from 28 March to 3 April 2026 in Tangier, Morocco.
Economic Development

Financing Africa’s digital Future: Institutions push for smarter, coordinated funding

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

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

climateUN 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.
Kennedy Odede

From Kibera to the world: Kennedy Odede wins 2025 UN Mandela Prize

Social ProtectionjobsThe Kenyan social entrepreneur founded an organization which serves 4 million people in informal settlements.
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.

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

Social ProtectionThe new SDG report shows only 35 per cent of targets are on track. More effort needed to unlock progress on the continent.
Bull Elephant in front of Kilimanjaro, Amboseli National Park.

Africa’s Environmental Vanguard

climatewomen40 Years of AMCEN and the Road to 2063.
A view of participants attending the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development (FfD4).

Africa shapes the Agenda towards a Just Outcome of the Sevilla Conference

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

It’s time for Africa to embrace nuclear energy

energy
The African Union's first Debt Conference brought together Heads of State, senior policymakers, financial experts, and international partners on Africa's debt challenges and long-term sustainability.

Africa's debt dilemma: Turning crisis into reform

AU leaders push for reforms to fix global debt systems and strengthen fiscal sovereignty.
WAVE-Gambia organising social cohesion dialogues with victims in Jambur Village_ West Coast Region_ The Gambia_ 2020. ©WAVE-Gambia

From stigma to strength in The Gambia

Healing the wounds of witch-hunt victims in The Gambia. For more than 40 years, the UN Voluntary Fund for Victims of Torture has been supporting survivors on their road to recovery. In The Gambia, one of the Fund’s recipients provides healing and a path to redress.
Fashion show.

Building Africa’s trade future, together

Social ProtectionITC hosts Partnerships for Africa Day in Geneva to scale African-led trade solutions.
Chantal sits at her sewing machine.

The farming phone line ringing for results in Rwanda

Rwanda
Germaine Tuyisenge Müller, Global Health Researcher, Author, Educator and Survivor, speaks during the 31st commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda on the International Day of Reflection on the Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda at UNHQ, in New York.

It was just words until it wasn’t: A survivor’s call to counter hate speech before it’s too late

Peace & SecurityOn the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, survivor Germaine Tuyisenge Müller reflects on how words fueled Rwanda’s darkest chapter—and why today’s growing wave of hate speech must be challenged with urgency, education, and empathy.
A student.

Restoring Africa’s knowledge sovereignty is key to sustainable development

Social ProtectionEpistemic injustice happens when a people’s way of knowing, teaching and understanding the world are sidelined, discredited, or erased.