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AU Executive Council Opens 48th Ordinary Session with Strong Call for Unity, Sustainable Water Management and Accelerated Continental Integration.
Economic Development

Putting the African state and its institutions at the centre of development

As AU Summit opens, two UN OSAA reports underscore a clear message: no durable peace without strong, legitimate and well resourced states
Olivia Albert leads a youth advocacy group in the Mara region of the United Republic of Tanzania.
Health

Survivors in the lead: How community resistance is key to ending female genital mutilation

Social Protection
Lush mangrove forest lining Mida Creek in Malindi, Kenya.
Climate

The people who live with wetlands know how to protect them

Climate action
The Minister of Energy and Sustainable Development (right) and the Resident Coordinator (centre) meet with Djiboutian solar panel business owners and engineers at the first National Forum on Solar Energy (FNES 2025).
Climate

Promoting Solar Self Consumption for Sustainable Energy in Djibouti

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Editor Picks

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

Vivian van de Perre (center), Deputy Special Representative of the Secretary General for Protection and Operations in the United Nations Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) during her visit with the UK Ambassador to the DRC at Kanyaruchinya IDP Camp, Goma, North Kivu, DRC. 4 July 2024 - Photo ©United Nations/MONUSCO
Social Protection

Vivian van de Perre | Working for peace in the DR Congo

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

Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa

Africa’s free trade area: the journey begins

Free Trade AgreementFree Trade Area— Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary, United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Child with autism spectrum disorder.

Bringing hope to children with autism

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Increased awareness and sharing of experiences help families to cope

Liberia’s Vice president, Jewel Howard Taylor, opens the country’s first school for autistic children. (bottom) A desk in the classroom. Agnes Fallah Kamara

How I set up Liberia’s first school for autistic children

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Community activist debunks cultural myths about autism

In Torit, South Sudan, the UN Mine Action Service (UNMAS) carries out mechanical and manual demining exercises.    UN Photo/Martine Perret

IEDs: tackling terrorists’ weapon of war

Improvised Explosive Devices are cheap and easy to manufacture

Benedict Faustine Kikove

An ‘ambassador’ for people’s rights

31-year-old Tanzanian mobilizing for positive social change
Mohamed Orman Bangura

A legacy of youth empowerment

Meet 33-year-old Sierra Leone’s youth affairs minister

Christian Saunders, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Supply Chain Management

Africans can do business with the UN

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— Christian Saunders, UN Assistant Secretary-General, Supply Chain Management

Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula

Reshaping the forces

Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula

South African climate activists. Photo: Ashraf Hendricks /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images

Taking action on climate change

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World leaders attending the Climate Action Summit at the UN in New York in September 2019 to bring concrete, realistic plans to reduce greenhouse gas emissions

Bamboo bikes on display.

Young Africans create green businesses

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The youth are the driving force for action on climate and the environment.

A student holding an SDG badge (top). Students holding vegetables from the school garden (left). Brian (WEYE Clean Energy) displays a bag of briquettes (right). Photo: Solomon Musisi

Ugandan students turn waste to wealth

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St. Kizito High School students earn money from recycling

A farmer in Senegal.

Africa is leapfrogging into digital agriculture

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