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In 2023 UNDP in Uganda added its first electric car into their fleet as a major step forward for Uganda’s transition to a clean energy future.
Economic Development

Developing a thriving e-vehicles value chain in Africa

Social Protection African countries should join hands to make the most of their own resources and build a formidable electric vehicle ecosystem that could help fast-track realisation of SDGs.
School meals provide essential safety nets for poor children and their families.
Health

Debt-for-Food swaps: Innovative financing for school meals in Africa

Social Protection On this Africa Day of School Feeding, what are some of the ways we can fund these programmes?
Residents of the Kanyaruchinya camp near Goma flee on Sunday - fighting has overwhelmed the capital of North Kivu province.
Peace and Security

Caught in the crossfire: The human toll of conflict in eastern DRC

DRC WFP calls for international intervention as displacement and hunger reach crisis levels.
Grammy winner and UNICEF ambassador, Angélique Kidjo, shares insights on blending cultures, empowering women and youth, and her ongoing mission to bring Africa’s voice to the world.
Youth

Angélique Kidjo on music, activism, and empowering Africa’s next generation

UNICEF A conversation with Angélique Kidjo on the power of music, Africa’s future, and breaking boundaries.

Editor Picks

Samuel Jepi, National Forest Initiative, outside of the NFI camp near Kupiano, Papua New Guinea. May 23, 2019
Climate

Creating credible carbon market in Africa

Fresh source.
Economic Development

Streamlining Egypt’s food value chain through technology

Ernest Rwamucyo (Right), Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Rwanda to the United Nations
Human Rights

Lessons post the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda: we must speak out against discrimination and prejudice

Epsy Barr - Chair, Forum on People of African Descent.
Economic Development

We must confront the legacy of slavery, tackle systemic racism

The breaking of dawn over planet Earth, seen from the International Space Station. Photo Credits: Scott Kelly/NASA

UN forum to bring ‘big space data’ benefits to disaster response in Africa

Humanitarian Aid
Destroyed cars in Mogadishu after the last deadly attack carried out by Al-Shabab just over three weeks ago. Photo Credits: Stuart Price/ UN Photo

Somalis ‘will not be deterred’ by Friday’s terror attacks – UN Chief

Peace and Security
A refugee family from Cameroon sits outside their shelter at Adagom settlement in Ogoja province, south-east Nigeria. Photo Credits: Roqan Ojomo/ UNHCR

Fleeing violence, Cameroonian refugee arrivals in Nigeria pass 30,000, reports UN refugee agency

Migrants and Refugees
A woman stands in front of her home, which was demolished by local militia during violence in Tripoli. Many people, forced to flee their homes, are returning after the ceasefire. Photo credits: UNHCR/Tarik Argaz

Ceasefire holds in Tripoli, but core problems remain, says UN Libya mission chief

Peace and Security
Learning that handwashing is among the best ways to protect yourself against Ebola, school children in Beni, DR Congo visit a UNICEF hand-washing station at their school. Photo Credits: UNICEF/Thomas Nybo

Ebola outbreak in DR Congo conflict zone ‘remains dangerous and unpredictable’ – UN chiefs

Africa ebola health
Photo Credits:Thomas Nybo. On 12 September 2018 in Beni, a UNICEF staff member discusses the best way to protect yourself against Ebola in a conversation with young people living in Beni, Democratic Republic of Congo, after a recent Ebola outbreak.

Frontline workers vaccinated in Uganda in bid to halt spread of deadly Ebola

health
Photo credits: UNICEF/Karel Prinsloo. Children walk back to school after competing in an inter-school athletics competition northern Cameroon, 2017.

UN chief condemns student abductions in north-west Cameroon

human rights
UN rights chief warns of potential ‘witch-hunt’ as Tanzanian official plans to track and arrest LGBT people

UN rights chief warns of potential ‘witch-hunt’ as Tanzanian official plans to track and arrest LGBT people

human rights
Trees donated by the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan, UNMISS are planted at the Exodus Junior Academy in the capital, Juba. (October 2018) Photo Credits: UNMISS/Eric Kanalstein

FROM THE FIELD: Green shoots of peace in South Sudan

climate change
UN Photo/Ilyas Ahmed Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan (center), the President of South West State of Somalia addresses journalists during a joint press conference in Baidoa. He is flanked by Nicholas Haysom (left), the UN Secretary-General's Special Representati

‘Stand-off’ between Somalia’s federal, state authorities could ‘paralyze’ progress – UN envoy

Somalia
Photo: Johannes Ortner

Africa’s bumpy road to sustainable energy

Environmental initiatives reduce pollution and embrace renewable energy

Young girls from Mtakataka Secondary School in the District of Dedza, Malawi. Photo: UN Women/Karin Schermbrucker

A letter to girls from Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, UN Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of UN Women, on International Day of the Girl Child