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Sustainable Development Goals

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

Social Protection The new SDG report shows only 35 per cent of targets are on track. More effort needed to unlock progress on the continent.
Africa's youngest generation holds the key to a bold new future.
Sustainable Development Goals

Summit of the Future and a new Poem for Africa

Africa Embracing Digital Transformation to Realize Our Potential
A girl
Sustainable Development Goals

Africa is on the cusp of an innovation revolution

Fintech Says award-winning fintech prodigy, Salton Massally.
Partnership brings the fire for human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals.
Sustainable Development Goals

Partnership brings the fire for human rights and the Sustainable Development Goals

SDG A festival in Eswatini provided the perfect backdrop to encourage audiences to learn about and protect their human rights.

Editor Picks

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

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Sustainable Development Goals

I want every child to be passionate about education

Pedestrians First activists in Lusaka on early morning walk to advocate for safer walkways and zebra
Economic Development

Sharing the road: Connecting streets to people

Committed advocates working to end violence against women and girls in their country.
Sustainable Development Goals

Niger: Young Nigeriens call for an end to child marriage 

Logged plantation in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. Photo: AMO/David Larsen

Light at the end of the tunnel

MDGs

MDG 7: Ensure environmental sustainability

Together in a stronger partnership. Photo: UNDP

How did partnerships work for Africa?

MDGs

MDG 8: Global Partnership for Development

Full steam ahead to sustainable energy

Rio+20sustainable development

Tapping geothermal power in Kenya’s Rift Valley

Power from the wind in South Africa

Rio+20sustainable development

Turbines generate hope for clean energy

Africa’s vanishing Lake Chad

Rio+20sustainable development

Action needed to counter an “ecological catastrophe”

Community radio gives voice to shack dwellers

Rio+20sustainable development

With new outlet, Korogocho residents push for reforms

Towards African cities without slums

Rio+20sustainable development

Governments set course towards improving poor urban areas

For sustainable cities, Africa needs planning

Rio+20sustainable development

Interview with UN-Habitat’s Joan Clos

‘Only our collective voice will be heard’

Rio+20sustainable development

Interview with Kumi Naidoo, executive director of Greenpeace International

Africa’s priorities for sustainable development

Rio+20sustainable development

Wanted: fresh ideas for combating African poverty

Africapoverty

Amidst global crisis, a need to go beyond the MDGs

Jobs and equity key to Africa's poverty fight

MDGseconomy

Progress on MDGs requires more than social safety nets