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Technology & Innovation

This beat covers technological advancement, innovations, and inventions addressing challenges facing Africa today, as well as efforts to tackle misinformation.

Africa Renewal’s webinar featuring Africa’s leading young female entrepreneurs.
Technology & Innovation

Bridging the Gender Digital Gap in Africa

Africa Renewal’s webinar featuring Africa’s leading young female entrepreneurs.
Door of no return in Ouidah, Benin.
Human Rights

Reflecting on the brutal Transatlantic Slave Trade

AfricaUnited Nations 25 March each year is the International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade, a day to honor the victims of slavery and to raise awareness about the dangers of ongoing racism and prejudice.
A female.
Technology & Innovation

Artificial intelligence and Africa

Artificial Intelligence Experts say supportive policies and robust infrastructure key for tech opportunities
Technology & Innovation

Togo and UN sign MoU to establish the African Cybersecurity Centre

Cybersecurity Based in Lome, the centre will promote cybersecurity and fight cybercrime

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Working towards sustainable development means that communities such as the people in Kitabi, Rwanda get to enjoy the fruits of globalization. Workers in Kitabi Tea Processing Facility process 48 000 tons of green leaf per day for export.
Economic Development

Restoring the economy’s ability to deliver prosperity

HOM is a secure contactless solution used to aid and support users during an outbreak.

Sierra Leonean technologist’s app helps to fight COVID-19

Innovation COVID-19

Earlier version of locally developed app was used to help tackle the 2014 Ebola outbreak

Discussion between community members and police

Enyif community members return home thanks to improving security situation

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 Catherine Oshotse

Africa Wired: E-commerce offers fresh opportunities for young traders

Moustapha Cisse, head of Google’s AI centre in Accra, Ghana. The centre is Google’s first in Africa. Photo: Moustapha Cisse

Africa Wired: Artificial intelligence offers benefits for Africa

An official checks data from an internet-based water monitoring device at a borehole in Basbedo, Burkina Faso. Photo: Panos/Andrew McConnell

The Internet of everything water

technology

Local communities boosting water monitoring systems using the Internet

A Kenyan teacher checks his mobile phone while guarding his cattle. Photo: Panos/Sven Torfinn

Africa’s digital rise hooked on innovation

technology

Engineers are adapting technology to suit the specific needs and dynamics of the continent

Film Director Michele Mitchell (5th right) at the UN screening of "The Uncondemned" with the four women who testified before the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and Godeliève Mukasarasi of the SEVOTA support group for widows and orphans. UN Ph

PODCAST: The power of bearing witness – how rape became an ‘act of genocide’

AfricaRwandan Genocide
Secretary-General António Guterres meets with John Pombe Joseph Magufuli, President of Tanzania at the 28th summit of the African Union (AU), in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. UN Photo/Antonio Fiorente

A Continent of Hope

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ITU

Putting a human face to information technologies

information technologies
A tourist park near Harare, Zimbabwe: for some African countries, tourism is a key sector of their international trade in services. Photo : ©Adarini Inkei

Trading services: an opening or a noose?

AfricaWTO
Working towards sustainable development means that communities such as the people in Kitabi, Rwanda get to enjoy the fruits of globalization. Workers in Kitabi Tea Processing Facility process 48 000 tons of green leaf per day for export.

Restoring the economy’s ability to deliver prosperity

AfricaUnited NationsThe Sustainable Development Goals must become the yardstick for judging inclusive growth
Consolee Nishimwe, survived the 1994 genocide in Rwanda as a teenager.

I was tested to the limit — Rwanda genocide survivor