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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.
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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

Head of Peacekeeping Operations Herve Ladsous

Unmanned aerial vehicles are effective in protecting civilians—Hervé Ladsous

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Festus Mogae, served as the president of the southern African country of Botswana from 1998 to 2008.

Good leadership is about people – Festus Mogae

Jorge Sampaio, former President of Portugal. Photo: UN Photos

To avoid wars, give diplomacy a chance - Mr. Sampaio

United Nations Nelson Mandela Prize
Amadou Sy, Director of the Africa Growth Institute at the Brookings Institution

Africa has a “window of opportunity” to avoid a new debt trap

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Girls in ICT: Technology lifting thousands out of poverty

ICT

Young Zimbabweans warming up to gambling

Punters driven by a growing appetite for gaming and the need to make that extra coin

Kyung-wha Kang

Women seek greater role in rebuilding Central African Republic

Former Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan (left) and President-elect Muhammadu Buhari shake hands. In the middle is former head of state, Gen (Rtd) Abdulsalam Abubakar.

African presidential elections 2015: Nigeria leads the way

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Seven other African countries; Burkina-Faso, Burundi, Central Africa Republic, the Comoros, Côte d’Ivoire, Sudan and Togo are set to hold elections in 2015

UN Photo/Fred Noy

Food security: Regional solutions key to solving Africa’s challenges

Slave trade: How African foods influenced modern American cuisine

Rodney Leon, Architect of the "Ark of Return", the UN Permanent Memorial honouring slavery's victims. Image in the background is a sketch of the monument courtesy of Rodney Leon Architects.

Historic ‘Ark of Return’ monument on slavery unveiled at the UN

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Vaccination campaign in Liberia. Photo: UNMEER/Aalok Kanani

Early treatment is key in managing Ebola

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