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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

Editor Picks

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

UN and African peace operations

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Peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions, 2010

Stakes high in vote on Sudan's south

referendumAfrica

Major push to preserve peace and organize referendum

Darfur: an experiment in African peacekeeping

African UnionDarfur

Is African Union–UN hybrid a model for the future?

MDG poster by UN DPI

UN chief kicks off drive to save more than 16 million women and children worldwide

United NationsMDGs

On the record with Hugh Masekela

MDGsHugh Masekela
Symbolic burning of arms following Guinea-Bissau’s civil war

Reform of Guinea-Bissau’s military at the crossroads

Guinea-BissauECOWAS
Asha-Rose Migiro

Pregnant with Possibility

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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni, ICC review conference

Court must fight impunity, say African delegates

International Criminal CourtWangari Maathai
Empowering the poorest countries to reach poverty goals

UN report card on anti-poverty goals shows mixed picture of progress and obstacles

United NationsMDGs
Mother feeds her child in Niger

Sahel: surviving the lean season

AfricaSahel

Millennium Development Goals: time to step up

MDGsHIV-AIDS

Some progress in Africa, but more is needed, argues UN Secretary-General

To save the lives of mothers, infants

MDGsRwanda

Commitment, money and innovation can reduce high mortality rates