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April 2016

Africa Renewal April 2016

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A model of the future Kigali City. An ambitious Kigali development master plan aims to turn the city into the ‘Singapore of Africa’. Panos/Sven Torfinn

Africa’s cities of the future

An artist impression (in the background) of a forthcoming shopping and office complex. Photo: Panos/Sven Torfinn

Kigali sparkles on the hills

Lagos Island from Apogbon, overlooking Apapa Wharf Sea Port. Photo: Africa Media Online/Ademola Akinlabi

Lagos now wears a new look

Dr. Joan Clos is the Executive Director of the Nairobi-based United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN- Habitat). Photo: UN Photo/Rick Bajornas

Urbanization is a tool for development

Aerial view of the district of Plateau in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire. Photo: UN Photo/Basile Zoma

Abidjan regains its glamour

David Nabarro, UN Secretary-General’s special adviser on the sustainable development goals.

SDGs: No one will be left behind

Scorpio R. Khoury, the 26-year old Rwandese, owner of fashion house ‘Made in Kigali’. Photo: Panos/Sven Torfinn

Africa looks to its entrepreneurs

Mr. Thabo Mbeki (middle) led a High-Level Panel on IFF to the United States. Photo: Africa Renewal/Paddy Ilos

Mbeki panel ramps up war against illicit financial flows

Japan’s senior vice-minister of agriculture, forestry and fish eries Taku Eto tries out a Japanese-made tilling machine in Cameroon. Photo: The Government of Japan

Boost in Japan-Africa ties

A farmer measuring the thickness of a bamboo tree in Madagascar. Photo: INBAR/Lou Yiping

Bamboo: Africa’s untapped potential

Bamboo products: Houses, furniture, lamp shades and a bicycle. Photo: INBAR/Lou Yiping

Bamboo taking root in Africa

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon addresses a summit of local leaders at the climate change conference in Paris. Photo: UN Photo/Eskinder Debebe

The Paris climate deal and Africa

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The world’s largest solar power plant in Morocco will eventually provide 1.1 million people with electricity. Photo: World Bank/Dana Smillie

Harvesting the sun

A building under construction in Ouagadougou. Photo: Ernest Harsch

A new Burkina Faso in the making

A guest is checked with a metal detector at the entrance of a hotel in Yaounde, Cameroon. Photo: Panapress/Jean-Pierre Kepseu

Terrorism overshadows internal conflicts

UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Hervé Ladsous (centre) tours the Dutch camp of the UN Mission in Mali. Photo: UN Photo/Marco Dormino

Drones are effective in protecting civilians

Somalis prepare coffee for customers in a Mogadishu restaurant. Photo: AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh

Somalia rising from the ashes

People walk inside the recently opened Peace Garden, in Hamar jajab district of Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo: UN Photo/Ilyas Ahmed

From strife to revival, Mogadishu holds hopes and dreams

Nicholas Kay, former Special Representative of the Secretary-General and Head of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM).

Somalia charts a new path

Ntiokam Divine

Speaking SDGs in African languages

A UN unmanned aerial vehicle in the DRC. Photo: UN Photo/Abel Kavanagh

Africa Wired

Demonstrators carry a Burundi flag during a protest in Bujumbura, Burundi. Photo: Reuters/G. Tomasevic

Africa Watch

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