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Empowering women to boost Africa’s water security

As climate change affects water sources, ensuring women participate in water management decisions also improves incomes and health

ByCaroline Mwongera

Boosting intra-African trade will power post-COVID-19 recovery and foster food security

International Trade Centre’s ‘One Trade Africa’ is helping African MSMEs leverage market opportunities

ByAissatou Diallo

The world is burning. We need a renewables revolution

The only true path to energy security, stable power prices, prosperity and a livable planet lies in abandoning polluting fossil fuels and accelerating the renewables-based energy transition

ByAntónio Guterres

Taking charge of Africa’s oceans and blue resources

We need to mitigate the effects of climate change, transition to clean, renewable energy, close research gap, and seek intra-governmental and regional collaboration
ByElham M. Ali

Africa’s role in saving the world’s damaged lands and ecosystems

In global battle against climate change and loss of biodiversity, Africa’s success is crucial

ByPhemo Kgomotso

2022: The year to stop the decline of the ocean’s health

Let us all commit to redressing our relationship with nature to one of respect and balance

ByPeter Thomson

Growing hunger, high food prices in Africa don’t have to become worse tragedy

Avoiding the horseman of famine will take applying past lessons and quick action by governments, international organizations.

ByRicardo Fuentes-Nieva

How the Russia-Ukraine conflict impacts Africa

An opportunity to build resilient, inclusive Food Systems in Africa.

ByJosefa Sacko & Ibrahim Mayaki

“The War in Ukraine: A Silent Assault on the Developing World”

The crisis could throw up to 1.7 billion people into poverty, destitution and hunger

ByAntónio Guterres