Five things you need to know about El Niño-induced drought in Southern Africa
Stories & Blogs IFAD (News )Urgent action is needed to save the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in Southern Africa, many of whom are in the grip of the region’s worst drought in 100 years.
In Zambia, I saw rural resilience first-hand
Stories & Blogs IFAD (Blog )Zambia has been hit hard by extreme weather events in recent years. Drought is impacting food security and rural livelihoods so severely that the government has declared it a national emergency.
Q&A: What you need to know about ‘the price of inaction’ in education
Stories & Blogs UNESCO (News )First global report to illustrate the monetary costs to economies around the world of leaving children and youth behind in education.
Le Sénégal lance le Programme de gestion intégrée des risques climatiques à l'appui des petits exploitants agricoles.
Stories & Blogs IFAD (News )En partenariat avec plusieurs organismes internationaux, dont le FIDA, le Gouvernement sénégalais a officiellement lancé le Programme de gestion intégrée des risques climatiques (AIRCM)
Remembering the genocide against the Tutsi
Stories & Blogs UNESCO (Article )In 2023, UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee added four genocide memorial sites in Rwanda to the list of World Heritage Sites: Nyamata, Murambi, Bisesero and Gisozi, where the Kigali Genocide Memorial is located.
East African media called to strengthen regional integration through judicial reporting
Stories & Blogs UNESCO (Article )At a regional training held by UNESCO and the East African Court of Justice, 32 editors and journalists from East Africa were urged to promote awareness among East African citizens on the Court's mandate.
Generative AI: UNESCO study reveals alarming evidence of regressive gender stereotypes
Stories & Blogs UNESCO (Press Release )A UNESCO study revealed worrying tendencies in Large Language models (LLM) to produce gender bias, as well as homophobia and racial stereotyping