Africa Takes Off with AI
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (News )Youth, Innovation and New Partnerships Shape the Continent’s Digital Future
Cyclones Devastated Madagascar’s Poorest Communities, New Satellite Analysis Reveals
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Press Release )Cyclone Fytia hit the west coast between 31 January and 1 February, followed by Cyclone Gezani, which made landfall near Toamasina on 10 February.
ECOWAS joins the Coalition for Disaster Resilient Infrastructure: Strengthening risk-informed development in West Africa
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Press Release )ECOWAS's membership represents a strategic advancement for countries in West Africa, where recurrent hazards—including floods, droughts, coastal erosion, and epidemics—continue to threaten livelihoods, ecosystems, and infrastructure stability.
UNDP and Africell offer better digital connectivity to young innovators in Sierra Leone and The Gambia
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Press Release )The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and Africell are teaming up to provide better digital connectivity to UNDP’s timbuktoo University Innovation Pods (UniPods) in Sierra Leone and The Gambia.
A Strategic Tripartite Partnership to Improve Flood Forecasting in West Africa and the Sahel
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Blog )“Through the Sahel Resilience Project, we are strengthening institutions for disaster risk reduction and adaptation, co-creating inclusive solutions, and supporting communities to better anticipate and respond to hydrometeorological hazards—while localizi
How Gen Z is Redefining Governance in Africa
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Blog )Jide Okeke explores how by blending digital-age accountability with institutional design, youth-led movements could transform how African societies govern themselves in the twenty-first century.