The UN’s Next 80 Years Depend on Africa’s Next 10
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Blog )The United Nations turns 80 this year. It should be a celebration. Instead, it feels like a reckoning. Multilateralism as we know it, is in crisis: too slow where it should be agile, too fragmented where it should be cohesive, too exclusive where it shoul
Making gender equality work: how Africa’s public institutions are leading the shift
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Blog )Across the region, governments and public institutions are driving Africa’s transformation in inclusive and accountable ways.
Academic Conference on Africa 2025
Event December 1 – 3, 2025 - Venue/Format: Hybrid — Conference Room 2, UN Headquarters, New York and OnlineOrganizer: OSAA
Global Industry Summit The 21st Session of the UNIDO General Conference.
Event November 23 – 27, 2025 - Venue/Format: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia King Abdulaziz International Conference CentreOrganizer: UNIDO
11th Ministerial Conference of the Least Developed Countries
Event November 22, 2025 - Venue/Format: King Abdulaziz International Conference Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.Organizer: UNIDO
2025 UN Climate Change Conference (UNFCCC COP 30)
Event November 10 - 21, 2025 - Venue/Format: Belém, BrazilOrganizer: UNFCCC
Botswana’s jewel: How unlocking investments in nature can drive economic prosperity for all October 8, 2025
Stories & Blogs UNDP-Africa (Blog )Aligning financial systems with biodiversity protection is not only risk mitigation—it’s a pathway to inclusive, resilient growth.
From water to electricity: The rural-urban infrastructure gap in seven charts.
Stories & Blogs World Bank (Blog )In Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, rural areas still house the majority of the population.
People-centered AI in education: Five lessons from the Global South.
Stories & Blogs World Bank (Blog )In just six weeks, secondary school students in Edo, Nigeria participating in an after-school program combining AI tutoring with teacher guidance, achieved learning gains of 0.31 standard deviations, equivalent to roughly 1.5–2 years of typical schooling.
Nearly 2 million refugees at risk as Uganda emergency funds dwindle and services cut
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (Press release )Uganda is on the verge of hosting two million refugees as escalating crises in Sudan, South Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) drive hundreds of people to cross the border daily in search of safety and lifesaving aid.