Global trade up 2.5% in second quarter, on track for record highs in 2025.
Stories & Blogs UNCTAD (News )Resilient growth continues despite policy uncertainty and geopolitical tensions. Barring major shocks in the final months of the year, global trade is on track to surpass its 2024 record.
Togo revises AfCFTA strategy with support from ECA and UNDP.
Stories & Blogs ECA (Story )The Government of Togo has launched a national process to revise the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Framework Agreement, its protocols and the country’s national implementation strategy.
Providing mental health and psychosocial support to Uganda’s Ebola survivors.
Stories & Blogs WHO-Africa (News )“In every outbreak, behind the statistics are real people – frightened, grieving and often stigmatized,” says Ayub Maswaswa, a mental health and psychosocial.
UNHCR calls for urgent international support to advance solutions for Sahel’s forcibly displaced.
Stories & Blogs UNHCR (News )About 4 million people are now displaced across Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and neighbouring countries.
‘A pivotal moment to reshape the global economic agenda’ – Rebeca Grynspan.
Stories & Blogs UNCTAD (News )Speaking ahead of the 16th UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD16), the secretary-general underscored the meeting’s importance amid mounting global uncertainty and inequalities.
Crucial care: Reducing maternal mortality and childbirth injury in Angola.
Stories & Blogs UNFPA (Story )Childbirth: a remarkable feat of life or a deeply traumatic experience? That can depend on your access to healthcare.
How AI can help fund resilience, not disasters.
Stories & Blogs ITU (News )Artificial intelligence (AI) – through its ability to quickly ingest, process, and find patterns within vast, complex datasets – can help flag key factors across and within financial, economic, social, and natural systems.
WHO and the European Union launch collaboration to advance digitized health systems in sub-Saharan Africa.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )The World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Union (EU) announced today a new agreement to support the digital transformation of health systems and wider adoption of WHO’s Global Digital Health Certification Network (GDHCN) in sub-Saharan Africa.
Republic of Congo reinforces measures to curb potential Ebola outbreak.
Stories & Blogs WHO (News )The Republic of Congo has stepped up measures to rapidly detect and respond to potential Ebola outbreak as neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo faces a new outbreak of the virus in Kasai Province in the central region of the country.
Why are over 670 million people going hungry?
Stories & Blogs UN (Story )More than eight per cent of the world population or around 673 million people are not getting enough to eat and going hungry, according to the UN.