Low-income countries hit hardest by global food price inflation.
Stories & Blogs FAOJul 22, 2025(News )Special Event in New York explores the causes, consequences and solutions to the 2021-2023 food price inflation.
SDG reviews help bring youth, communities into policy making process.
Stories & Blogs ECAJul 22, 2025(Press Release )Every year at the High-Level Political Forum (HLPF) in New York, the regional commissions host a VNR lab to highlight best practices and lessons to learn from across the globe.
Aid won’t close Africa’s $1.3 trillion SDG gap.
Stories & Blogs ECAJul 21, 2025(Press Release )At a high-level session on the margins of the 2025 UN High-level Political Forum, African leaders called for structural reforms to expand domestic resource mobilization, build regional value chains and shift away from exporting raw commodities.
ECA urges unified African stance amid debt crisis and donor retreat.
Stories & Blogs ECAJul 17, 2025(Press Release )Rising debt, geopolitical instability and declining aid flows are intensifying external pressure on African economies.
WHO donates medical supplies and equipment to boost mpox response.
Stories & Blogs WHOJul 03, 2025(News )The handover ceremony took place at the Hastings Treatment Centre, with WHO Country Representative Dr George Ameh officially handing over the supplies to Deputy Chief Medical Officer Dr Mustapha Kabba.
Green Climate Fund and UNEP boost climate adaptation with USD 120 million for new projects.
Stories & Blogs UNEPJul 02, 2025(Press Release )The Green Climate Fund (GCF) has approved over USD 120 million in new funding to strengthen climate resilience in Ghana, the Maldives, and Mauritania.
USD 420 billion annual shortfall blocking gender equality in developing countries.
Stories & Blogs UN-WomenJun 30, 2025(Press Release )Chronic underfunding, weak tracking systems, and unfair financial rules are stalling progress on gender equality. UN Women calls for urgent, sustained investment to close the gap and deliver on equality commitments.
Refugees escaping Sudan face escalating hunger and malnutrition as food aid risks major reductions
Stories & Blogs WPFJun 30, 2025(News )The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today warned that millions of Sudanese refugees who have fled to neighbouring countries risk plunging deeper into hunger and malnutrition as critical funding shortages force drastic cuts to life saving food as
Global public debt hit a record $102 trillion in 2024, striking developing countries hardest
Stories & Blogs UNCTADJun 26, 2025(News )Since 2010, developing countries’ debt has grown twice as fast as that of advanced economies. Today, 3.4 billion people live in countries spending more on interest payments than on health or education.
Developing countries face record-high public debt burdens. Now is the time for reform.
Stories & Blogs UNCTADJun 26, 2025(News )Rising debt burdens are threatening the world’s already fragile path to sustainable development, warns the UN ahead of the 4th International Conference on Financing for Development..