Secretary-General appoints Garry Conille of Haiti as the United Nations Resident Coordinator in Kenya
Stories & Blogs UNSDGApr 01, 2026(Announcement )Mr. Conille brings over 20 years of experience in international development, humanitarian affairs and public administration to the position.
Secretary‑General appoints Ozonnia Ojielo of Nigeria as the United Nations Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Ethiopia
Stories & Blogs UNSDGMar 16, 2026(Announcement )Mr. Ojielo brings to the position more than 25 years of experience in sustainable development, governance, peacebuilding and conflict prevention.
Liberia steps up trade standards: President Boakai commissions new LiSA headquarters and laboratories
Stories & Blogs UNIDOFeb 19, 2026(News )In a significant step towards strengthening Liberia’s enabling business environment and safeguarding public health, President Joseph Nyuma Boakai, Sr., officially commissioned the newly renovated headquarters and laboratories of the Liberia Standards Auth
How Gen Z is Redefining Governance in Africa
Stories & Blogs UNDP-AfricaJan 29, 2026(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.
UNDP and Africell offer better digital connectivity to young innovators in Sierra Leone and The Gambia
Stories & Blogs UNDP-AfricaJan 23, 2026(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.
Achieving the Paris Agreement Goals: Our Race to the Top
Stories & Blogs UNSDGNov 12, 2025(Story )On 12 December 2015, the world reached consensus on the Paris Agreement – our legally binding, universal treaty to combat climate catastrophe.
From Copenhagen to Doha: Why the Second World Summit for Social Development Matters for Africa
Stories & Blogs UNDP-AfricaNov 05, 2025(News )World leaders are gathering in Doha this week for the Second World Summit on Social Development (WSSD2), three decades after the first Summit in Copenhagen. For Africa, this gathering is not a commemorative moment, but a pivotal opportunity to rally partn
The UN’s Next 80 Years Depend on Africa’s Next 10
Stories & Blogs UNDP-AfricaOct 22, 2025(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
Improving fisheries trade and livelihoods across Southern Africa
Stories & Blogs UNIDOOct 16, 2025(Story )Across Southern Africa, fisheries are a vital source of food, jobs and economic growth. Yet, much of this blue industry potential remains untapped.
"Now is the time to choose": UN Chief's remarks at the General Assembly.
Stories & Blogs UNSDGSep 23, 2025(Announcement )“…The pillars of peace and progress are buckling under the weight of impunity, inequality, and indifference…” UN Secretary-General António Guterres.