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Youth

the 2020 Class of Young Leaders for the SDGs
UN launches 2020 Class of 17 Young Leaders for the Sustainable Development Goals
Celebrating a resilient and innovative generation
My life-changing journey to the African Union
AU Special Envoy Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala to youth: Use COVID-19 crisis to unleash your innovation

Gender

Security Council Unanimously Adopts Resolution 1325 (2000)
How Namibia helped birth UN Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security
The end of the African Women’s Decade; tracking progress on commitments
Beijing +25: Overcoming 21st Century challenges to deliver for Africa’s women
Women lead in Sudan’s clamour for good governance

SDGs

The male northern white rhinos became extinct in 2018
Technology gives hope to Africa’s endangered northern white rhinos
Wildlife crime putting environment and health at risk: UN report
Botswana e-learning initiative wins prestigious UN Public Service Award
World Oceans Day: Don’t be colour blind, help blue oceans keep the planet green

Climate Change

The Great Green Wall initiative created close to 120 000 farming jobs.
Africa's Great Green Wall: close to 18 million hectares of land restored
Tunisia’s unique farming systems win recognition as part of the global agricultural heritage
Restoring Sudan’s forest cover, one tree at a time
How sea cucumbers are boosting the bioeconomy in Zanzibar

Health

COVID-19 halting crucial mental health services in Africa, WHO survey.
COVID-19 halting crucial mental health services in Africa, WHO survey
"We need Universal Health Coverage, including mental health coverage, now"
Fight against COVID-19 has sparked innovations
Could this be a turning point for Africa’s health systems?

Peace and Security

Opening Ceremony of the 33rd AU Summit | Addis Ababa, 9 February 2020
Africa Amnesty Month: UN-AU joint call for the surrender of illicit weapons
Violent extremism costs African countries $97 billion each year
To go ahead with the vote or to postpone? Elections in Africa in the time of COVID-19
Water cooperation between States ‘key’ to Blue Nile dam project

Human Rights

Door of no return in Ouidah, Benin.
To be forever free!
Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre: Using the past to protect the present and future
“It is worth fighting for even one child’s life”
‘Inequality defines our time’: UN Chief António Guterres' hard-hitting 2020 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture

Economic Development

United States currency
Africa could gain $89 billion annually by curbing illicit financial flows
Temie Giwa-Tubosun: the Nigerian entrepreneur delivering blood to patients
'Know the Beginning Well: An Inside Journey Through Five Decades of African Development' by K.Y. Amoako
AfCFTA Secretariat commissioned in Accra as free trade is set to begin in January 2021

Migrants and Refugees

Thousands of refugees and migrants suffer extreme rights abuses on journeys to Africa’s Mediterranean coast
IOM hails historic first human trafficking convictions in Sierra Leone
First Group of Over 1,400 Stranded Ethiopian Migrants Arrive from Tanzania
How mobile money is rebuilding lives in Sudan

Culture and Education

Clothes, bags and accessories
African history told through fashionable printed clothing
WHO, UNICEF urge safe school reopening in Africa
“Bold steps required, to create inclusive, resilient, quality education systems fit for the future”
UNESCO urges caution over fraudulent African artefacts, sold in its name

Humanitarian Aid

WFP staff attend to a participant in a Food and Cash assistance scheme Kano, Nigeria, last week.
UN World Food Programme wins 2020 Nobel Peace Prize
UN salutes real-life heroes doing ‘extraordinary things, in extraordinary times’
World Humanitarian Day: Our Real-Life Heroes
Humanitarian Needs Grow as Burkina Faso Faces Unprecedented Level of Internal Displacement

UN Affairs

Around the world people are calling for more action on human rights...
UN@75: Global conversation spotlights The Future We Want, The UN We Need
New General Assembly underscores ‘necessity of multilateralism’
Cameroon’s youth make their voice heard to shape our world’s future
South African rugby star Siya Kolisi named UN Global Advocate for Spotlight Initiative