Jocelyne Sambira

Jocelyne Sambira

Jocelyne Sambira is a UN staff member and writer for Africa Renewal in New York. She previously served in the UN peacekeeping mission in South Sudan from 2007-2009 as a radio producer. She moved there from Kenya where she had been reporting for the UN humanitarian news agency, IRIN, in the Great Lakes region and Northern Uganda since 2002. Jocelyne began her career as a radio producer in the thick of a civil war in her native Burundi. She holds a Masters in Science in Digital Media from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism (2014).

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Ms. Fatima Maada Bio, the First Lady of Sierra Leone

Empowering change: Safeguarding women in Sierra Leone

- A discussion with the First Lady of Sierra Leone, Fatima Maada Bio

Fighting gender-based violence and early marriages

- A discussion with the First Lady of Sierra Leone, Fatima Maada Bio
Solar panels being cleaned at the Ain Beni Mathar Integrated Combined Cycle Thermo-Solar Power Plant in Morocco.  World Bank/Dana Smillie

New bond issue set to help Africa go ‘green’

A way of bankrolling a clean energy revolution
Cables and wires in storage at Reroy Cables. The Ghanaian company augmented its capital with a bank loan secured with the help of the International Finance Corporation, an affiliate of the World Bank. Panos/Nyani Quarmyne

Borrowing responsibly: Africa’s debt challenge

Countries may be borrowing too much and too fast

Hunting for Eurobonds

Views split on sub-Saharan Africa’s debut in the international markets

Influencing policy is ‘not a numbers game’

More women in Africa enter public office, but still wield little power

Tapping migration wealth to fund development

African diaspora remittances can reduce poverty

Africa Wired

Simple invention brokers peace between humans and wildlife

Japan: Africa’s subtle but effective partner

Interview with JICA President, Akihiko Tanaka

Africa’s mobile youth drive change

Cell phones reshape youth cultures

Counterfeit drugs raise Africa’s temperature

Profits too high, penalties too low to stop crime

Rwanda genocide survivors struggle to rebuild their lives

Genocide can happen anywhere, says Jacqueline Murekatete, a survivor

‘Take away the guns,’ women tell UN envoy

Reforms needed to stop war-time sex crimes, says Zainab Bangura

Stabilizing Somalia: a new chapter begins

A “make or break” point for the country’s new leaders

New HIV infections are falling dramatically in Africa

People with the disease are also living longer and better

Burundi’s push for universal education

Enrolment rates at an all time high, but challenges remain
Children of ProjectArt, a Harlem, New York summer arts camp, create Nelson Mandela inspired art and messages for peace

‘Inspire change, make every day a Mandela Day’

Africans celebrate Nelson Mandela International Day

Northern Mali’s ‘city of saints’ suffers rebel fury

Destruction of Timbuktu mausoleums is “repugnant,” says UN
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