She was honoured “for her efforts to promote peace and international law”, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said in a statement.

On 7 October, in Mauritius, Africa takes an important step toward reshaping its relationship with global capital markets. The ...

In Tanzania, Eunice Okama, founder and legal representative of the Young Moms Unite Initiative (YMUI), works at the ...

The global observance for this year’s World Environment Day (5 June) will be hosted by Azerbaijan and the theme [on climate change] will rally the world around the urgency to act. Why is the 2026 ...

At the African Union’s first Debt Conference held in Lomé, Togo, in May 2025, leaders and experts proposed concrete reforms to address rising debt distress across the continent. With several African ...

The pursuit of reparations has long animated African and global dialogues about justice. Since 1963, when the Organization of African Unity (OAU)—the predecessor to the African Union (AU) — first took ...

On the International Day for Countering Hate Speech, survivor Germaine Tuyisenge Müller reflects on how words fueled Rwanda’s darkest chapter—and why today’s growing wave of hate speech must be ...

Although Africa holds more than 30 per cent of the world’s critical green minerals—including cobalt, lithium, manganese, and rare earth elements vital for building batteries, wind turbines and solar ...

UNIDO's Deputy to the Director General and Managing Director of the Directorate of Global Partnerships and External Relations, Fatou Haidara, and African Union Commissioner for Economic Development, ...

African leaders are sharpening their focus on digital sovereignty, warning that the continent’s economic future will depend not just on connectivity, but on who controls its data—and where it is ...

Across the continent, a staggering 600 million people remain without access to electricity, a number that translates into significant energy poverty, particularly in rural Africa, where 70-80 million ...

Three young siblings from a small town in northeastern Ghana wake up one morning delighted by the fonio porridge that awaits them that day. As the children enjoy their breakfast, Christabel Kwasi, the ...