Africa Renewal

12/16/2025

Online abuse is not “just words” — it’s real violence with real impact. Across Africa, women and girls are paying the price, facing harassment that limits their freedom, safety, and opportunity online. We must recognize and act on digital violence as a human rights issue.
There is for inaction.
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New estimates show that violence against women and girls remains one of the most pervasive human rights violations in the world – and that one of its fastest-growing frontiers is the digital space. 

12/10/2025

From one of five sisters in rural Nigeria to Deputy Secretary-General.

In this episode of , Amina J. Mohammed shares how tenacity, a strong moral compass, and even her love of chocolate and traditional clothes have shaped her leadership and the Sustainable Development Goals.

“One step at a time, this whole life is about a journey. Make each step count… You need people to cry with you, laugh with you.”

Listen now: https://ow.ly/fW1o50XGUkk

11/28/2025

She’s not being dramatic.
She’s being targeted.
Harassment and deepfakes are violence—on screen and off.
We must : https://ow.ly/Mgjr50XyOZO

11/24/2025

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🌍 At COP30 in Belém, countries committed to ramping up climate finance and mapping a just transition away from fossil fuels.
This is a pivotal moment for climate action — one we must seize together.
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In a pivotal outcome at COP30 in Belém, Brazil, countries agreed on a sweeping package to scale up climate finance and accelerate implementation of the Paris Agreement – but without a clear commitment to move away from fossil fuels.

10/21/2025

🌍✨ Across Africa, AI isn’t just a buzzword—it’s reshaping how we learn, create and grow. In “Africa Renewal’s” latest piece *“Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Learning,” we explore how innovators are:
• Bringing AI‑powered tutors to phones in local languages.
• Building hybrid hubs that merge community, digital skills and entrepreneurship.
• Gamifying real‑world sectors—like agriculture—to give learners hands‑on, market‑relevant experience.

✅ The message is clear: to truly benefit from AI, access and localisation must come first.

Read the full article here: https://africarenewal.un.org/en/magazine/ai-and-future-learning

Artificial intelligence is reshaping how learners, teachers, and creators engage with education across the continent. Through initiatives such as Digital Skills for Africa, Lumo Hubs, and Luma Learn, innovators are breaking barriers of access, cost, and language to build inclusive, localized learnin...

09/30/2025

Africa’s AI future is still being written.
At a Town Hall in New York, ministers, innovators, and young leaders made it clear: challenges are opportunities, barriers to entry are lower than ever, and AI could accelerate nearly 80% of the SDGs.
One truth stood out: with the world’s largest youth population, Africa’s role in the AI revolution is not optional—it’s inevitable.
https://ow.ly/b8Nv50X43V9

09/29/2025

What does it take to advance health in Africa when global funding is shrinking?

In this powerful conversation under the theme “Stronger Africa, Stronger World: Advancing Health Amid Global Funding Challenges,” Dr. Diene Keita, Deputy Executive Director of UNFPA, reminds us that scarcity must not mean paralysis.

“We don’t stop and cry. We continue until we find the necessary money.”

Watch the full exchange on progress, resilience, and why Africa’s future is deeply tied to the world’s.

📺 https://webtv.un.org/en/asset/k1v/k1vecgsn06

09/18/2025

At GABI 2025: The Big Push — Africa Shapes the Markets, leaders, CEOs, innovators, and investors will gather in New York to spotlight how Africa is driving global change. From energy to fintech, creative industries to climate, Africa offers solutions — not just potential. 
Shifting the narrative: business with Africa, not in Africa. Join the conversation.
https://ow.ly/A82A50WYL9p

09/15/2025

Sudan’s children are in crisis.

After more than two years of war:
• 25M+ are acutely hungry
• 20M+ need urgent healthcare
• 13M children are out of school
• Half of the displaced are children

Aid agencies warn of surging malnutrition and lost futures. With funding running dry, even lifesaving food aid is being cut.

Yet hope endures: nearly 9,000 schools have reopened, providing not just learning, but meals, safe water, and trauma support.

We must act now. Every child deserves a future.

📖 Read more via the UN: https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/09/1165830

Aid agencies working in war-torn Sudan issued an alert on Friday over the particular harm faced by children there, the longer the conflict goes on.

09/08/2025

Sudan’s conflict has entered month 30, with UN-human rights investigators warning of escalating atrocities against civilians. Looting, burning, shelling—this isn’t a statistic, it’s a catastrophe.

As the nearly 30-month-long conflict in Sudan between rival militaries grinds on, looting, burning, and shelling continues to destroy livelihoods and hope.

07/29/2025

✍🏾 “Peace is not a silence you force into people’s mouths. Peace is a verb.”

Nigerian poet and activist Maryam Bukar Hassan — also known as Alhanislam — has turned pain into poetry and trauma into transformation.

As the first-ever Global Advocate for Peace of the United Nations, she brings a powerful message: peace is built through understanding, dignity, and shared humanity.

👉 Read her story of resilience, voice, and hope:
🔗https://africarenewal.un.org/en/magazine/poets-peace

07/28/2025

On (28 July), we spotlight Uganda’s bold step toward hepatitis elimination.

With WHO support, Uganda now offers free nationwide hepatitis B testing, treatment, and vaccines—including a birth dose introduced in 2023.

This is health equity in action: bringing services closer to communities, preventing liver cancer, and saving lives.

Test. Treat. Vaccinate.


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Meet Emmanuel Lutamaguzi, a young Ugandan who unexpectedly discovered he was infected with hepatitis B during a routine medical examination. He benefitted from Uganda's Ministry of Health massive, free hepatitis B screening programme, and now says "We can triumph over even the most formidable health...