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By: Kingsley Ighobor —Damilola Ogunbiyi, Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All Damilola Ogunbiyi is the CEO of Sustainable Energy for All (SEforALL) and the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable […]

LUANDA, Angola, MBABANE, Eswatini, PRETORIA, South Africa and LUSAKA, Zambia—“Young people are able to access [sexual and reproductive health] services but not as much as they used to before the lockdown,” said Kondelwani Kamanga, a […]

Africa Dialogue Series (ADS) 2021 will take place around Africa Day marked on 25 May. For 2021, the theme is “Cultural identity and ownership: reshaping mindsets” and will celebrate the continent’s identity, culture, history and achievements, through exhibitions and […]

Violations include rape, forced sterilization, virginity testing, female genital mutilation and more NEW YORK, 14 April 2021 – Nearly half of women in 57 developing countries are denied the right to decide whether to have sex […]

The first-ever youth envoy of the African Union, Ms. Aya Chebbi of Tunisia, has been advocating for young Africans’ voices to be heard. In July 2020, her office launch ‘Sauti’ a blog entirely dedicated to young female […]

Over recent weeks we have looked at some of the many challenges that are associated with international migration and the national and global responses that have been employed to alleviate some of the perceived and […]

Destinations worldwide welcomed 598 million international tourists in the first six months of 2017, some 36 million more than in the same period of 2016. At 6%, growth was well above the trend of recent […]

The most recent data concerning the global population is fascinating. According to United Nations, on average there are 100 women for every 102 men, 26% of the 7.6 billion world’s population are children aged 15 […]