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The UN Secretary-General opened the General Assembly high-level debate with a stark message: the world is awash with overlapping crises – from wars and humanitarian emergencies to climate breakdown – and leaders must decide now “what kind of world we choose to build together.” Each September, heads of state and government gather in New York…
The Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) has partnered with the Novo Nordisk Foundation, a Danish enterprise Foundation, to strengthening public health workforce capacity for Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) surveillance across ten African Union (AU) Member States. The Novo Nordisk Foundation has awarded a grant of USD 2.65m towards the initiative, and the…
Twenty-one years after Facebook’s launch, Australia’s top 25 news outlets now have a combined 27.6 million followers on the platform. They rely on Facebook’s reach more than ever, posting far more stories there than in the past. With access to Meta’s Content Library (Meta is the owner of Facebook), our big data study analysed more…
We first interviewed Reunion Island chanteuse Maya Kamaty back in 2019 when she was in Montreal to perform at Festival International Nuits d’Afrique. We loved her vision of re-imagining the traditional maloya music for the 21st century. We would suggest revisiting that interview to get a full picture of her and her music as a…
New York — President Joseph Nyuma Boakai has used his address to the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly to position Liberia as both a beneficiary and custodian of global multilateralism, pledging to advance Africa’s interests during the country’s historic election to the UN Security Council while renewing a call for justice through…
We, the Committee of Heads of State and Government (CHSG) of the Africa CDC, meeting virtually on the margins of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80): CONSIDERING Assembly/AU/Dec.924 (XXXVIII) of February 2025, which recognized the pivotal role played by Africa CDC in safeguarding Africa’s public health by providing strategic direction,…
Addis Ababa / New York — The Committee of Heads of State and Government (CHSG) of the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) convened an Extraordinary Virtual Session on the margins of the 80th Session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 80). The meeting was chaired at the highest level of…
This Tuesday, September 23, the 80th session of the UN General Assembly will open in New York. Its theme– »Better Together: More than 80 Years of Serving Peace, Development, and Human Rights »–is eminently laudable. It offers an opening in an international context no longer characterized by a Cold War, but rather by real, deadly…
As Africa’s conflicts become more regionalized, forcibly displaced populations increasingly face the predicament of fleeing into neighboring countries also experiencing conflict. Highlights An estimated 45.7 million Africans are forcibly displaced–refugees, internally displaced, or asylum seekers–comprising 4 percent of the total population. This continues a pattern of 15 years of steadily increasing numbers of forcibly displaced…
The African Development Bank (AfDB) recently had a change of leadership as Dr Sidi Oud Tah from Mauritania took over the helm of affairs as the ninth President from the outgone Nigeria’s Dr Adewunmi Adesina. Adesina had been on the saddle between 2015 and 2025, being two terms of five years each. Established in 1964,…
