COVID-19 has taught us a lesson: time is absolutely not on our side. The arrival of the first vaccines on the continent represent a great opportunity but also a logistical challenge where the African Solidarity will be tested and needed more than ever. Failure to deliver is not an option.
To address the challenges facing Africa in food security, education, health and energy, as well as bridge the digital divide, it is essential for African policy makers to harness innovation and the potential brought by digital technologies.
Written by OHRLLS The world is in crisis. COVID-19. Climate change. Economic collapse. These crises are overlapping, existential and concurrent. And they herald great change, some of which is already upon us.
The Special Adviser on Africa to the 麻豆APP Secretary-General, Under-Secretary-General Cristina Duarte, has been officially sworn into office by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres. Ms. Duarte took her oath of office at a virtual ceremony in New York on 3 February 2021.
Illicit Financial Flows (IFFs) are plaguing the whole world, but in Africa the poorest populations are paying the highest price. “Illicit financial flows represent an example of systemic inequalities as they significantly impact the poorest and most vulnerable groups,” underscores Munir Akram.
As the world confronts its largest economic contraction since the Second World War and the current crisis erodes already scarce resources, Africa and its advocates are calling for a paradigm shift in the approach to development financing, to help the continent address current challenges and build back better for the future.
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