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African Leaders commit to Mind the Gap – Invest in Water as the race to achieve SDG 6 in Africa accelerates

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African leaders show the “gap” during the campaign launch in the United Nations HQ. (Centre left) H.E. Macky Sall, President of the Republic of Senegal; (Second from left) H.E. Jakaya Kikwete, Former President of the United Republic of Tanzania; (Centre) H.E. Josefa Sacko, African Union Commissioner, ARBE; (Centre left) Harsen Nyambe, Director: Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment at the African Union; (Second from left) Nardos Bekele-Thomas, CEO of AUDA-NEPAD; (Right) Hon. Carl Schlettwein, Minister of Agriculture, Water, & Forestry, Namibia; (Left) Alex Simalabwi, Executive Director: High-Level Panel Secretariat

African leaders have pledged to mobilise US$30bn per year by 2030 to achieve water security and sustainable sanitation on the continent through institutional private-public partnerships, sector reform, and higher national…

Female farmer working on her rice field in Mozambique African Development Fund $20 million Mozambique

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The Board of Directors of the African Development Fund, the African Development Bank Group’s concessional lending window, has approved a grant of $19.98 million to finance the implementation of Mozambique’s Economic…

Commonwealth, IICA sign partnership to boost food security in the Caribbean

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The Commonwealth Secretariat and Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate on key agricultural and fisheries challenges confronting the Caribbean. The…

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Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava provides a vision for achieving the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development from the vantage point of his work as President of the United Nations Economic and…

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Olusegun Obasanjo, former President of Nigeria and member of the Africa Progress Panel, calls for ambitious, efficient and properly financed multilateral cooperation to meet Africa’s energy challenges. Can the world…

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Dr Akinwumi Adesina, President of the African Development Bank, discusses the potential of agro-industrial development and asserts that the future of Africa depends on agriculture. Agriculture, which contributes 16.2 per…

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Ameenah Gurib-Fakim, President of Mauritius, and Enrique Peña Nieto, President of Mexico, explain the work of the High Level Panel on Water, and call on all levels of government, civil…

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African Leaders commit to Mind the Gap – Invest in Water as the race to achieve SDG 6 in Africa accelerates

Mozambique: African Development Fund approves $20 million to improve business environment and drive investments to climate-smart agriculture

Commonwealth, IICA sign partnership to boost food security in the Caribbean

2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development: a New Path for Development

Power, People, Planet: Seizing Africa’s Energy and Climate Opportunities

Agro-Allied Industrialisation in Africa

A New Approach to Water Management

Cameroon Signs its Country Programme Framework (CPF) for 2024-2029

Commonwealth and Mauritian Government host webinar to help businesses protect human rights

One year on from catastrophic floods, millions of children in Pakistan still need urgent support

Kenya: Ministry of Health partners with WHO to conclude National Multi-Hazard Preparedness Plan Workshop