The greatest talking point in our country in recent weeks has been the declaration by President Muhammadu Buhari that he would seek a second term in office next year. And naturally so. Desire by any P ...

Jayathma Wickramanayake, 27, from Sri Lanka, is the new UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth. Her role is to expand the UN’s youth engagement and advocacy efforts. She also serves as an adviser to th ...

Tourists undetered amid reports of historic water crisis in the country’s second largest city Recent reports that Cape Town, a popular tourist destination in South Africa, will soon run out of water d ...

Africa’s millennials are using technology to drive change When some 276 teenage girls were kidnapped from their boarding school in northeastern Nigeria in April 2014, Oby Ezekwesili, a civil society a ...

From 2003 to 2005, retired Lieutenant General Daniel Opande was the force commander of the peacekeepers of the UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL). Tough but diplomatic, the Kenya Defence Forces officer in ...

As the last contigents of peacekeepers depart, UN promises to remain engaged On a bright, sunny day in January this year, Liberian president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf turned over power to George Weah, a d ...

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and executive director of UN Women, recently began a second term in office. In her first term, she drew attention to women’s issues globa ...