Raphael Obonyo
From poverty to the pinnacles of power A Kenyan boy’s odyssey My name is Raphael Obonyo from Kenya. I grew…
Youth can be agents of positive change
Jayathma Wickramanayake, 27, from Sri Lanka, is the new UN Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth. Her role is to expand the…
South African tourism holding steady
Tourists undetered amid reports of historic water crisis in the country’s second largest city Recent reports that Cape Town, a…
The hashtag revolution gaining ground
Africa’s millennials are using technology to drive change When some 276 teenage girls were kidnapped from their boarding school in…
Peacekeeping success in Liberia
From 2003 to 2005, retired Lieutenant General Daniel Opande was the force commander of the peacekeepers of the UN Mission…
Mission accomplished: 15 years of peacekeeping success in Liberia
As the last contigents of peacekeepers depart, UN promises to remain engaged On a bright, sunny day in January this…
Bringing rural women to the frontline
Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, United Nations Under-Secretary-General and executive director of UN Women, recently began a second term in office. In her…