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Africa Renewal - Volume 29, Issue 3, 2015
Volume 29, Issue 3, 2015
The Africa Renewal magazine examines the many issues that confront the people of Africa, its leaders and its international partners: sustainable development goals, economic reform, debt, education, health, women's empowerment, conflict and civil strife, democratization, investment, trade, regional integration and many other topics. It tracks policy debates. It provides expert analysis and on-the-spot reporting to show how those policies affect people on the ground. And, it highlights the views of policy-makers, non-governmental leaders and others actively involved in efforts to transform Africa and improve its prospects in the world today. The magazine also reports on and examines the many different aspects of the United Nations’ involvement in Africa, especially within the framework of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD).
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Sustainable Development Goals are in sync with Africa's priorities
Author: Kingsley IghoborOn 26 September, a day after world leaders adopted the new development agenda known as the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, prominent personalities in world politics, social activism, business and entertainment gathered in New York’s Central Park for an annual event organized by the non-governmental organization, Global Citizens.
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Amina Mohammed: “I foresee a world without poverty”
Author: Amina J. MohammedAmina Mohammed is the United Nations secretary-general’s former special adviser on post-2015 development planning. She was heavily involved in planning the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), a new development agenda to be implemented over the next 15 years, and in getting UN member states, the private sector and civil society to agree on them. The SDGs were formally adopted by 193 countries on 25 September. In this exclusive interview with Africa Renewal’s Kingsley Ighobor, Ms. Mohammed talks about the evolution of the process, the commitments made, the challenges ahead, and why the goals, if implemented, could transform the world.
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What are Sustainable Development Goals?
Author: United NationsThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are a new, universal set of goals, targets and indicators that UN member states will be expected to use to frame their agendas and policies over the next 15 years. The 17 SDGs follow, and expand on, the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which focused only on developing countries.
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Carlos Lopes: Financing Africa’s development agenda
Author: Carlos LopesThe Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) will build on the expiring Millennium Development Goals, which were launched in 2000 to end extreme poverty by 2015. What do the SDGs mean for African countries? Carlos Lopes, the Executive Secretary of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA), shared his thoughts with Africa Renewal’s Jocelyne Sambira in Addis Ababa and Kingsley Ighobor in New York.
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Maged Abdelaziz: Africa’s Agenda 2063 is in harmony with SDGs
Author: Maged AbdelazizAt the annual Africa Week in October 2015 held at the United Nations headquarters, representatives of the African Union’s development institutions held discussions with their UN counterparts on the AU’s Agenda 2063 and the newly-adopted Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Africa Renewal’s Franck Kuwonu talked to the UN secretary-general’s special adviser on Africa, Maged Abdelaziz, about UN-AU collaboration in implementing the two agendas.
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Ibrahim Mayaki: Mobilizes funds for regional infrastructure
Author: Ibrahim MayakiIbrahim Mayaki is the chief executive officer of the New Partnership for Africa’s Development (NEPAD), a developmental agency of the African Union. Africa Renewal’s Franck Kuwonu caught up with him at the UN headquarters in New York, where he was attending high-level meetings, to talk about the state of the proposed regional infrastructural projects on the continent.
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Nelson Mandela Prize winners feted
Author: Bo LiThe planting of a small food garden this summer just outside United Nations headquarters in New York was more than a decorative effort by a gardener with a green thumb. It was one of many “Time to Serve” activities in the worldwide ‘Take Action, Inspire Change’ campaign motivated by former South African President the late Nelson Mandela.
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Women, peace & security
Author: Zipporah MusauAs conflicts and crises in Africa took a more complex turn in recent years, there has been a devastating upsurge of violence against women and girls. The abduction of 200 Chibok girls from a school in northern Nigeria by Boko Haram militants in April 2014 remains a tragic case in point. So has the sexual violence being used as a weapon of war in Cameroon, Chad, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), South Sudan and Sudan, among others.
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Ethiopia: Fixing agriculture
Author: Masimba TafirenyikaA charity song, “We Are the World,” written by US award-winning singers Lionel Richie and the late Michael Jackson, raised more than $60 million in 1985 for victims of the worst famine to hit the Horn of Africa in a century. Today, 30 years later, Ethiopia is again faced with a crisis — a crop failure triggered by erratic rainfall. The drought could pose the same threat to the livelihoods of about eight million Ethiopians.
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Towards a unified African market
Author: Sara CanalsFor several years, experts from the three largest trading blocs in Africa — the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the East African Community (EAC) and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) — were locked in intense negotiations over a free trade agreement whose aim is to bring about a unified and liberalized single market. The talks finally bore fruit on 10 June 2015 when 26 African countries signed the Tripartite Free Trade Area (TFTA) agreement in Cairo, Egypt.
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African leaders pledge to fight for a deal on climate change
Authors: Dan Shepard and Kingsley IghoborAs African leaders, climate change experts and scholars understand it, the climate change agreement currently being negotiated and expected to be adopted in Paris in December is an opportunity to emphasize the link between climate and development.
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MDGs: An assessment of Africa’s progress
Authors: Jaspreet Kindra and Juliet Wasswa-MugambwaIn just two decades, primary school enrolment in two of the world’s poorest countries — Niger and Burkina Faso — increased from 20% to more than 60%. Despite this encouraging trend, both countries are rated as having failed to reach the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of universal primary education by 2015.
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Africa wired
Author: Pavithra RaoUsing the popular iPhone smartphone, researchers at US-based Stanford University have created a simple, portable and inexpensive diagnostic tool to diagnose river blindness, a tropical disease caused by parasitic worm larvae from an infected fly.
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