From UNEP
By 2050, a whopping 1.33 billion people will inhabit African cities – almost 900 million more than today. Africa’s pace of urbanization is the fastest in the world, which means that, in 20 years, half of the continent’s population will be city dwellers.
And with great numbers of people comes an enormous amount of trash. […]
From UN-Habitat
Starting in Nairobi, Kenya and ending in Abuja, Nigeria, UN-Habitat and its partners the Major Group for Children and Youth sprinted across Africa to raise awareness and recognize the value of youth in the new urban agenda – Habitat III. In three events which engaged over 500 youth representing youth-led agencies from 20 different […]
From The World Bank
We hear that girls in Africa don’t have the same opportunities as boys to get a decent education, that discrimination is shutting women out of the jobs and assets they need to provide a better standard of living for their families, that the benefits of economic growth are being wiped out because […]
This blog post is a collaboration between Winifred Ahupa and Ala Oueslati
Something tugs me here
In my belly
Like the strings of a banjo
Struck by hands or legs
Your might defies what
A child possesses
Your birthsong of love
Filters in, slowly at first
Like the emergence of
A baby lunar crescent
Then with a suddenness
You kick the walls of me
Sending jolts of lyrics-
That dispels […]
By Pia Fleig
I am a European. I have received a very good education, I have succeeded in my A-levels, I can go to any University I want and study more than a human mind can imagine. And yet, I feel like I know so little of reality. As much as my school tried to teach […]
SAIIA-Six young people from SAIIA’s youth programmes ensured that the voice of South African youth was heard in regional negotiations for the upcoming World Humanitarian Summit, which will set the agenda for global humanitarian action.
“The voice of the youth is seldom included in higher level negotiations. This is largely due to the fact that the […]
(UN News Centre) 8 September 2014 – Almost 30 million children are out of school in emergency or conflict affected countries following the targeting of schools and the displacement of millions of children forced from their homes and studies, the United Nations Children’s Fund said today.
“For children living through emergencies, education is a life line,” […]
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