With technical support from the International Labour Organization, the new regional platform will strengthen the use of comparable labour market data to inform employment and decent work policies across Southern Africa.
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Nearly half of the world’s 20 fastest-growing economies in 2025 were projected to be in Africa. As roads, railways, dams, and development reshape the continent, a critical question emerges: how can Africa pursue economic growth while protecting the biodiversity and natural systems that sustain it? Ahead of the 17th Conference of the Parties to the…
Ghana’s political parties and citizens need to confront a basic reality that is too often lost in the intensity of our political competition: Ghana is still a developing country. We have not yet built the industrial capacity, infrastructure, technological base, productive employment system and institutional strength associated with highly developed economies, and millions of Ghanaians…
Culture finally gets a seat at the development table—now comes the hard part – Türkiye Today
One of the most important economic consequences of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization’s recent September Bishkek summit is the institutional bridge that could allow dozens of already existing Russia-Africa, China-Africa, Central Asia-Africa and EAEU-Africa projects to begin operating within a wider Eurasian framework.
Africa, despite being home to nearly a fifth of humanity, remains underrepresented in the energy transition narrative. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has repeatedly flagged that the continent attracts only around 3 percent of global energy investment, even though it needs more than US$200 billion annually by 2030 to meet its development and climate goals.
