The United Nations (UN) Special Rapporteur on the Human Right to Water and Sanitation is beginning a visit to Kenya today, to assess the country’s water and sanitation. Catarina de Albuquerque will assess the Kenya’s achievements and...
Africa needs significant investment, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the General Assembly’s high-level debate on investment in Africa. “In recent years, Africa’s economic growth has been higher than in many other regions. Even at the peak of...
Foreign direct investment (FDI) inflows to Africa rose by 4% to $57 billion in 2013, driven by international and regional market-seeking and infrastructure. In Southern Africa, flows almost doubled to $13 billion, mainly due to record-high flows to...
The Institute of Waste Management of Southern Africa (IWMSA) has urged South Africans to reduce, reuse and recycle waste properly in support of World Environmental Day. World Environment Day (5 June) is the United Nation’s (UN) vehicle in promoting...
The first annual Sustainable Energy for All Forum is currently underway at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. Over one thousand leaders, experts and energy practitioners have gathered to participate, including members of government,...
The number of attacks by pirates in the Indian Ocean have gone down to just a handful annually but the job is not yet complete. That was the message from the Chairperson of the Contact Group on Piracy off the Coast of Somalia. The 16th plenary...
To rehabilitate its run-down infrastructure and attract more foreign direct investment, a United Nations expert says Zimbabwe requires $18 billion. Amarakoon Bandara of United Nations Development Programme was speaking at a conference on Special...
United Nations (UN) climate chief Christiana Figueres has called on the oil and gas industry to make a drastic shift to a clean, low-carbon future. Figueres appealed to the industry to become the solution rather than the problem to addressing the...
The United Nations (UN) Under-Secretary General and Executive Secretary for the Economic Commission for Africa, Carlos Lopes, has urged African countries to prioritise renewable energy and develop leap-frogging capabilities. Lopez, speaking at the...
