Kofi Annan and other Panel Members to launch 2014 Africa Progress Report — Grain, Fish, Money

Aliyekuwa katibu mkuu wa umoja wa mataifa Koffi Annan amemtaka rais wa Burundi Pierre Nkurunziza kujiuzulu

Katibu mkuu wa zamani wa umoja wa mataifa Kofi Annan amewasili nchini Cuba kuhamasisha mazungumzo ya amani.

Na Mwandishi Maalum   Ban Ki Moon, Katibu Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa, kwa masikitiko makubwa ametangaza kukubali kwake kujiuzuru kwa mwakilishi maalum wa Umoja wa mataifa  na Muungano wa nchi za Kiarabu, Lakhdar Brahimi aliyekuwa akisimamia mazungumzo ya kutafuta Amani nchini Syria. Akitangaza mbele ya waandishi wa habari kuhusu kujiuzulu kwa Bw. Brahimi ambaye pia alikuwapo kwenye mkutano huo, Katibu Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa, amesema mwanadiplomasia huyo mzoefu ataachia wadhifa wake...

African governments, investors, and international financial institutions must significantly scale up investment in energy to unlock Africa’s potential as a global low-carbon superpower.

That is the main message of a new report from Kofi Annan’s Africa Progress Panel, Power, People, Planet: Seizing Africa’s Energy and Climate Opportunities (http://www.africaprogresspanel.org). The report calls for a ten-fold increase in power generation to provide all Africans with access to electricity by...

ABUJA, Nigeria, May 8, 2014/ -- Rasilimali za Afrika zenye utajiri mwingi zinatoa nafasi ya kipekee ya ufanisi katika uimarishaji wa maisha ya raia wa Afrika, yasema ripoti mpya kubwa iliyozinduliwa leo na Kofi Annan, Katibu Mkuu wa zamani wa Umoja wa Mataifa, lakini mara nyingi sana rasilimali hizi huporwa na maafisa wafisadi pamoja na wawekezaji wa kigeni. Aidha, Ripoti hii inaonyesha kwamba kuongezeka kwa ukosefu wa usawa vilevile kunaizuia Afrika isiikamate nafasi hii ya...

Kofi Annan, Chair of the Africa Progress Panel.

Ripoti ya Jopo la Maendeleo ya Afrika ya mwaka huu inawahimiza viongozi wa Afrika kupambana na ukosefu wa usawa na kuitaka jamii ya ulimwengu kukabiliana na uporaji wa rasilimali za bara hili.

Rasilimali za Afrika zenye utajiri mwingi zinatoa nafasi ya kipekee ya ufanisi katika uimarishaji wa maisha ya raia wa Afrika, yasema ripoti mpya kubwa iliyozinduliwa leo na Kofi Annan, Katibu Mkuu wa zamani wa Umoja wa Mataifa, lakini mara nyingi sana...

Ahead of its summit in June, the AU has elevated the stemming of illegal transfer of capital as a top priority.

The global drive to end extreme poverty will not succeed without a shift in focus to the very poorest

 A new funding plan to deliver basic health and education for everyone is essential to end extreme poverty, according to The ONE Campaign’s DATA Report 2015: “Putting the Poorest First,” (http://www.one.org) which was launched today in Abidjan, in the margins of the African Development Bank Group Annual Meetings.

Download ‘DATA Report 2015 Executive...

The Chairman of the High Level Panel on The Global Response to Health Crisis President Dr.Jakaya Mrisho Kikwete, The Un Secretary General Ban Ki Moon(Third Left) pose fro a group Photo with other panel members at the UN Headquarters in New York this afternoon. Other panel members in the picture from left are, Marty Natalegawa(Indonesia), Micheline Calmy Rey(Switzeland) fourth left,Celso Amorim from Brazil(second right) and Rajiv Shah(right). On April this year the UN Secretary General Ban Ki...