The international community is being urged to provide greater support to Zimbabwe as it strives to achieve development goals.
Making the case is Bishow Parajuli, UN Resident Coordinator and Resident Representative in Zimbabwe for the UN Development Programme (UNDP).
He spoke to Dianne Penn during a recent visit to UN Headquarters in New York.
Welcome to our latest UN and Africa podcast, from UN News.
Before the arrival of the Aamin Free Ambulance Service in Somalia’s capital twelve years ago, victims of car crashes or terror attacks, were taken to hospital in wheelbarrows.
The volunteer service operates around the clock, and Michael Keating, who’s in charge of the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM), is calling for more support for the vital “first-responder”, which has saved hundreds of lives across the capital Mogadishu.
The signing of the first ever Free Trade Area agreement by 44 African nations has been hailed as a “giant stride forward” by the UN. We’ll talk about what it means for the continent, and hear from the first Force Commander of the mission in Liberia as operations wrap up, together with the man responsible for the UN’s civilian protection work across South Sudan.
Welcome to our latest UN and Africa podcast, from UN News.
We’ll be hearing from Sudan, where a micro-financing project is changing the lives of rural women farmers, and we hear from the deputy chief of the UN mission in the Central African Republic on how armed groups are “spreading terror” stoking fear and anger among civilians forced to flee their homes.
Welcome to our latest ‘UN and Africa’ podcast from UN News.
We talk to some of the people involved in two small-scale projects supported by the UN, which have helped transform their communities, in rural Uganda, and South Sudan.
Music by Kitengesa Library Band.
Welcome to the first episode of our revised ‘UN and Africa’ podcast.
We talk to Gloria Browne-Marshall, a constitutional law professor and author, about the status of people of African descent across the world.
Music Credit: Studio Mali - Youssou N'Dour's Wake UP - "It's Africa Calling" Remix by IntraHealth International
