The FfD4 is taking place at a time when the world is reeling with multiple crises: growing inequalities within and between countries, unsustainable debt burdens faced by Global South countries undermining the realization of human rights and the provision of public services, structural gender inequalities, decent work deficit, continued corporate tax avoidance and evasion and illicit financial flows, rise in conflicts and militarism, cuts in official development assistance (ODA) and failure to uphold longstanding commitments, shrinking civic space, the worsening triple planetary crisis, widespread hunger and malnutrition, growing fractures in the multilateral trade system, and rapidly declining international cooperation.
3 rd EU-AU Ministerial Meeting, 21 May 2025 Joint communique
The Ministers of Foreign Affairs of Member States of the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU) concluded their 3rd Ministerial Meeting, taking stock of progress on the Joint Vision for 2030 for a renewed Partnership, adopted at the 6th EU-AU Summit in 2022. This Ministerial paves the way for the 7th AU-EU Summit, which will take place in Africa, in 2025, marking 25 years of the partnership since the Cairo Summit in 2000.
Civil Society Declaration Finance In Common Summit (FiCS) | Fostering Infrastructure And Finance For Just and Sustainable Growth
The confluence of rising inequality, debt crises, and the escalating climate emergency demands that Public Development Banks (PDBs) demonstrate genuine leadership in driving just, sustainable development. At this critical juncture, PDBs must move beyond rhetoric and commit to concrete, transformative actions, placing human rights, community leadership, and environmental sustainability at the core of all financing decisions. Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) call on PDBs to embrace this responsibility and champion a new era of development finance.
Introduction to the 4th China-Africa Economic and Trade Expo
The 4th CAETE is scheduled to be held in Changsha, Hunan in June 2025, with over 10,000 participants expected. The event will uphold the guiding principles outlined in President Xi Jinping’s significant remarks on China-Africa cooperation and his congratulatory letter to the 1st CAETE. To implement the “Ten Partnership Actions”, a variety of activities will be organized to bring together governments, local authorities, think tanks, enterprises, and financial institutions from both China and Africa and other parties to deliberate cooperation endeavors. It is expected to make solid progress in fostering high-quality Belt and Road cooperation and an all-weather China-Africa community with a shared future for the new era.
African Group Inputs for Financing for Development (FfD4) | Global Financing Framework
The African Group reaffirms the centrality of the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA) as a guiding framework for financing sustainable development. However, the existing international financial architecture does not meet the financial needs of African countries, particularly in times of crises. To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the global financing system must address systemic challenges such as high debt burdens, trade barriers and financial market volatility.
Worrying Patterns of Abductions And Enforced Disappearances in Kenya
There have been thirteen (13) more cases of abductions or enforced disappearances in the last three (3) months bringing to eight-two (82) the total cases since June 2024. Seven (7) of the recent abduction cases were reported in the month of December 2024 with six (6) of them still missing, bringing to twenty-nine (29) the total number of persons still missing since June 2024.
Statement On The Protests Against Enforced Disappearances And Abductions in Kenya
The Youth Cafe would like to commend protestors for the peaceful manner in which they conducted themselves during the demonstrations. Protestors generally conducted themselves with restraint despite the provocation, arrests and brutality meted by the police officers who lobbed teargas to disperse peaceful demonstrators
Beijing +30 Global Youth And Adolescents Recommendations Priorities
Eliminate all forms of gender-based violence, online and offline, by eradicating root causes, with full respect for the rights of survivors, strengthening survivor-centered support systems, ensuring consent-based legal definitions of rape, and protecting privacy through sensitized justice and law enforcement systems.
Global Digital Public Infrastructure Summit Outcome Statement | Contribute To The Digital Transformation Journeys
The Global DPI Summit, hosted in Cairo, Egypt from 1-3 October 2024, brought together representatives from more than 100 countries with diverse stakeholders from the public sector, private industry, and civil society to create a fertile ground for dialogue, knowledge exchange, and collaborations. The Summit focused on the powerful impact of safe and inclusive implementations of digital public infrastructure (DPI) to accelerate the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Unconstitutional Changes Of Government In Africa | Africa Governance Report 2023 Key Findings And Recommendations
Unconstitutional changes of government are an overthrow of a constitutionally elected government. Therefore, elections are an integral aspect of the definition of UCG. Defined under article 23 of the African Charter on Democracy, Elections, and Governance, in universal terms, are determined as having to be conducted with integrity if it is based on the democratic principles of universal suffrage and political equality as reflected in international standards and national constitutional and legal frameworks in which the freeness and fairness of the process are guaranteed. Its management must also reflect that constitutional and legal imperative and respect for human rights such as freedom to form political parties, freedoms of expression, association, and of the press among others.