"AYA CHEBBI"

This year's International Women's Day theme "Women in leadership: Achieving an equal future in a COVID-19 world" celebrates the tremendous efforts by women and girls around the world in shaping a more equal future and recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Annual high-level meeting of the UNAOC Group of Friends on “Shaping a Better World: Building Cohesive and Inclusive Societies in a Challenging COVID-19 Environment”.

The Special Adviser of the Secretary-General on Africa, Bience Philomina Gawana, said Africa, with approximately 220 million people are aged between 15 to 24, “is one of the world’s youngest continents,” and with this number projected to rise to about 350 million in the next decade “it is imperative that Africa harnesses this demographic dividend in silencing the guns.” UNIFEED

African youth activists call for greater inclusion of young people in continent’s development, as Security Council takes up ‘silencing the guns by 2020’ initiative at 8629th meeting.