Driving sustainable development results in Africa: A woman leader’s perspective

By UNSSC — We recently spoke to Alice Ruhweza, Africa Region Director for the Worldwide Fund for Nature. In this spotlight interview, she shares a thought-provoking account of her experience as a female sustainable development leader. She gives us insight into some of the challenges that she has faced and explains how UNSSC’s Sustainable Development Leaders Mastermind Group …

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Africa: Fuel Shortage Crisis – Who is Responsible?

By Tijani Salami and Jane Otai — Kenya’s recent fuel crisis has left petrol pumps dry. Politicians are blaming each other and giving varied reasons for the shortage, from the government being inept to government plans to increase prices in an effort to get money for campaigning to the misappropriation of funds meant to subsidize …

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Jensi Sartin

Jensi says that his experience growing up in the rainforests of Borneo – where deforestation was already under way – prepared him for his professional career as an advocate for the world’s oceans. “All of these things are connected,” says Sartin, whose organization documents the health of Indonesia’s numerous coral reefs and devises community-based strategies …

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