Women and girls still don't get the support they need, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres said, and African nations cannot develop with "one hand tied behind their backs."
The global financial system is cheating African nations, the U.N. chief charged on Saturday in calling for another "Bretton Woods moment" to sort things out.
U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told the opening of the African Union's annual summit in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa on Saturday that Africa's developing nations are rich with potential but repeatedly left in the lurch, oversaddled with high-interest debt payments.
A proposed 2% minimum tax on billionaires will be taken up at Brazil's G-20 Leaders' Summit in November.
The effects of climate change hit hard from the bombed streets of Gaza to the glitzy venues of the Paris Olympics.
The U.N.'s annual report card shows the Sustainable Development Goals improved from 85% off track last year.
Developing nations' 30% share of global public debt in 2023, particularly in Asia and Oceania, rose from 16% in 2010.
People's health, nature and farmland all suffer from the spiraling negative impacts, says the U.N. health agency
Landlocked between Russia and China, Mongolia depends on Russia to meet its energy needs and China to buy its exports.
The guidance comes weeks before the U.N. General Assembly takes up the issue of AMR at its high-level meeting this month.
More than a third of the funds will support aid efforts for people in Yemen (US$20 million) and Ethiopia (US$15 million).
