Access digital collection of stories, articles, Op-eds, blogs, ethnographic photography, videos, interviews and data amplifying the Africa borderlands experiences and voices and contributing to ‘Leave No One Behind’
The Encyclopaedia covers a total of 106 terrestrial border pairs and trios spread across 54 African Union (AU) member states with an estimated 270 million borderlands people.
Access authoritative Africa borderlands socio-economic data using interactive charts, graphs and summary tables. Compare data across different border pairs and against national and international benchmarks and track progress in the advancement towards the SDGs.
Africa's borderlands and their communities are a unique source of ingenuity, places of untapped
opportunities and great resilience. In many of these regions, insecurity and poverty disguise
the true socio-economic potential of borderlands and their communities. In improved
circumstances, borderland communities could thrive by unlocking their potential and rich culture
that will be critical to achieving Agenda 2030
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