The 2025 African Defence Leaders’ Conference, which was recently held in Kenya, highlighted a wide range of security challenges facing the continent, including violence, extremism, the climate crisis, and misinformation. Despite Africa’s abundant mineral potential, a multitude of overlapping crises continue to hinder the continent’s development and integration.

Although the “fever” of food prices has cooled down globally, food security challenges remain serious for African countries, as drought, unrest and power shortages are still pushing millions of Africans into starvation.

To help Africa overcome its most severe food crisis ever, the development partners have pledged tens of billions of US dollars to boost food production in the continent over the next five years. Analysts said the key to solving hunger in Africa is the enhancement of production capacity, instead of depending on imports and aid.

The call for increased assistance for vulnerable countries to respond to climate change has been receiving widespread support from the international community.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres stressed that developed economies are responsible for the majority of greenhouse gas emissions throughout their history.