Hugh Evans, CEO of Global Citizen, left, listens as Actor Danai Gurira, center, addresses attendees of the Global Citizen Now conference, Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in New York. Fran Katsoudas is right. – This week's Global Citizen NOW conference featured appeals for long-term investments in the African continent's fast-growing youth population andworldwide, as the international advocacy organization seeks to drive resources toward antipoverty causes.
“We are ridiculously wealthy, from the cobalt to the lithium to the diamonds to the rubber to the oil," she said."But often you don’t see us in control of it.” “The best athletes in the world, in my estimation, are in Africa," Umenyiora told the AP."It’s just they haven’t been developed. They haven’t been trained.”
Former Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven pitched development assistance as a mutually beneficial investment, not a one-sided act of charity. Other speakers shared strategies for engaging authentically with young people online. Anitta told the AP that she hosts classes on Instagram Live so that her fans can learn with her about environmental issues like rainforest protection.