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Deadline: August 25, 2026. The program targets young talented African nationals who are completing or have recently completed their Ph.D. in an area relevant to the World Bank’s work. The fellowship program has been very successful since its inception in building a strong pipeline of young African talent interested in a career in development, in international institutions, African governments, think tanks, and academia. The program offers selected fellows a six-month assignment at WBG offices in Washington, D.C. or in

Deadline: August 26, 2026. Africa CDC has developed a continental African Epidemic Service (AES) Program, a flagship training program aiming to enhance the capacity, capabilities, and partnerships of Africa's public health institutions. Its primary goal is to build capacity of mid-level professionals to control, prevent, detect, and respond to disease threats and outbreaks by employing science, policy, and data-driven interventions and programs effectively and efficiently whilst learning from best practices across the continent. The

Deadline: September 30, 2026. Under the 2026 cycle, UNESCO and the Government of Japan will award 10 fellowships to highly qualified young researchers from Africa, Small Island Developing States, Ukraine and Türkiye. The fellowships will support innovative and high-quality postgraduate research related to heritage conservation and management, sustainable development and artificial intelligence, with particular attention to interdisciplinary research connecting these themes with social, ethical, governance and contextual dimensions. Through research stays in Japanese universities and

Deadline: August 3, 2026. The African Women Leaders Network (AWLN), jointly supported by the African Union (AU) and the United Nations (UN), today opened applications for the 8th Intergenerational Retreat (IGR 8), a flagship gathering that brings together generations of African women leaders to build skills, forge networks, and drive collective action for the continent's transformation. 40 young women leaders will be selected for a fully sponsored retreat in Libreville, Gabon this December, bringing together

Deadline: July 30, 2026. The Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA), is inviting applications from young journalism graduates, early career journalists and other young professionals with a passion for journalism in Ghana to participate in the 9th edition of the Next Generation Investigative Journalism (NGIJ) Fellowship.The fellowship is focused on accountability journalism and anti-corruption reporting. Overall, the project seeks to strengthen the capacity of the media, especially investigative journalists, to produce investigative reports corruption –

Deadline: August 3, 2026. The Africa CDC, therefore, seeks to recruit Financial Specialists from citizens of any Member State of the African Union or the African Diaspora to join the roster of the African Volunteers Health Corps as part of the Kofi Annan Scholars program. This is not recruitment for employment but volunteer services delivered within the Africa CDC/AU framework that recognizes and rewards the experts for their time and skills under the existing rules, regulations and enumeration guidelines.

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