UNESCO: Côte d’Ivoire voices Africa Group priorities at Executive Board

On October 9, 2026, Ambassador Bakayoko-Ly Ramata, Côte d’Ivoire’s permanent delegate to UNESCO and vice-president of the Africa Group on its Executive Board, presented the continent’s priorities at the board’s 225th session. She called for the 2023 Recommendation on education for peace to be better incorporated into school curricula and teacher training, and for UNESCO’s Global Priority Africa to receive funding that delivers tangible results. She also stressed dialogue’s role in building peace, the protection of African languages and knowledge linked to biodiversity, and welcomed an Olympic truce ahead of the Youth Olympic Games in Dakar from October 31 to November 13.