The development of astronomy and space science in Africa has grown significantly over the past few years. These advancements make the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals more achievable, and open up the possibility of new beneficial collaborations.

This paper presents a very brief overview of the 10 Regional Offices (ROADs) and Language Centres (LOADs) established as part of the IAU's Astronomy-for-Development effort. Due to space constraints here, longer 2-page papers on each office are available as Supplementary Material in the electronic proceedings as well as on the website of the IAU's Office of Astronomy for Development (www.astro4dev.org). Authors are listed in alphabetical order of last name. Astronomy is the science that connects the world; it is the science that aims to answer the most fundamental questions of the Universe we live in. The benefits of astronomy to society extend far beyond those of scientific knowledge. Astronomy can be used to help achieve the Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the United Nations. The IAU East-Asia Regional Office of Astronomy for Development (EA-ROAD) and the Chinese Language Expertise Center (LOAD) were established in 2012, and operate in the People's Republic of China, Mongolia, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea and encompassing roughly 20% of the world's population. The consortium uses astronomy as a tool for development in the East-Asia region, with the aim of utilising all aspects of astronomy and astrophysics to promote development in the entire East-Asia region. Armenia hosts the South West and Central Asian (SWCA) ROAD. So far, 6 countries have officially joined (Armenia, Georgia, Iran, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, and Turkey). The SWCA ROAD plays an important role in maintaining contacts between the region's

This is a report from NoRCELs Blue Earth Project symposium BEP2022 held online on January 8th, 2022. We are reporting the outcome pertaining to the following question: Is Humanity Settling its own Fate on Ecological Survival? A succinct conclusion drawn is that the Earth is facing the sixth mass extinction of flora and fauna; this being different from the previous five extinctions, in that it is entirely due to mankinds activities. Five invited eminent speakers delivered their input, highlighting the fact that there is extensive deterioration of the environment at large, coupled with an unprecedented demise of ecosystems leading to the extinction of species across the globe.

This study focuses on spectral energy distributions and light-curves of blazars and radio galaxies, and the testing of the existing models with a view to appropriately predict a new model that will nearly accurately present the nature of the energy outflows of these super-massive bodies. Understanding blazar emission is very important as it relates more directly to the physics of the AGN’s central black hole. X-ray, radio and gamma-ray wavelength range data on blazars and radio galaxies from archived data has been collected and a detailed investigation of the spectral energy distribution patterns of the blazars and radio galaxies carried out so as to fit the data in the various models. The results of this investigation will be discussed in detail in this presentation.

<p>The peaceful uses of outer space has, since many years back, provided a powerful tool for furthering the well-being of humanity and the earth’s environment.  Modern space applications are fundamental tools for achieving the United Nations Global Sustainable Development Goals. It is therefore justifiable that a land-linked country Zambia should, as a matter of principle, begin to put resources together to develop her capabilities in space science and technology, build capacity and apply the technology for social and economic development of her people. In this paper we discuss the steps taken by the Zambian Government to roll out a space programme. On parallel sides, public universities, namely the University of Zambia, the Copperbelt University, Kwame Nkrumah University and Mulungushi University have started developing study programmes that will produce the required human resource for this robust programme.</p>