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Nigeria: You Are Not Alone – How Women Find Strength After Childbirth

May 13, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Editor’s Picks, Health & Wellness, Special Features, West Africa, Women’s Health

Midwives in Sudan work to ensure that every childbirth is safe (file photo). Womi sat on the edge of the hospital bed, her newborn nestled beside her, tears quietly streaming down her face, not from pain or joy, but from an overwhelming wave of exhaustion, fear, and isolation. Despite the flood of congratulatory messages in…

One in Four Female Genital Mutilation Cases Now Carried Out By Health Workers

May 9, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Editor’s Picks, Education, Advocacy & Careers, Health & Wellness, Social Justice

A blade used to perform female genital mutilation. Female genital mutilation (FGM) is becoming less common worldwide, but when it does occur, it is increasingly performed by professional healthcare workers, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Monday. While the health sector worldwide plays a key role in stopping the abusive practice of FGM…

WOMEN CRUSH ON FORSHESAFRICA.ORG

May 9, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Editor’s Picks

Forshesafrica seeks to focus its lens on women making strives in all areas in the professional field. Women are breaking boundaries and rubbing shoulders with their male opponents in the various professional fields. Here are just a few African women leaders among many, many others, who inspire us as women with substance. Unity Dow Unity…

Pregnancy trial to prevent anaemia launched

May 9, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Editor’s Picks, Fitness & Nutrition, Health & Wellness, Women’s Health

Researchers are hoping a new treatment for pregnant women could help reduce the risk of stillbirth. Figures from a trial being led by NHS Blood and Transplant and the University of Oxford show one in three expectant mothers will develop anaemia. It is a condition where the blood produces a lower-than-normal amount of red blood…

African women at higher risk of pre-eclampsia – a dangerous pregnancy complication

May 8, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Editor’s Picks, Health & Wellness, Women’s Health

Research indicates that pre-eclampsia has a genetic basis. African women are at greater risk than other population groups. Nurse checking a pregnant woman at Mukujju clinic, Tororo, Uganda. Jonathan Torgovnik for The Hewlett Foundation/Reportage by Getty Images Pre-eclampsia is a danger to pregnant women. It’s a complication characterised by high blood pressure and organ damage, arising…

In Kenya, girls are sold into marriage to stave off starvation from drought

May 8, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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East Africa, Education, Advocacy & Careers, Food, Regional News, Women’s Health

Women take donkeys laden with jerry cans to a community water point in Kambinye, Kenya [Fredrik Lerneryd/Oxfam]

Kenya faces surge in gender-based violence: over 7,000 cases in a year

May 1, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Gender Equality, Social Justice, Women’s Health

A protester shouts as she holds a placard during a march against the rising cases of femicide, in downtown Nairobi, Kenya. Kenya is facing an alarming surge in gender-based violence, with over 7,100 cases reported since September 2023, including 100 documented murders of women since August last year, according to government records. Among the survivors…

Nigeria: You Are Not Alone – How Women Find Strength After Childbirth

WOMEN CRUSH ON FORSHESAFRICA.ORG

Pregnancy trial to prevent anaemia launched

African women at higher risk of pre-eclampsia – a dangerous pregnancy complication

In Kenya, girls are sold into marriage to stave off starvation from drought

Ending Period Poverty: How Pad Banks Empower Ghanaian Girls

UNFPA, Unicef, GOL Launch School-Based Menstrual Pad Banks in Liberia

From family farm to climate tech: How one Kenyan woman is helping farmers outsmart drought

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