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  • Gender Based Violence GBV prevention and life skills training to be integrated into national curricula in Somalia

    Gender Based Violence GBV prevention and life skills training to be integrated into national curricula in Somalia

    May 27, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    East Africa, Education, Advocacy & Careers, Gender Equality

    The Minister of Education, Culture and Higher Education of Somalia Farah Sheikh Abdulkadir has volunteered to integrate Gender Based Violence GBV prevention and life

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  • Barbra Banda (Zambia): “Africa is my foundation”

    Barbra Banda (Zambia): “Africa is my foundation”

    May 26, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    East Africa, Her Story, Spotlight Series

    The first player to score two consecutive hat-tricks at the Olympic Games, Barbra Banda continues to push the limits.● Just weeks away from

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  • Maternal Deaths Surge In Sudan As Women Bear Brunt of War

    Maternal Deaths Surge In Sudan As Women Bear Brunt of War

    May 26, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    East Africa, Politics & Governance, Social Justice, Women’s Health

    Health workers at the UNFPA Tunaydbah field hospital in Sudan’s eastern Gedaraf state provided critical maternal health care as flooding worsens the refugee

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  • ‘Bombs, Bodies, Broken Promises’ UN Women Chief Demands Action for Conflict-Affected Women

    ‘Bombs, Bodies, Broken Promises’ UN Women Chief Demands Action for Conflict-Affected Women

    May 26, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Editor’s Picks, Social Justice, Women’s Health

    Moses Sawasawa/WFP By Melody Chironda Too often, women are seen as indirect victims. But they are direct targets of bombs and missiles. Sima

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  • Africa: ‘A Silent Crisis’ – Obstetric Fibrosis Affects 500,000 Women, Yet It’s Fully Treatable

    Africa: ‘A Silent Crisis’ – Obstetric Fibrosis Affects 500,000 Women, Yet It’s Fully Treatable

    May 26, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Education, Advocacy & Careers, Women’s Health

    Sayon Idovic Loua/ UNFPA Guinea In the operating theatre of the Regional Hospital Labé, Dr. Kindi Diallo and his team perform surgery on

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  • INTERVIEW: Dr Natalia Kanem Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

    INTERVIEW: Dr Natalia Kanem Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)

    May 22, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Education, Advocacy & Careers, Gender Equality, Health & Wellness, Her Story, Others, Social Justice, Special Features, Women’s Health

    The Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) Dr. Natalia Kanem has revealed that her outfit together with the United Nations

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  • Rwanda and Kenya Changemakers Among Nine Recipients of 2025 Cartier Women’s Initiative Impact Awards

    Rwanda and Kenya Changemakers Among Nine Recipients of 2025 Cartier Women’s Initiative Impact Awards

    May 21, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Lifestyle & Inspiration, Women in Business

    Rwanda’s Yvette Ishimwe and Kenya-based Caitlin Dolkart are among this year’s nine Cartier Women’s Initiative 2025 Impact Awardees. They will be celebrated next

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  • British tourist arrested in Namibia over nude photos of children

    British tourist arrested in Namibia over nude photos of children

    May 21, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Editor’s Picks, Health & Wellness, Social Justice

    A British national has been arrested in Namibia for allegedly sexually molesting minors and taking nude photographs of them. Douglas Robert Brook is

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  • Zambians protest over heinous child rape reports

    Zambians protest over heinous child rape reports

    May 21, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Health & Wellness, Social Justice, Top Stories, Women’s Health

    A protest march has been held in Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, against a recent spate of reports of men raping children. Over the last

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  • Young Senegalese women market agribusiness on YouTube

    May 20, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Business & Economy, Women in Business

    A group of young women in Senegal have successfully launched an agribusiness by combining their new skills in filmmaking and farming, using social

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