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  • How Stigma Undermines Contraceptive Use Among Women in Sierra Leone

    How Stigma Undermines Contraceptive Use Among Women in Sierra Leone

    September 23, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Editor’s Picks, Her Story, Women’s Health

    Eunice Dumbuya, a young activist in Freetown, Sierra Leone, still remembers being called promiscuous after getting a contraceptive implant a few years ago. […]

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  • UN Rights Office Aides Describe Abuses, Including Sexual Violence, in New Sudan Report

    UN Rights Office Aides Describe Abuses, Including Sexual Violence, in New Sudan Report

    September 23, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    East Africa, Editor’s Picks, Social Justice

    UN Human Rights’ representatives have outlined a new Sudan report showing the systematic violations and abuses – often ethnically motivated – including summary executions, […]

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  • Guinea’s Diene Keita is the new UNFPA Executive Director

    Guinea’s Diene Keita is the new UNFPA Executive Director

    September 15, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Spotlight Series, Women in Power

    Diene Keita has been appointed as the new Executive Director of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) by the UN Secretary-General António Guterres […]

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  • From vulnerability to leadership: Driving change in communities in Malawi

    From vulnerability to leadership: Driving change in communities in Malawi

    September 11, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Editor’s Picks, Education, Advocacy & Careers

    In a modest trading centre located near the bustling city of Blantyre in southern Malawi, an extraordinary change has occurred.  Chikondi* (not her […]

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  • Women: Half the World, but Only a Quarter of the News

    Women: Half the World, but Only a Quarter of the News

    September 11, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Gender Equality

    Women make up half of humanity, yet they account for only a quarter of the news, warns a new report from the Global […]

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  •  “Women are a massive untapped resource when it comes to Intra-African Trade” Kanayo Awani,  EVP of  Afreximbank says

     “Women are a massive untapped resource when it comes to Intra-African Trade” Kanayo Awani,  EVP of Afreximbank says

    September 5, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Business & Economy, Women in Business

    The Executive Vice President of Intra-African Trade and Export Development at the African Export–Import Bank (Afreximbank), Mrs. Kanayo Awani, states that women are […]

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  • More than 100 children between the ages of 10 and 14 give birth  in South Africa’s Eastern Cape

    More than 100 children between the ages of 10 and 14 give birth in South Africa’s Eastern Cape

    September 4, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Women’s Health

    Childline South Africa has expressed concern over the high rates of minors falling pregnant in the country. The Eastern Cape government revealed that […]

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  • 60% of Crimes Against South Africa’s Women Committed by Spouses

    60% of Crimes Against South Africa’s Women Committed by Spouses

    September 4, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Social Justice

    Statistics South Africa’s victim crime report has revealed that 60% of crimes against women in the country are committed by spouses, friends, acquaintances and other […]

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  • “Gender Equality needs the involvement and participation of citizens ,” Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

    “Gender Equality needs the involvement and participation of citizens ,” Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

    September 2, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Gender Equality

    UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka expresses disappointment that gender equality remains unachieved, despite the significant efforts of her organization. “We do know […]

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  • Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim talks on transitioning from science to politics

    Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim talks on transitioning from science to politics

    August 29, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Education, Advocacy & Careers, Others, Women in Power

    Mauritius’s First Female President Dr. Ameenah Gurib-Fakim has noted that her risk-taking nature was her motivation to become the first female president of […]

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