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  • Zimbabwe Leads the Region With 51% Female UN Peacekeepers

    Zimbabwe Leads the Region With 51% Female UN Peacekeepers

    October 13, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Gender Equality

    Zimbabwe has set a new regional benchmark for gender equality in peacekeeping with women now making up 51 percent of the country’s personnel

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  • “Girls’ Rights Cannot Wait” – West and Central Africa’s Girls Demand Action from Leaders

    “Girls’ Rights Cannot Wait” – West and Central Africa’s Girls Demand Action from Leaders

    October 13, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Central Africa, Education, Advocacy & Careers, West Africa

    To mark the International Day of the Girl, over 100 girls from West and Central Africa came together in Dakar for the West

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  • Ghana launches HPV vaccine to protect over 2 million girls and combat cervical cancer

    Ghana launches HPV vaccine to protect over 2 million girls and combat cervical cancer

    October 9, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Education, Advocacy & Careers, Women’s Health

    Ghana’s first nationwide human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination campaign has been launched. This was done by the Ghana Health Services, in partnership with Gavi,

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  • Sewit Ahderom is Next President and CEO of Mastercard Foundation

    Sewit Ahderom is Next President and CEO of Mastercard Foundation

    October 3, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    STEM, Women in Business

    The Mastercard Foundation has found its next leader. After a lengthy global search, the organisation has announced that Sewit Ahderom, who has deep roots in

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  • Nigeria: Ending FGM – Schools As Safe Campaign Platforms

    Nigeria: Ending FGM – Schools As Safe Campaign Platforms

    October 1, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Health & Wellness, Women’s Health

    Oyo State Ministry of Information and Orientation, in partnership with UNICEF, is leading a push to end Female Genital Mutilation in Nigeria by

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  • How water threatens girl-child education in Kano-Nigeria

    How water threatens girl-child education in Kano-Nigeria

    October 1, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Editor’s Picks, Education Access

    For decades, residents of Dutsen Bakoshi village in Shanono Local Government Area of Kano State have been battling a long-standing water crisis that

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  • No Country Can Reach Its Full Potential If Women Are Left Behind – Nandi-Ndaitwah

    No Country Can Reach Its Full Potential If Women Are Left Behind – Nandi-Ndaitwah

    September 29, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Education, Advocacy & Careers

    President Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah says no country can reach its full potential if women are not given an opportunity to lead. She made this

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  • Unsafe abortions contribute to 13% of preventable deaths

    Unsafe abortions contribute to 13% of preventable deaths

    September 29, 2025

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    Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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    Education, Advocacy & Careers, Health & Wellness

    As the world marks International Safe Abortion Day, an alarm has been raised over the staggering prevalence of unsafe abortions worldwide, urging decisive

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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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