Over 400 Kasangati Women trained in Financial Literacy to Boost Economic Empowerment

December 12, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Financial Empowerment, Health & Wellness

More than 400 women from Kasangati and surrounding areas have received hands-on financial literacy training aimed at boosting economic empowerment, improving livelihoods, and fostering social harmony. The initiative was spearheaded by the Rotary Club of Bulindo and Rotary Club of Kitukutwe, in partnership with Old Mutual Uganda and Centenary Bank, and held at Kasangati Health…

GBV shutdown planned ahead of G20 summit in Johannesburg

November 10, 2025

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Mawuko Agyemang-Fiaxe

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Social Justice

South Africans are being urged to join a national shutdown on 21 November to protest against gender-based violence and femicide. The shutdown is led by the activist group Women for Change, and is planned just one day before world leaders gather in Johannesburg for the G20 Leaders Summit. As part of the protest, women are…

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. She knew the risks of an unplanned pregnancy in her conservative country, so she made a choice. “I had to go with my aunt to the hospital for contraceptives because my mom…

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, targeting of health workers, abductions, and rife and targeted sexual violence against women and girls in the East African country. Jeremy Laurence, spokesperson for the Human Rights Office, said at a UN…

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 crisis caused by conflict (file photo). More than one million pregnant women in the country now lack access to basic services such as antenatal care, safe delivery, and postpartum care, according to the…

Over 400 Kasangati Women trained in Financial Literacy to Boost Economic Empowerment

How Stigma Undermines Contraceptive Use Among Women in Sierra Leone

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