By Yacine Djibo, Executive Director, Speak Up Africa This year’s World Health Day theme “My Health, My Right” comes at a time when the world is grappling with how to […]
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By Devi Palanivelu For over a year, a group of United Nations peacekeepers from Ghana led by Captain Esinam Baah regularly patrolled the “blue line” or the demarcation line between Lebanon and Israel,
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By Aimable Twahirwa Adeline Umukunzi, a 28-year-old woman mushroom farmer in Musanze, a district located about 100 km north of the capital Kigali, said women have often been the unseen faces
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The recent Women’s Climate Assembly held in the Niger Delta from 17-20 October 2022 was the largest women’s climate gathering in Africa bringing together well over 100 women activists from
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With the conclusion of the 77th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), one of the constant issues on the agenda was Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 5, gender equality. Gender inequality is
Visa has today announced a grant towards the African Women Impact Fund (AWIF), a collaboration between Standard Bank and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA). The grant will
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The role that women should play in shaping Africa’s present and future was a key theme from speakers of the Women Heads of State Initiative, co-convened by Africa.com and Coca-Cola
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Women in Africa are primed to benefit from the increasing digitalisation of the global work culture, and should ensure that they embrace a habit of life-long learning and upskilling to
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Over the last 30 days President Samia Suluhu Hassan has become the most important woman in the African energy industry. She has taken some of the most courageous steps in
“We need to build back better.” This has been the rallying call on the COVID-19 response by UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres to leaders and communities around the world. It has been echoed
