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(ERGO) – Sahra Mohamed Yusuf, a mom of 5, can now earn 300,000 ($10) on a very good day promoting recent greens as a part of a ladies's group initiative in Somalia's Lower Juba area that has lifted her out of poverty. "I can now afford three meals, I buy medicine, I pay school fees, we can get almost everything. I used to stumble and we depended on our relatives," mentioned Sahra. Before gathering and promoting firewood, she earned $2, barely sufficient to fulfill her household's wants. Now she is among the many 150…

OP-ED: Why girls's participation within the political course of issues in Somalia Somalia has a wealthy historical past of courageous girls who defied all odds to contribute to the state-building course of of their homeland, however confronted a collection of limitations. Here I confer with the legacy of Hawo Tako, an anti-colonialist member of the Somali Youth…

In Senegal, the first feminist festival Jotaay Ji, organized by the Jama collective, will be held until August 21 at the Place du Souvenir in Dakar, at the Henriette-Bathily Women's Museum. On the program, consent, sexual health, gynecological and marital…

On August 10, the Minister of Public Health, Manaouda Malachie, banned the sale of skin whitening products marketed by five companies, including opposition MP Nourane Fotsing. Since then, the government member states in an interview with the TV channel Naja TV…

JEDDAH – British-Somali skilled boxer Ramla Ali has stated that Saudi Arabia is turning into a really progressive nation, throwing extra ladies into sports activities. Ali spoke to the Saudi Gazette on the sidelines of the pre-fight press convention forward of the Rage On The Red Sea occasion. Ali stated she noticed Saudi feminine athletes competing on the Olympics in varied occasions. "I think there are so many great things and so many great athletes coming out of this country," she famous. The skilled boxer…

South Africans celebrated Women's Day on Tuesday, August 9. A holiday, specific to South Africa, commemorating the march of 20,000 women in Pretoria in 1956 who refused to carry "dompas", an identity document imposed on blacks by the apartheid regime. The main…

Almost five hundred days after his final acquittal by the International Criminal Court, President Laurent Gbagbo is pardoned by his successor Alassane Ouattara. The announcement…

The Kenyan election marketing campaign was "marked by violence against women", warn FIDH (The International Federation for Human Rights) and the Kenya Human Rights Commission (KHRC), three days after the August 9 presidential election. The two NGOs are involved…

In Burkina Faso, the government is concerned about the increasingly frequent presence of women participating in the actions of armed terrorist groups. The transitional government calls on all these women to lay down their arms and participate in the process of…

Should women's participation in politics be encouraged to strengthen democracy on the continent? This is one of the hypotheses that was discussed on Thursday during the second day of the summit for constitutionalism and the consolidation of democracy in Africa.…