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Women in displacement camps in Nigeria resort to transactional sex for survival
June 2016 – New assessments of the protection risks faced by the affected people living in Nigeria’s restive north-eastern Borno state have concluded that women face a high risk of abuse in...
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Breaking the glass ceiling: Women agricultural scientists
19 Feb 2014They are selected because they are—or could be—as good as agricultural scientists anywhere. They...
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Mothers’ health is improving across Africa
11 Feb 2013In recent years, the shrill cries of a newborn baby have been bringing more shouts of joy than of...
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‘Take away the guns,’ women tell UN envoy
1 Feb 2013Zainab Bangura, UN special representative on sexual violence in conflict, speaking after her...
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Helping the ‘collateral victims’ of AIDS
2 Oct 2012Here in Rakai, where Uganda’s first AIDS case was reported in the early 1980s, it is common to see...
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Women, peace and security, 10 years on
17 Jan 2012In October 2010 more than 600 Congolese women and girls were reportedly raped along the border...
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NEPAD on the ground
15 Dec 2011Concrete action in five key areas
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Microfinance: What role in Africa's development?
15 Aug 2011Time to reassess the limits and strengths of small-scale lending
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North African women on the barricades
15 Aug 2011Activists press for freedom, dignity and rights
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African women’s long walk to equality
15 Aug 2010Women in Madagascar benefit from a micro-finance programme: African women’s movements are focusing...
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To save the lives of mothers, infants
15 Jan 2010In an otherwise grim outlook for Africa’s hopes of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs...
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