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Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Executive Director, to bear African Youths' message to the Nairobi Summit on ICPD 25.
UNFPA Executive Director visits Senegal and The Gambia
Highlights of Dr. Natalia Kanem, UNFPA Executive Director's Visit to Niger.
UNFPA’s Executive Director marks imprint at AU Summit in Niamey, Niger!
Deputy Executive Director UNFPA Mr. Dereje Wordofa, visit in Dakar
UNFPA advocates for enhanced efforts to eliminate Female Genital Mutilation and Child Marriage by 2030
Maiguizo Kané Mahamane Mansour, Sultan de Tessaoua, champion de la santé maternelle.
Niger: Focus on Integrated Health Centres
Testimony by Ms Bilal Madina Thiam, midwife at the Mother and Child Centre in Agadez at the El Kolta Health Centre
State of World Population 2019

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13 August 2019

25 Hours of DAKAR: Declaration of adolescents and young people of west and central Africa

To amplify the voice of African youth on their way to the Nairobi Summit on CIPD25, members of the African Youth and Adolescents Network on Population and Development of West and Central (AfriYAN), benefiting from the tireless support of the Regional Office of the United Nations Population Fund, have largely consulted amongst

9 August 2019

The Story of Kadiatu

The Story of Kadiatu Oh Kadiatu, my friend, She was the brightest at our level and she was as innocent as the heaven's but that did not stop Papa Abu at age 57 to ask for her hand in marriage as she turned 11! Her parents being naive about this rage tolerated this marriage and this destroyed the hopes and dreams of Kadiatu to

29 July 2019

Promoting civil registration and vital statistics to leave no one behind in Africa

An inception meeting on sharing technical standards and implementation strategies of a project on Civil Registration and Vital Statistics (CRVS) was held in Dakar, Senegal from 24 to 26 July 2019. The project is expected to overcome the difficulty in providing reliable and quality demographic data and information. Very few