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Liberia: Thousand of Girls Targeted in Plan…

17.10.2022 Plan International: Emmanuel Wise Jipoh &Winston W. Parley

Plan International Liberia has launched a campaign to ensure thousands of Liberian girls can learn, lead, decide and thrive for a better career, or future endeavors. The "Girls Get Equal" campaign was launched Friday, 14 October 2022 at Plan…

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Angola: Organização de Mulheres Angolanas

17.10.2022 Paolo Jorge

This refers to the work of OMA (Organização de Mulheres Angolanas), the Organization of Angolan Women. While the material on this MPLA grouping is hard to come by in English, Paolo Jorge, former director of MLAs Department of Information and…

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South Sudan a hellish existence for women…

17.10.2022 UN report: Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin

© UNICEF/Mackenzie Knowles-Coursin … A quarter of reported cases of conflict-related sexual violence in South Sudan are against children. 21 March 2022 Human Rights … Widespread sexual violence against women and girls in conflict is being fueled by…

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About a million people hit by Floods in…

17.10.2022 Sudan Tribune

At least 909,000 people have been affected by persistent floods in various parts of South Sudan, recent estimates from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) show. “These floods have killed livestock and…

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Daughters of Somalia, a continuous pledge to…

17.10.2022 UNFPA: Tobin Jones

In Somalia, over 90 percent or more of girls and women, have been subjected to female genital mutilation, or FGM. Despite the practice having devastating health ramifications for women and girls - including pain, bleeding, permanent disability, and…

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Somalia: Women and Children are bearing the…

17.10.2022 World Food Program: Kirsty McFadden

Thirst and hunger are driving people to make perilous journeys on foot to reach safety … 1 August 2022, Kirsty McFadden Droughts Food Security Somalia … Drought forced Mido and her family to make the challenging journey to Dolow. The family arrived…

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