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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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Somalia Population composed of young people17.10.2022 UNCF New York
Somalia's population comprises of a significant youth and adolescent population with under half (45.6%) of the population being less than 15 years and around three-quarters (75%) of the population being less than 30 years old … Somalia’s gross…
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Nigeria: Eradicate Polio in Nigeria17.10.2022 Ifeanyi Nsofor
… Six-month-old Ajeda received her first dose of the polio vaccine at a camp for displaced persons outside Maiduguri city. In 2015, Nigeria became the first polio-endemic country to use inactivated polio vaccine in routine systems. Lagos —…
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Africa Prepares For World Food Day 2022…17.10.2022 Kenya Daily News
World Food Day will be celebrated on October 16, 2022, with the theme "Leave No One Behind". In Kenya, potato farmers are learning how to produce certified tissue culture planting material. Tissue culture is the cultivation of plant tissues or…
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Congo-Kinshasa: Thousands of Congolese…17.10.2022 Voice of America: Lisa Schlein
Geneva — The U.N. refugee agency says nearly 6,000 Congolese refugees have been helped to return home since December 2021, after years of exile in Zambia. The voluntary repatriation of Congolese refugees was based on a tripartite agreement signed in…
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