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Meet Five African Women Using Their PhDs to Change Africa’s Future

Five African women are leading research and community-focused initiatives aimed at solving some of Africa’s biggest challenges, from health systems to climate change and governance. Armed with PhDs ...
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The Nubian women reviving traditional agriculture in Nairobi's largest slum

A group of Nubian women in Kenya’s largest informal settlement is using hydroponics and circular gardening to revive ...
Reuters

Kenya's slum women risk health to avoid violence: group

NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya's poorest women risk the deadly diseases related to poor sanitation because "endemic" sexual violence in the capital's sprawling slums keeps them away from its communal ...
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Impact investors help women creatives from slums to track profits

Across Africa, women account for the majority of the creative labor force; however, their impact in this sector is hardly ...
Human Rights Watch

Progress on Addressing Violence against Women in Africa

On May 2, the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights’ (ACHPR) is scheduled to meet for its first public session since the African Union adopted the Convention on Ending Violence Against Women ...
Reuters

In South Africa's slums, mob justice rules

KHAYELITSHA, South Africa (Reuters) - Beaten and set alight, Ncedile Gigi's unrecognisable remains have not been buried since March, when a mob fed up with poor policing took the law into their own ...