Women entrepreneurs are emerging as key drivers of Africa’s economic integration under the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). According to the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), women account for about 70% of informal cross-border traders on the continent, while the World Bank estimates that full implementation of the AfCFTA could increase Africa’s […]
In El Obeid, women and girls now face an impossible choice over something as basic as a bucket of water: risk a drone strike by collecting it in daylight, or risk rape by waiting until dark. Gender equality agency UN Women sounded the alarm this week over what it called a “dual terror” gripping the North Kordofan […]
At least one million women and girls have lost access to critical humanitarian support since January 2025 as unprecedented aid cuts push women’s organizations in crisis zones to the brink of collapse, the UN’s gender equality agency, UN Women, said on Friday July, 10, 2026. The warning comes in a new report, Beyond the Breaking Point, which […]
As artificial intelligence reshapes how people work, communicate and access information, UN Women warned on Monday, June 22, 2026 that the technology is reproducing old gender stereotypes, which amplify online abuse and leave women out of the decisions that will define the digital future. The warning comes as most recent studies show that as generative AI […]
The ECOWAS Commission, in collaboration with Women in Law and Development (WILDAF), organized a five-day training workshop in Banjul, Republic of The Gambia, from 18 to 22 May 2026. The overall objective of the workshop is to strengthen the capacities of women traders and entrepreneurs in the agribusiness sector to enable them to better understand, […]
Women and girls in Lebanon are paying an increasingly devastating price as violence and displacement continue despite a ceasefire, the UN reproductive health agency (UNFPA) warned on Tuesday. June 2, 2026. Heightened tensions in Beirut and intensified attacks in southern Lebanon have pushed families into fear and uncertainty, forcing many to make impossible choices in […]
Nearly 10,000 cases of conflict-related sexual violence were recorded worldwide last year – more than double the previous year’s figure – as rape, sexual slavery and abduction were deployed as weapons of war across Africa, the Middle East, Europe and the Caribbean. Releasing the UN’s annual report on Friday, Special Representative Pramila Patten said the numbers reflected […]
Many countries across Africa have embraced universal basic education policies in recent decades. But recent data has revealed that more than 100 million children and adolescents remain out of school, out of a total potential population of 469 million. The latest statistics suggest that after some years of progress, the situation is deteriorating. Education and […]
Des deepfakes pornographiques aux campagnes de harcèlement sur les réseaux sociaux, l’intelligence artificielle ouvre un nouveau front dans les violences faites aux femmes. Pour l’ONU, cette misogynie en ligne menace les droits durablement acquis des femmes dans la vie publique, tandis que les violences domestiques continuent de tuer chaque jour à huis clos. La haine […]
Thirteen-year-old Mona still remembers the moment the second airstrike hit. “We were sitting on the sixth floor when they struck the seventh – my uncle’s apartment,” she said. “My uncle’s wife was screaming, ‘My children! My children are gone!’ As I rushed to help her, they fired the second shell. That’s when my mother and […]
