interview By Nontobeko Mlambo Ahead of International Youth Day, AllAfrica’s Nontobeko Mlambo spoke to Aya Chebbi to and shed light on the state of youth leadership and activism in Africa. Chebbi is the founder of the Nala Feminist Collective and was the first-ever African Union Youth Envoy between 2018 to 2021. Please tell us who […]
Participants at a national dialogue on creating awareness and interest for the 2023 District Level Elections have called for removal of barriers that prevent women from occupying leadership roles. Some of the barriers they cited include institutional, social, cultural and religious barriers among other. The National Dialogue provided an opportunity for participations to reflect on […]
Two senior UN humanitarian officials have called for more funding and less bureaucratic impediments to support civilians affected by the war in Sudan, including roughly 14 million children. Ted Chaiban of the UN children’s agency, UNICEF, and Edem Wosornu with the UN humanitarian affairs office, OCHA, briefed journalists on their recent mission to the country […]
Persistent violence in Haiti remains a significant concern for the safety and welfare of its most vulnerable citizens, especially women and children, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said on Monday, citing reports of an “alarming spike” in kidnapping and other crimes. According to UNICEF, nearly 300 confirmed cases were reported in the first six months […]
Ms. Mohammed on Friday August 4, 2023 wrapped up a week of development-focused meetings with Government officials in the vast South American country with a stop in Belém, capital of the northern state of Pará, gateway to Brazil’s lower Amazon region. During roundtable discussions about the future of the Amazon region with representatives of civil […]
The UN launched on Friday August 4, 2023 a policy brief on transforming education, which lays out a set of proposals to create inclusive and truly learning societies, and to understand education as a global public good. The brief recognizes that education faces both a crisis of access as well as a crisis of quality […]
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Rwanda joined the rest of the continent on July 31, to mark the Africa Women’s Day that is aligned with the Maputo Protocol, which is officially known as the Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa. It is an international human rights instrument designed by […]
KIGALI, Aug 1 2023 (IPS) – When providing education to her small group of Afghan girls, who had been studying at a boarding school back home, became tenuous, Shabana Basij-Rasikh, relocated them to Rwanda. She had set up a pioneering school under the project SOLA, the Afghan word for peace, and a short form for […]
UN, Donors Should Scale-Up Support in Sudan, Neighboring Chad Nusra and Khadija share the bond of being cousins and of living in the same small town in West Darfur. Now they share a darker bond: both survivors of sexual violence in the conflict in Sudan. Human Rights Watch researchers spoke with the cousins in eastern […]
