Obiageli Ezekwesili captured international attention when she announced in October last year she was running for president in Nigeria’s 2019 elections. The co-founder and leader
Category: Africa
12.02.19 / Women in the Democratic Republic of Congo are being asked for sexual favours in exchange for receiving the Ebola vaccination, according to research
On a fine afternoon in Nairobi’s Mukuru Fuata Nyayo slum, Roseline Juma is busy preparing vegetables in her makeshift grocery store for customers to buy
The co-founder of a group to raise awareness about schoolgirls kidnapped by jihadists said she aims to become Nigeria’s first woman president by mobilising first-time
A woman was recently elected as a senior chief in South Sudan – a not unheard of, but very unusual occurrence. This surely a positive
The last 12 months have been bracketed by two catastrophic, and predictable, events: the collapse of the Koshe Garbage landfill on March 11, 2017, in
