February 15, 2022
Africa: We are the Future; Investors Should Be Scrambling to Partner With Us – Med-Tech Entrepreneur Vivian Nwakah
Losing a friend because of a fake malaria drug and inadequate healthcare services pushed Vivian Nwakah to take on the pharmaceutical industry in Nigeria. In 2017 she founded the… Read more »
December 06, 2021
Congo-Kinshasa: "Today, We Are At the Door of Economic Liberation" - Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA)
The DRC-Africa Business Forum 2021, which was held on November 24 and 25 in Kinshasa, has come to a close. The process of manufacturing a regional electric battery industry from… Read more »
November 28, 2021
Africa: Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence Launched in Nigeria
Violence against women and girls is among the most widespread, and devastating human rights violations in the world, but much it is often unreported due to impunity, shame and… Read more »
November 23, 2021
Africa: Sexism, Violence Rife for Women in African Parliaments, Says Study
Sexism, harassment and violence against women permeate parliaments across Africa, according to a new study published Tuesday. Read more »
November 18, 2021
South Sudan: Healing Trauma and Peacebuilding Go Hand-in-Hand for South Sudan
Welcome to AllAfrica's Silence The Guns series where we focus on peacebuilding on the continent. This is Juanita Williams and today we take closer look at what the road to… Read more »
South Sudan: South Sudan Still Struggling Towards Peace
In January 2011 the people of South Sudan voted in a referendum to secede from Sudan, putting behind them two civil wars which had consumed 39 of the 55 years of Sudanese… Read more »
Africa: Let's Use the Covid-19 Wakeup Call to Help Women Rise From the Nightmare of Cervical Cancer
Four African First Ladies and Tedros of WHO issue urgent appeal for health equity Read more »
November 17, 2021
Nigeria: 'It's Not Enough to Save Lives, We Must Do It Sustainably' - Temie Giwa-Tubosun | Transcript
AllAfrica's Juanita Williams talked with Nigerian entrepreneur Temie Giwa-Tubosun, who not only built her healthcare, technology and logistics company Lifebank from the ground up… Read more »
November 16, 2021
Nigeria: The Vision That Drives Lifebank Founder Temie Giwa-Tubosun
"I don't sit here and say, back me because I'm a woman, I say back me because I'm doing something that is great, back me because we're going to be great. We're going to prove once… Read more »
November 12, 2021
Uganda: Young, African Climate Activists Like Vanessa Nakate Need Our Support #AfricaClimateCrisis
When we speak about young African voices fighting climate change, Vanessa Nakate comes to mind. Read more »
November 09, 2021
Africa: Peacebuilding Needs More Women, Youth - What's Holding Them Back?
AllAfrica's Silence The Guns series focuses on peacebuilding on the continent. Today we take a closer look at the role of women and youth in peacebuilding in Africa. There's no… Read more »
October 06, 2021
Central African Republic: Looking Ahead, Banking On Human Capital - The Keys To Development In The Central African Republic
Géraldine Wonzangba is a student like any other all over the world: a chemistry major at the University of Bangui, she is at that age where one can dream about any and… Read more »
October 04, 2021
Africa: Helping Girls Attain Their Educational Dreams without Discrimination
Nineteen-year-old Justina (not her real name) from the southwestern region of Nigeria had just been admitted to the Federal University of Technology in Minna, Nigeria, when she… Read more »
September 24, 2021
Nigeria: Nigerian States Should Protect Girls by Ending Child Marriage
Over 10 million children are out of school in Nigeria and the global pandemic has only made it harder for young people to stay in school. There have been dire consequences… Read more »
September 01, 2021
Africa: Sahel's Conflict Crisis – Women Hold Key to Building Peace
It is now a decade since the Sahel crisis unfolded. Yet, the region has picked up the hard lessons and remains of interest globally. Read more »
July 29, 2021
Kenya: Kenya Needs an Inclusive Social Protection Policy
Doris is a 75-year-old woman from Kayaba informal settlement in Nairobi. As with most families in the settlement, her house is a single dilapidated room with mud walls, a… Read more »
July 14, 2021
Africa: As a Pan-Africanist Feminist, Here's Why I Want to See Jacob Zuma Held Accountable
I am passionate about South Africa despite its painful history: the horrors of Dutch colonization, the segregation that predated apartheid and the deep wound of the apartheid era… Read more »
May 07, 2021
Africa: Mothers Need Not Give Birth Alone
It is difficult to think of any event that is more profoundly life-altering than childbirth - a process steeped in wonder and pain and, too often, fear. But giving birth does not… Read more »
Africa: Reflecting on the Needs of Africa's Working Mothers
Balancing work and family obligations has long been a reality for women. In the past year however, the COVID-19 pandemic has upset this delicate juggling act, reminding us just how… Read more »
April 19, 2021
Africa: When Will Women Have Equal Access to Land?
In Kenya, residents of a women-only village established in 1990 were finally granted ownership of their tract of land this month. In Tanzania, the government affirmed its… Read more »
April 07, 2021
Uganda: Let's Save Ugandan Lives with Abortion Law Clarity
Until I witnessed a death from complications of an unsafe abortion, I never felt comfortable talking about abortion services. Joan (not her real name) was an intelligent and… Read more »
March 30, 2021
Africa: Salute to The Sahel's Resilient Women
While the rich history of Women’s Day goes back to 1909 with civic action by working women in the streets of New York and was highlighted in 1911 across several European… Read more »
March 19, 2021
Africa: Change For Africa's Women - So, Where Do We Start?
The years 2010-2020 marked the African Women’s Decade. As we take stock of the last ten-plus years, it is clear is that we have not kept the promises that were made to the… Read more »
March 09, 2021
Africa: Shocking Levels of Violence Against Women - UN Report
Shocking levels of violence inflicted by men upon women are reported in a United Nations study published today. The analysis shows that in Sub-Saharan Africa, one in every three… Read more »
March 08, 2021
Africa: African Nation Still Leads the World With Woman MPs
Rwanda still leads the world with the number of women in a lower chamber of parliament, says the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU). Sixty-one percent of members of the country's… Read more »