What Do West African Women Want? Peace!

Levinia Addae-Mensah, Program Director and Deputy Executive Director of the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding (WANEP), spoke with AllAfrica's Nontobeko Mlambo about how she became involved in peacebuilding work, what goes in to her role and why empowering women to be decision-makers in this sector is vital.

 

allAfrica.com's reporting on peacebuilding is supported by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

Levinia Addae-Mensah is a Program Director at WANEP.

Cameroon's conflict-ridden anglophone regions (file photo).

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