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Africa: Triple Threat - Conflict, Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19
allAfrica, 26 April 2020
The new coronavirus, officially called SARS-CoV-2, has infected more than three million people worldwide – 31,000 in Africa by 26 April – with Egypt, South Africa,… Read more »
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Africa: 'There Can Be No Empowerment Without Peace; and No Peace Without Gender Equality'
allAfrica, 1 April 2020
The women and young peacebuilders' agenda cannot be siloed from the gender equality agenda. Read more »
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Africa: How to Ensure That Coronavirus Doesn't Stop Peace Efforts in Africa
The Conversation Africa, 26 April 2020
COVID-19 is likely to disrupt ongoing peace processes, worsen existing conflicts and generate new conflicts. But it may also offer opportunities for ceasefires and peace… Read more »
How Africa is Navigating Conflict, GBV and Covid-19
Africa is facing a triple threat from conflict, gender-based violence and Covid-19. For women, the outbreak is deadly in multiple ways, and leading women are calling for restructuring society in ways that are fundamentally fairer.
Family members who have fled conflict sit inside their tent at the Pissila camp for displaced people in Burkina Faso (file photo).
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UN Women, 25 April 2020
On 20 April 2020, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Executive Director of UN Women, and Gabriela Ramos, OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20, convened and chaired the Women… Read more »
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UN, 22 April 2020
Members Stress Critical Need to Maintain Unhindered Humanitarian, Other Support for Those Countries Menaced by Virus Read more »
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South Africa: Women and Children Need More Protection During Lockdown
Daily Maverick, 21 April 2020
Countries across the globe have imposed lockdowns to mitigate the spread of Covid-19. But with this move to isolate, organisations fear that women and children will be increasingly… Read more »
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Burkina Faso: How Crisis Is Changing Society - and How to Fix It
The New Humanitarian, 20 April 2020
'The mentality of society is changing.' Read more »
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Zimbabwe: Lockdown Extension Exposes Chipinge Women to More GBV
263Chat, 20 April 2020
The announcement by President Emmerson Mnangagwa on the extension of the national lockdown by a further 14 days came has brought with it a number of challenges for women. Read more »
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Africa: COVID-19, Conflict Threaten Millions Across West, Central Africa
VOA, 18 April 2020
The U.N. refugee agency warns millions of people across 21 countries in West and Central Africa are facing a potential humanitarian catastrophe because of armed conflict and the… Read more »
InFocus
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The United Nations secretary-general has warned that the increase in social and economic pressures brought on by the coronavirus pandemic has led to a global increase in violence ... Read more »
