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Somalia: Building Women's Leadership
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:59:32 GMT
The moderator raps her pen on the table to hush the boisterous assembly of Somali women gathered in Bagamoyo, on the Indian Ocean coast of Tanzania. Their voices drop for a moment before the sound level rises again to a heated crescendo.
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Ghana: 'Our Voices Have Been Heard'
Sat, 06 Sep 2008 09:56:05 GMT
As the Third High Level Forum on Aid Effectiveness draws to a close in the Ghanaian capital, gender activists are reflecting on the way ahead.
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Ghana: Camfed Opens Girls Exposure Camp in Tamale
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 15:18:08 GMT
The Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Mustapha Ali Iddris has described girl child education as a misunderstood and controversial development concept.
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Rwanda: Sixty Rwandan Women Get Goldman Sachs Scholarships
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:58:10 GMT
At least 60 Rwandan women have qualified for Goldman Sachs's scholarships to undertake an entrepreneurial certificate programme that was launched at hotel Novotel on Tuesday.
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Nigeria: NGO Decries Land Marginalisation
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 12:00:22 GMT
A Coalition of women NGOs in Jigawa state under the aegis of Jigawa Women Network for Access to Justice (JUNNAJ), have condemned the outright denial of land to women by the society.
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Africa: Lost in a Haystack - Gender Equality in Aid Effectiveness
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:36:44 GMT
Early in September 2008 the world will hold another one of its mega gatherings in Accra Ghana - the third high level forum on aid effectiveness. World leaders will convene to append their priceless signatures to a document now popularly called the triple A, which stands for the Accra Agenda for Action. The triple A, an outcome document ostensibly from the three days of intense discussions and lobbying is actually a prepackaged condensation from evaluations of the implementation of the Paris declaration and consultations about them conducted between 2006 and 2008 in all the regions of the world. It includes promises to expand and include more of the actors/agents of development such as the civil society organisations (CSOs) who were sidelined in the earlier rendition of the Paris declaration. It charts the broad actions that will no doubt occupy many development actors between now and December 2011 when the fourth high level forum on aid effectiveness takes place.
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Uganda: 89 Per Cent of Bukwo Women Deliver At Home - Health Official
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 10:57:08 GMT
Eighty nine per cent of expectant mothers in Bukwo District deliver at home with the assistance of traditional birth attendants, a health sector report presented by the District Health Officer, Dr Michael Mwanga has revealed.
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Nigeria: Obe Blames Politicians' Failure on Women
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:55:03 GMT
A Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), Chief P.C. Ajayi Obe, has said women in the country should share the larger portion of the blame arising from failure of politicians in the country.
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Africa: Time for Female Soldiers to Do More Than Secretarial Work
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:26:28 GMT
The low level of participation of women in African militaries was in the limelight in August, which is celebrated in several parts of the continent as the month of heroines of the anti-colonial struggle.
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Kenya: Church Can Ill-Afford to Lose the Battle
Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:45:18 GMT
At the centre of the controversial debate that seeks to legalise abortion is a tricky connivance with terms. In the connivance, abortion passes for reproductive health.
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