When men tackle mother and child health: lessons from Malawi

In rural Malawi traditional leaders have played an important role in persuading men to get involved in women’s health. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko
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Talk of gender mainstreaming – the assessing of all policies, programmes, laws and interventions on the basis of their impact on both men and...

Washington Hearing: Committee on Foreign Affairs

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Hargeisa, 21 June 2009 - Subcommittee on Africa and Global Health Donald M. Payne (D-NJ), Chairman Somalia: Prospects for Lasting Peace and a Unified Response to Extremism...

Who’s behind South Sudan’s return to fighting, if it isn’t Kiir or Machar?

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By Clemence Pinaud Heavy fighting in the South Sudanese capital of Juba over the past few days has led to hundreds of deaths and the...

Africa:Al Jazeera Media Network condemns delaying the release of its journalists arrested in Egypt

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Doha, 10 January 2014 – For the sixth consecutive month, Egyptian authorities continue to delay their decision to release Al Jazeera Mubasher Misr cameraman Mohamed Badr. The verdict...

USA: Court to weigh lawsuit against former Somali PM

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HARGEISA, 1 October 2009 (Somalilandpress) - The Supreme Court will consider throwing out a human rights lawsuit against a former prime minister of Somalia...

PWYP members respond to Clare Short's open letter on Ethiopia candidacy to EITI

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Somali Gunmen Attack Kenyan Border Town

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Liboi, 17 April 2010 (Somalilandpress) - Suspected members of Somalia’s Al-Shabaab militias have for the second time this month raided Kenya’s border town of...

Ethiopia – A source country for trafficked people – State Department

A woman holds the flags of the African Union and Ethiopia during celebrations to mark the Ethiopian New Year Sabir Olad/Wikimedia Commons
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Washington, 18 June 2009 ) - Ethiopia is a source country for men, women, and children trafficked primarily for the purposes of forced labor...

Africa and the new world order between the United States and China

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By Giancarlo Elia Valori The US strategy towards Africa – announced by the US Secretary of State, Antony Blinken, during his recent visit to South...

NIGERIA: 150 Muslim residents massacred

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A US-based rights group has urged Nigeria's vice-president to order an immediate criminal investigation into "a massacre of at least 150 Muslim residents" of a...