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The number of retirees at risk of poverty is growing, making them three times more likely to experience poverty than any other age group.
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The books aim to write women back into history for children to see that women are able to take up powerful positions in society.
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Makeba, who would have turned 90 on 4 March 2022, was a hugely influential artist and an icon of African liberation and identity.
Francisca Ordega of Nigeria’s legendary women’s football team.
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Twelve teams remain after the qualifying rounds of the 2022 Women’s Africa Cup of Nations - with Nigeria no longer automatic favourites as the competition diversifies.
A man pairs Kenyan maize flour staple ugali with a traditional vegetable known as murenda (jute mallow).
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Facing a growing bias against indigenous crops, Kenyan researchers set out to showcase the value in local options - and set a global standard.
Head porters from the northern part of Ghana are victims of institutional weakness.
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Unresolved historical injustices, deepened in new forms, undermined compliance with Ghana’s COVID lockdown.
Juliet Namanda teaching children at her home in Kampala, Uganda, due to school closures.
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Emerging evidence shows that, for young people, the effects of COVID on education have already been devastating.
Women have a valuable role to play across scientific disciplines - but can’t do this without proper support.
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Young academies, which generally represent early career scientists, fared far better than their senior counterparts - a promising sign for the future.
A country as poor as Eswatini cannot afford to compromise the education of its children.
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There’s an intricate interchange of culture, tradition and societal narratives in the way the vulnerable boys and girls experience school.
Academic and author Pumla Dineo Gqola in 2010.
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Female Fear Factory by Pumla Dineo Gqola sees gender violence as a sophisticated ecosystem kept alive by socially manufactured fear.
People in the world’s poorest countries have not benefited equally from the recent advancements made in cancer.
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People in the world’s poorest regions have not benefited equally from the recent advancements made in cancer screening, prevention and treatment.
Supporters of incumbent president Adama Barrow’s National Peoples Party (NPP) during a campaign rally in Banjul in November 2021.
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Temporary measures such as legislative gender quotas can increase women’s access to political participation.
People in poorer urban areas aren’t receiving the necessary healthcare.
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Urban poverty is having an adverse impact on the health of mothers and children.
Dolly Rathebe (centre) in detail of the album cover for Dolly Rathebe & Elite Swingsters.
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Her celebration of black life, black beauty and black humanity through her films and music was subversive.
Lindiwe Mabuza (right) with President Cyril Ramaphosa in 2018.
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For her, art was a weapon in the struggle and a tool for education. She used every opportunity to build movements and to archive experiences in writing.
To fight economic inequality, female dependency on relationships and gender-based violence, female education is critical.
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Adolescent girls and young women aged 15 to 24 accounted for 25% of new infections, while making up only 10% of the population.
A shop selling skin lightening creams in Nairobi.
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Skin lighteners are being used more than ever before, especially in urban areas and among men.
People wear pictures of victims of gender violence at a protest in Argentina in 2017.
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Private and public violence rely on each other as forces that work together to ensure women and girls ‘stay in their place’ — the one that patriarchal social structures have prescribed.
An activist holds a placard reading “my outfit is not an invitation” during a demonstration against the television channel Nouvelle Chaine Ivorienne following a shocking programme on rape.
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The practice of blaming and stigmatising rape survivors has devastating consequences. It silences them and protects rapists. It discourages survivors from accessing healthcare and pursuing justice.
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The idea of ‘disclaimer labels’ on altered images might curb women’s and girls’ struggle with body image is a false one - in fact, they may even make it worse.