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A report coinciding with International Women’s Day on Monday finds the number of women parliamentarians globally is increasing, but so slightly that it barely dents the global male-dominated system.The Inter-Parliamentary Union reports more than one qu…
Read MoreIn recent weeks, as Africa prepared to mark the milestone of one year since the coronavirus reached its shores, millions of doses of long-awaited vaccine finally began to arrive across the continent. Most were provided by the global COVAX Facility, whi…
Read MoreFor more than 100 years, International Women’s Day has been celebrated by honoring the achievements of women globally.But this year, because of lost jobs and increased burdens of care at home, women have fared worse economically than men.According to d…
Read MoreGENEVA – The COVID-19 pandemic is worsening gender inequality in Africa and causing millions of women great physical, mental and economic distress, the World Health Organization says. Although fewer women in Africa are contracting COVID-19, the pande…
Read MoreA key U.S. partner in the fight against terrorism is growing increasingly uneasy about the Biden administration’s new guidance on the use of drones and airstrikes, concerned that the changes are giving an already emboldened al-Qaida affiliate more room…
Read MoreThe east-central African nation of Rwanda began its COVID-19 vaccination program Friday, using the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine, making it the first African nation to administer the drug. The nation received 102,960 doses of Pfizer-BioNTech and 240,000 dose…
Read MoreA suicide car bomb killed at least 20 and injured 30 late Friday in the Somali capital of Mogadishu.The explosion happened at Luul Yemeni restaurant in the city’s port area and sent smoke into the sky, according to Reuters, citing state media.“So far w…
Read MoreThe World Health Organization says it is using every measure it has to curb the spread of parallel Ebola outbreaks in Guinea and the Democratic Republic of Congo. One of the biggest lessons learned from the 2014-2016 Ebola epidemic in West Africa — the…
Read MoreSouth African police have seized hundreds of fake COVID-19 vaccines and arrested four suspects in connection with the haul, the Interpol global police co-ordination agency said.This comes after Interpol, which is headquartered in France, issued a globa…
Read MoreWomen’s and human rights activists in South Sudan say parties to the 2018 peace deal are violating a provision that calls for 35% of government positions at all levels to be allocated to women.President Salva Kiir’s decree reconstituting Western Equat…
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