July 2022

Fortress Conservation Is Heading for a Crisis That Can’t Come Soon Enough

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Governments “protect” wildlife from the very people who have conserved it for centuries, while allocating mining concessions in the same areas. Outside Africa, many people’s first encounter with the continent is through images of wildlife in savannahs unfolding across their TV screens – the mortal dramas of lions chasing zebra while vast herds of wildebeest […]

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MSF Aids 2022

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The 24th International AIDS Conference is in Montreal, Canada, from 29 July – 2 August 2022. The figures of the fight against HIV show we’re moving backwards: the response to the virus is losing coverage and pace. MSF teams witness increased difficulties to provide people living with HIV with the necessary prevention, diagnosis and treatment.

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Youth Share Experience on Intergenerational Trauma

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Different youths in the country on July 27 gathered in Kigali to discuss and reflect on intergenerational trauma as a result of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. The gathering convened under the banner of Healing Young Generation Intergenerational Dialogue. Organized by Ndabaga Impact, a youth-led NGO, the dialogue aimed to raise more awareness regarding

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Intensifying Awareness Creation About the Deadly Hepatitis ‘B’ Virus, a Move to Save Lives

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Hepatitis B is the most common serious liver infection in the world. It is caused by the hepatitis B virus that attacks and injures the liver. WHO estimates that 296 million people were living with chronic hepatitis B infection as at 2019, with 1.5 million new infections each year. Up to one million people across

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Facebook Unable to Detect Hate Speech Weeks Away From Tight Kenyan Election

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Despite the risk of violence around the upcoming Kenyan election, our new investigation conducted in partnership with legal non-profit Foxglove finds Facebook appallingly failed to detect hate speech ads in the two official languages of the country: Swahili and English. This follows a similar pattern we uncovered in Myanmar and Ethiopia, but for the first time also

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Facebook Approves Ads Calling for Ethnic Violence in the Lead Up to a Tense Kenyan Election

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A new investigation by Global Witness and legal non-profit Foxglove shows that Facebook failed to detect inflammatory and violent hate speech ads in the two official languages of Kenya – Swahili and English. Despite the high risk of violence ahead of the Kenyan national election next month, Facebook approved hate speech ads promoting ethnic violence

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Amid Global Crises, Africa Has Opportunities for Innovative Development Financing

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Ambassador Agnes Mary Chimbiri-Molande is the first female Malawi Permanent Representative to the United Nations headquarters in New York. She spoke to Africa Renewal’s Franck Kuwonu about her priorities and what Africa can do to mitigate the effects of climate change, COVID-19 and the Ukraine conflict as well as build resilience against future shocks. Here

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I Went Into the Government With Fight Against Female Genital Mutilation

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Morissanda Kouyaté, co-winner of the 2020 United Nations Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Prize was in New York to receive his prize on 18 July, Nelson Mandela International Day. Dr. Kouyaté is now the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Guinea. Until recently, he was the Executive Director of the Inter-African Committee on Harmful Traditional Practices (IAC), and

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ABUJA No1 SOCIAL MEDIA GURU ALEX REPORT, JULIE OKAH-DONLI, SAMAILA VANGAWA FLAGGED UP ANGO FESTIVAL AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE.

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The Partners of African NGOs and international donor organizations festival wish to thank all media that attended the press conference on 27th July 2022 in Abuja. We are grateful to you for attending the postponement of the event slated for 29th July 2022 and the announcement of the festival’s new date 29th September 2022 at

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Kwale girls join NGO programme to better lives

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She Leads is a five-year programme funded by Terre Des Hommes and conducted by the Network for Adolescent and Youth of Africa, a non-governmental organization. •NAYA programme officer Dorcus Mwachi says the programme has rescued many girls from gender-based violence and empowered them. BUSINESS: A section of girls from She Leads programme hold necklaces and bids made

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