THE NSANJE AGRICULTURAL PROJECT MALAWI, SOUTHEAST AFRICA Life is incredibly difficult for a large segment of the population of the African nation of Malawi. Considered among the world’s least developed nations, poverty-stricken Malawi is a place in which: Every five seconds a child dies from hunger-related causes. Long periods of drought and frequent natural disasters …
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Ce jeudi 21 avril 2022, une délégation du FOSCAO Bénin a été reçue à la Direction des Relations avec les Institutions et de la Promotion des Dynamiques Sociales Au menu des échanges: -Ancrage institutionnel du FOSCAO Bénin, – Dynamiques de collaboration légale, -Point des activités. Rappelons que le FOSCAO Bénin est la Plate-forme Nationale de …
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Melinda French Gates to lead a discussion on equity and innovation for Africa’s recovery. On the side-lines of the 26th Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Rwanda, and the Kigali Summit on Malaria and Neglected Tropical Diseases, Africa.com will convene a virtual audience to join a live discussion in Kigali. Equity …
Story by Rita Abiodun, Oxfam in Nigeria’s Media and Communications Officer “I have consistently stepped down all of the training I’ve received from our workshops to women farmers in my community,” said Hafsat Saleh Yaro, 33-year-old mother of three from Faggo village in Shira local government area of Bauchi State. Bauchi, just like most states …
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As the cost of essential goods rises faster than it has in decades, billionaires in the food and energy sectors are increasing their fortunes by $1 billion dollars every two days. For every new billionaire created during the pandemic — one every 30 hours — nearly a million people could be pushed into extreme poverty …
Nigeria’s debt servicing is sucking away precious revenues from low levels of public spending – this means the fiscal system is working even less hard to fight inequality. Over the past five years, Nigeria has spent an average of 49% of its revenue on debt servicing, and in 2020, before COVID, this was expected to …
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In Burkina Faso, UN humanitarians on Friday appealed to the international community for help, after attacks by armed groups forced thousands to flee their homes in the east of the country. According to an alert from the UN refugee agency, UNHCR, almost 16,000 mostly women and children, have been displaced to Dori, after gunmen killed at least …
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Village Savings and Loan Association (VSLA) is a key component of a gender standalone initiative that cuts across most of Oxfam in Nigeria’s projects. VSLAs are self-managed community-based groups that provide their members access to basic financial services. They respond directly to the unmet financial service needs of the remote and rural poor by providing: A …
Our economy is broken. The absurd levels of wealth exist alongside desperate poverty. Since 2015, the richest 1% has owned more wealth than the rest of the planet. In countries around the world, including Nigeria, a small elite are taking an ever-increasing share of their nation’s income, while hundreds of millions of people are still …
The African Union Commission and the AU’s Economic, Social and Cultural Council (ECOSOCC) in partnership with the African Security Sector Network (ASSN) and African Policing Forum (APCOF), organized a virtual training for member states and Regional Economic Communities (RECs)/Regional Mechanisms (RM) engaged in Security Sector Reform, on Security sector oversight mechanisms, from 14-15 June 2022. The …
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