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Gambia: Banjulinding Garden President On Constraints of Cash Power
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:17:26 GMT
[Foroyaa]
Foroyaa has published the concerns raised by some women gardeners at the Banjulinding horticultural garden sometime ago and promised to also get the views of the woman president of the garden on the challenges they facing as she was not present when this reporter visited the place.
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Gambia: EIF Provides Farming Inputs to Three Women Gardens
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 16:16:58 GMT
[Foroyaa]
The women horticultural gardeners in the settlements of Brufut, Kembujeh and Lamin have during the course of last week, through the Gambia Horticultural Producers and Exporters (GAMHOPE), benefited from support in the form of assorted vegetable production inputs provided by the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) project under the Ministry of Trade, Industry, Regional Integration and Employment. The objective of this EIF intervention is to increase producer productivity and yields to enhance household inco
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Angola: Etona Speaks About Women and Children At UN
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:37:28 GMT
[ANGOP]
Luanda -
Angolan plastic artist António Tomas Ana "Etona" has on agenda for the next days a trip to New York, United States of America, with the objective of lecturing at the United Nations (UN) on "Women in post war" and "Girls that suffered vicissitudes of war in Africa".
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Tanzania: NGOs Hailed Over Motherhood Bill
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:29:54 GMT
[Daily News]
Dodoma -
DOCTORS and nurses have hailed civil society organizations that drafted the Motherhood Bill, saying it will help improve maternal and reproductive health services.
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Tanzania: Government Urged to Designate FGM Day
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:28:48 GMT
[Daily News]
HUMAN rights activitists have urged the government to designate an International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) so as to send a stronger message to communities that practice it.
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Nigeria: Combating Female Genital Cutting
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:21:07 GMT
[Daily Trust]
On February 6 2012, the world marked the ninth annual International Day of Zero Tolerance to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C). 'Female Genital Cutting (FGC) is the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia for non-medical reasons.
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Nigeria: FG to Train 25 Women On Solar Energy in India
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 12:20:02 GMT
[Daily Trust]
The Federal Government will sponsor 25 market women for training on how to manufacture and assemble solar energy panels in India. National Coordinator of the Renewable Energy unit in the Federal Ministry of Environment, Mrs. Hadiza Abubakar disclosed this at a meeting with members of the House of Representatives Committee on Climate Change chaired by Rep Uzuiche Ubani (PDP, Abia) yesterday.
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Zambia: Camp Fire Project, Is It a Solution to Gender-Based Violence?
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:38:30 GMT
[Times of Zambia]
THE beatings started in their second year of marriage. Agnes Manda had just given birth to a baby, Sarah when her husband John, started coming home late and drunk.
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Liberia: Hello Gender Ministry!!!
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:35:20 GMT
[New Dawn]
This little boy and his family were seen taking rocks from sites where road works were still in progress in Monrovia. After snapping this boy and a few women, a few days later, several other persons again converged along those unfinished streets, this time, aggressively picking and hauling rocks from the sites where workers had been busy constructing public roads.
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South Africa: Women in Action Launch 2012 Save a Tamar Support Group for Victims of Abuse
Thu, 09 Feb 2012 11:21:00 GMT
[Biz-Community]
Trained trauma counsellors, some of whom are survivors of abuse themselves, welcomed visitors warmly to the first support group meeting organised by Women in Action (WiA) at the Universal Church of the Kingdom of God (UCKG) in Johannesburg last week.
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