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Farmers Shape Global Future, Say World Leaders
Increasing agricultural production for smallholder farmers was a key topic during the the 35th session of the Governing Council of the International Fund for Agriculture Development.
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Africa: Is the AU's Women's Decade a Pipedream?
The African Women's Decade is a bold political initiative that aims to put women at the centre of development on the continent.
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Senegal: Two Women Among Presidential Candidates
Diouma Diakhaté Dieng, one of two female presidential candidates. Experts say this overwhelmingly Muslim West African country is not ready to be governed by a woman.
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Africa: Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Cutting
(File photo) U.S. Secretary of State Hilary Clinton in Nairobi. She recently spoke at the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation, held at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, DC. (Photo courtesy State Department)
Africa: Hormonal Contraception and HIV
Four months after a study suggested women on hormonal contraception may be at an increased HIV risk, the World Health Organization has reaffirmed the birth control method's safety. (Photo courtesy Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation)
Lesotho: Time to End Ban on Women Chiefs
The Lesotho Constitutional Court is considering the constitutionality of a law which denies women the right to succeed to chieftainship based on their gender. (Photo courtesy Mujahid Safodien/IRIN)
Nigeria: Safe Motherhood, Need for Quality Care
Since 2000, leaders in Nigeria have been working to set and meet the Millennium Development Goal target of lowering maternal mortality by 75 percent. (Photo courtesy Olivier Asselin)
Africa: Women Filmmakers Tell Their Stories
Filmmaker Sosena Solomon (left). Documentary filmmaking is an integral part of African cinema. Recently, allAfrica spoke with three women representing two generations of Ethiopian filmmaking. (Photo courtesy Sosena Solomon)
Prosecutors for Gender Violence Suits
(file photo) Kenyan civil society prosecutors will be hired to handle sexual and gender-based violence cases, the director of public prosecutions has said. (Photo courtesy Kate Holt/IRIN)
Africa: Risky Abortions Despite Law
(file photo) In Uganda, it's a criminal offence for any woman to have an abortion or for any person to assist in them, but illegal abortion is still a widespread practice. (Photo courtesy Maggie Fick)
Mali: Family Law Rolls Back Rights
Mali's President Amadou Toumani Toure has signed a new family law to cut out sections providing for greater women's freedoms. (Photo courtesy Tugela Ridley/IRIN)
Zimbabwe: When Birth Can Mean Death
In Muzarabani, Zimbabwe, the nearest clinic is 20 kilometres away, causing serious complications for childbirth. (Photo courtesy Manoocher Deghati/IRIN)
Somalia: More Sexual Violence in Camps
Cases of sexual and domestic violence are increasing in camps for internally displaced persons in the self-declared independent Republic of Somaliland. (Photo courtesy Borja Santos Porra/RNW)
No Time to 'Give Up' on HIV-Fighting Gel
Aids researchers are optimistic that they are learning as much from their failures as their successes. (Photo courtesy Emmanuel Pheta/allAfrica)
AU Urged to Recognise Women's Role in Trade
Most informal traders across Africa are women and their interests must be addressed, delegates to a gender summit told the African Union. (Photo courtesy Richard Duncombe)
Africa: Communities Abandon Female Genital Mutilation
A new United Nations report shows that almost 2,000 communities across Africa abandoned female genital mutilation/cutting last year. (Photo courtesy Kate Holt/IRIN)
Women Face Multiple Risks
Mothers and their children from near Pibor, in Jonglei State, South Sudan, have been displaced by recent ethnic tensions in this area. (Photo courtesy Isaac Billy)
Women's Banks Ease Tough Times
For most Ugandan women, obtaining a commercial loan to start a business has been very difficult. (Photo courtesy IRIN)
Uganda: Disabled and Poverty-Stricken, the Sad Reality of FGM
(file photo) A woman prepares food to be sold. Female circumcision, often referred to as female genital mutilation, affects an estimated 92 million girls in Africa aged 10 and above. In Uganda, the practice was officially banned in 2009 but it is still practiced in rural areas. (Photo courtesy Manoocher Deghati/IRIN)
Kenya: Male Circumcision - Women Need Counseling Too
A small Kenyan study has found that more women than men feel HIV is a less serious threat after their male partners are circumcised; the study also made local news for finding that female partners of recently circumcised men found sex more enjoyable. (Photo courtesy IRIN)
Climate Change and Human Rights
Mary Robinson with healthworker Nadhifa Ibrahim Mohamed. Mohamed has worked in Trócaire's Dollow Health Centre in Somalia for three years and is a certified midwife. (Photo courtesy MRFCJ)
Liberia: Women's Icon With Nerves of Steel
Sirleaf has attracted investment of more than U.S.$16 billion in the mining, agriculture and forestry sectors and offshore oil exploration, and has won more than four billion dollars in debt relief for Liberia. (Photo courtesy Liberian Government)
A group of Maasai youth and elders gather early one morning before a meeting about reproductive health begins in Magadi, Kenya. (Photo courtesy David Njagi)
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