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1 1ShareThe Civil Society Legislative Advocacy Centre (CISLAC) has condemned in totality the ongoing herders-farmers conflicts in parts of Nigeria and bemoans the “seeming slow and inefficient” response of the Nigerian … Read More
Kenya’s Ruth Oniang’o, chair of the Sasakawa Africa Association (SAA) and Sasakawa Fund for Extension Education (SAFE), has been awarded the 2017 Africa Food Prize, in recognition of her … Read More
As countries commemorate the 2017 World Breastfeeding Week (August 1- 7) no country in the world fully meets recommended standards for breastfeeding, says a new report by UNICEF … Read More
Tina Balewa is the executive director of Ziongate Empowerment Initiative for the Less Privileged (ZEIP) a grassroots civic organization working around gender mainstreaming and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in … Read More
Funding shortfalls are threatening education for millions of children caught up in conflicts or disasters, UNICEF said today ahead of the G20 summit in Hamburg. Of the $932 million needed … Read More
The World Environment Day (WED), which is the UN’s biggest annual event for positive environmental action and takes place every 5 June, was celebrated across the globe on … Read More
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has decried the ‘alarming surge’ in the number of children used in ‘suicide’ attacks in the Lake Chad conflict; the figures has surged to … Read More
Not less than 200 million women and girls around the world are living with the damage caused by Female Genital Mutilation/ Cutting (FGM/C), says the United Nations. This was contained … Read More
Restoration needs along Africa’s drylands have been mapped and quantified for the first time A groundbreaking map of restoration opportunities along Africa’s Great Green Wall has been launched at the … Read More
The Aid and International Development Forum (AIDF) is set to hold its 2nd Annual Aid & Development Africa Summit in Nairobi, Kenya, between February 28 and March 1 2017. … Read More
