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CGI partners announce new commitments to empower girls and women

afrol News, 24 September - Millions of girls and women will have access to improved health care, better education, and increased economic opportunity, thanks to the new commitments made at the Fifth Annual Meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI), which brings together leaders from across sectors of society to identify solutions to some of the world's most pressing problems.

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Global women’s forum make claim on economic stimulus funds

afrol News, 2 September - The global movement for women’s health and rights, has made an appeal for countries to earmark 1 percent of their economic stimulus funds for development needs.

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Senegalese police unit joins AU-UN peacekeeping force in Darfur

afrol News, 27 August - A contingent of police officers from Senegal arrived in Darfur today, adding to the strength of the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping force tasked with protecting civilians and ensuring access for humanitarian workers in the strife-torn Sudanese region.

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Grant to support grassroots development in Uganda

afrol News, 12 August - A US$50,000 grant to The Hunger Project (THP) has been made available to expand community mobilisation and leadership programmes in Uganda. Awarded by the Oprah's Angel Network, the programmes enable rural communities to overcome their own hunger and poverty on a sustainable basis.

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US assures women of support in food production

afrol News, 6 August - In its international initiative to help millions become food secure, the government of the United States will put special focus on women farmers, especially in Africa.

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» 23.07.2009 - Harsh sentence for abusive Swazi lover
» 26.06.2009 - 10, 000 girls to be repatriated to Nigeria
» 03.03.2009 - Tunisia leads Arab women organisation
» 17.11.2008 - African symposium focus on women's role in agriculture
» 17.10.2008 - $6.4 Million for rural agricultural project in Angola
» 10.10.2008 - DRC rural communities receive farming grant
» 09.10.2008 - IFAD funds poverty alleviating project in Senegal
» 23.07.2008 - Zimbabwe entrepreneurs struggle with hyperinflation
» 12.06.2008 - 3 million Ugandan minors risked forced labour
» 01.04.2008 - West African migrants bailed
» 20.03.2008 - 'Ghana mistreats refugees'
» 03.03.2008 - 'Eliminate harmful cultural practices'
» 28.01.2008 - Ghana shuns labour standard
» 25.10.2007 - Kenya leader shuns violence
» 24.10.2007 - Rwanda tops gender equity
» 26.06.2007 - First Mauritian govt budget to target women
» 25.06.2007 - US First Lady tours Africa
» 19.06.2007 - Gender violence outlawed in Sierra Leone
» 26.02.2007 - Zimbabwe women still far from liberation
» 22.02.2007 - Risky business of informal cross-border trade
» 19.12.2006 - Activists scold Gambia for harassing prostitutes
» 22.11.2006 - Botswana army rolls out carpet for women
» 19.10.2006 - Zim women face tough career or mothering decision
» 19.10.2006 - "Global Fund not for 1st ladies"
» 29.11.2005 - Malawi reviews marriage, divorce laws
» 09.11.2005 - Namibia urged to decriminalise sex workers
» 31.10.2005 - Growing prostitution observed under Zambia food crisis
» 08.03.2005 - Algeria union promotes women's rights
» 26.01.2005 - Togo's working women want more influence
» 30.06.2004 - Labour standards violated in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali
» 28.04.2004 - South Africa's women from housework to unemployment queue
» 09.03.2004 - Women's development highlighted in Djibouti
» 08.03.2004 - African AIDS widows left without inheritance
» 22.01.2004 - Somali women more engaged in decision-making
» 20.06.2003 - Rwandan women key to reconstruction
» 20.05.2003 - AIDS: "Women live with exhaustion, grief and depression"

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