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Sudan
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Sudan benefits gender education

afrol News, 25 October - A five-year Gender Equity through Education Programme has been launched in the Southern Sudanese capital of Juba. Launched by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in cooperation with the South Sudan government, a total of US $6.5 million has been earmarked for the programme.

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Liberia
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Illegal Liberians’ deportation contested

afrol News, 24 August - Thousands of illegal Liberians in the United States will be forced to leave on 1 October after the Department of Home Security has ended their Temporary Protected Status (TPS).

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Burkina Faso
Gender - Women
SMS saves Burkinabe girl from forced marriage

afrol News / IRIN, 23 April - Kadidiatou Korsaga, Director of Burkina Faso’s department for girls’ education promotion, despairs when asked about the recent case of a 15-year-old girl kidnapped from her school classroom and dragged off for an arranged marriage with an older man.

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Liberia
Gender - Women | Politics
All-women UN peace force arrives in Liberia

afrol News, 23 January - The war-ravaged West African state of Liberia is the first country in the world where an all-women UN peace keeping force is sent. The Commandeer of the Indian UN Formed Police Unit (FPU), Seema Dhundiya, landed in the Liberian capital Monrovia on Sunday. She was part of an advance team that came ahead of the deployment of a 125-strong force this month.

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Botswana
Gender - Women | Labour | Politics
Botswana army rolls out carpet for women

afrol News / IRIN, 22 November - Forty years after independence, Botswana is ready to recruit its first women soldiers to private and officer ranks, depending on their academic qualifications. "It took 20 years of lobbying, the last bastion is finally down," remarked an elated Ntombi Setshwaelo, spokeswoman for Emang Basadi, a women's rights organisation.

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