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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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Sudan
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AU-UN Dafur mission donate supplies to female prison

afrol News, 25 August - The joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping mission in Darfur has donated supplies to a women’s prison in the western Sudanese region.

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Sudan
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Special unit to guard gender and sexual violence for Darfur

afrol News, 19 August - The police component of the joint African Union-United Nations peacekeeping operation in Darfur has established a special investigations unit to monitor and report on crimes involving sexual and gender-based violence, a prevalent problem in the western Sudanese region.

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Tunisia
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Tunisia leads Arab women organisation

afrol News, 3 March - Tunisia’s First Lady, Leila Ben Ali, has been selected as a chair of the Arab Women Organization (AWO) from 2009 to 2011, Minister of Women, Family, Children and the Elderly, Mrs Sarra Kanoun Jarraya has announced in the Capital Tunis.

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Sudan
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Dafur women saved from attempted abduction

afrol News, 14 January - A group of Darfuris women was saved from the hands of bandits who are believed to have been on a mission to take them hostages or possible war slaves.

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» 25.10.2007 - Kenya leader shuns violence
» 19.10.2007 - Cry for Ugandan gays
» 03.09.2007 - Row over South African minister’s health turns sour
» 04.05.2007 - In South Africa, women still are underdogs in the media
» 11.04.2007 - South Africa sets pace for regional gender equality
» 05.04.2007 - Mozambique celebrates its women heroes
» 04.04.2007 - Gender quotas win the day in Lesotho
» 04.04.2007 - Malagasy vote on President’s powers
» 28.03.2007 - Senegal guarantees gender balance in legislative polls
» 28.03.2007 - Zambia's female boxing star challenges stereotypes
» 15.03.2007 - Disappointment over women's share of Lesotho MPs
» 26.02.2007 - Zimbabwe women still far from liberation
» 23.01.2007 - All-women UN peace force arrives in Liberia
» 22.01.2007 - Activists celebrate Tanzanian woman's UN appointment
» 07.11.2006 - Zimbabwe women preach love to demand change
» 24.10.2006 - Women still missing from Zambia politics
» 24.10.2006 - Will Madagascar produce woman President?
» 18.10.2006 - Male-ruled Lesotho hosts many women role models
» 10.04.2006 - Unions to increase Congolese women's part-take in politics
» 08.02.2006 - Calls for female inheritance to Lesotho's throne
» 23.11.2005 - Ms Sirleaf confirmed Liberia's President
» 22.06.2005 - Big step towards woman President in South Africa
» 17.06.2005 - Egypt police protected men attacking women journalists
» 03.05.2005 - Malawi gender activists told not to fight men
» 28.04.2005 - Men annoyed by Lesotho's "women elections"
» 04.03.2005 - Rwanda, Mozambique have highest women MP percentage
» 26.01.2005 - Togo's working women want more influence
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