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Through its National Chapters, the African Women Leaders Network is mobilizing women towards a continental movement that will elevate the status of women's leadership in Africa.
—Tali Nates, Founder and Executive Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust and Genocide Centre
A flagship project of the African Union’s Agenda 2063, the African Continental Free Trade Area creates a market of 1.2 billion people with a combined GDP of $3 trillion.
18-country study examines the impact of attacks on infrastructure and physical damage, formal and informal economies, and of 'security spending' on development processes.
The virus is now moving from high density urban areas to to rural areas with lower population density.
— Aya Chebbi, African Union Youth Envoy
International Youth Day 2020 - “Youth Engagement for Global Action.”
The risk of COVID-19 infection from breastfeeding is negligible and has never been documented, the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Tuesday, in a call for greater support for the practice.