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March 2025

A woman sitting amid a crowd of people looks up to her left while holding a baby wrapped in a light-coloured blanket with a cartoon animal pattern. A woman behind her, to the right of the frame, looks off-camere and is wearing a red, white and blue patterned dress.

“I arrived with nothing but my life”

Peace & Security

A bone-dry part of the River Niger at Mopti, a major town in the Sudano-Sahelian zone of Mali.

Floods and droughts are two sides of the same crisis

Modou Fall campaigns for a Senegal free of single use plastic.

The ‘Plastic Man’: Turning trash into treasure

plastic Social Protection

The Maison des Esclave or Slave House is now a museum and UNESCO heritage site.

Gorée Island and the ‘fragility of freedom’

Social Protection

A view of the head table during the opening session of the Fourth World Conference on Women in Beijing. Gertrude Mongella (left, standing at the podium), Secretary-General of the Conference, delivers her address.

Gertrude Mongella, 80, reflects on the landmark Beijing Conference and lessons for the future

Social Protection

Ebaide Quincee Omiunu is one of the young African women attending the 69th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) at the UN headquarters in New York.

Beijing+30: Women can drive positive change in Africa

Social Protection

African women leaders and partner organizations.

African women are leading, but more support is needed

Gender Equality Social Protection

Christabel Kwasi, a young Ghanian farmer and mother, learned that with better farming practices, she and her family can rely on fonio all year-round.

Cultivating fonio, cultivating traditions

Social Protection

Senegalese women transforming dumpsite into urban gardens.

The Senegalese women transforming polluted spaces into urban gardens

Students harvest cabbage in the restive North Kivu, DRC, where many WFP-supported school meal programs also encourage communities to grow vegetables to supplement their diets.

In crisis-hit parts of Africa, WFP school meals offer a vital lifeline to kids - and their families

WFP Social Protection

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