Rebeca Gyumi of Tanzania was honored Tuesday for her human rights work, during an awards ceremony for the United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights. Gyumi is the founder and executive director of the Msichana Initiative, a Tanzanian organization with a mission to empower girls through education and…
In Nigeria, the released Dapchi girls left Damaturu in midafternoon Wednesday, continuing their 135-kilometer journey to Maiduguri as part of a heavily secured military convoy. Nigerian state radio said the girls abducted from the Government Science and Technical College in February were first seen at Dapchi General Hospital before being…
On International Women’s Day, Lucy Asuagbor – the Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa based in The Gambia – called on Africans to “press for progress” in achieving gender equality. Asuagbor, speaking on behalf of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights, praised the continent’s success…
As the world noted the International Day of the Girl Child, a new report showed the 10 most difficult nations for girls when it comes to completing an education – and nine of them are in Africa. Some 130 million girls are out of school each day across the globe,…
When Teref Kassahun was interviewed by LeMonde Afrique in June, the member of the popular all-female Ethiopian music group “Yegna” shared an observation that the rest of the world likely never sees. “Most of them knew only our voices,” Kassahun said, describing a tour of Ethiopian villages where she learned…
Laureen is the editor of Africa Times
As girls across the globe stepped into their leadership shoes for #GirlsTakeover on Tuesday, their mentors at Plan International have been busy ensuring that their national leaders are accurately counting them. The recent “Counting the Invisible” report shows how the lack of good data on girls makes it so much easier…