Fashion Resolution For The New Year
Making resolutions at the start of a new year is always a good idea. The new year is a time for new beginnings, progress, and change. Give yourself the gift of a new fashion mindset and a new wardrobe in 2022, whether it’s cleaning out your closet to make way for new pieces, fully modifying […]
Choose Life and See Good Days
In the new covenant, God wants us to come back to believing and speaking. I am not denying that the darkness, barrenness, sickness, or infirmity that you may be faced with is there. I am asking you to speak by faith what you want to see. While God saw the darkness, instead of speaking what […]
Fighting Abuse of Women In Western Cape Farmlands
In part one of a four-part series on gender-based violence and grassroots activism, we look at an anti-GBV community-response team in the small Western Cape town of Klapmuts. It is a tall order for an organisation with no funding to provide protection and safety for female victims of gender-based violence (GBV) 24 hours a day. […]
Program to Prepare 200 Women to Run for Elective Office Launched
A program to promote meaningful participation of women in politics was launched on 28 December. The program will train and coach 200 women drawn from all 15 counties on effective political participation. The training kicks off on January 3 and will run until January 5, 2022. It aims to boost women’s confidence and their activism […]
UN Provides Health Services and Supportive Programmes to Adolescents Girls
With the emergence and spread of COVID-19 across the world, social, political and economic activities came to a standstill in many countries, including Somalia. The implementation of movement restrictions meant that people had to stay at home round the clock. The restrictions have notably increased incidences of gender-based violence (GBV) against women and girls, as […]
UN ASG Lauds Former President Sirleaf
Sara Beysolow Nyanti has extolled former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for being the first Liberian to recognize and celebrate her (Sara’s) appointment as Assistant Secretary-General of the United Nations. On December 6, 2021, Mrs. Sara Beysolow Nyanti, Deputy Special Representative for the United Nations Mission in South Sudan and Resident Coordinator in South Sudan was […]
Attorney General Thabo Nyirenda Gives Government Fraudsters a 60-Day Amnesty to Pay Back
Malawi’s Attorney General, Thabo Chakaka Nyirenda has issued out a 60-day amnesty to all alleged crooked companies and individuals who have defrauded the public purse in their business dealings or illegally acquired wealth through procurement fraud and corruption to voluntarily pay back the said wealth or face the long arm of the law. Government’s Chief […]
Rwandan Oncologists in New Drive to Fight Stigma, Myths About Cancer
Local oncologists have launched a writing contest, where survivors and other people who have cancer-related stories can share their experiences, in an initiative aimed at fighting stigma and myths about the disease in the country. The oncologists are organised under the Rwanda Cancer Relief (RCR), an organisation that also comprises other people, for example, survivors […]
Questions to Ask Yourself Before Committing to a New Relationship
Valentine’s Day is tomorrow, which means candy hearts, hard-to-get dinner reservations, and possibly a powerful urge to leap into a relationship, stat. After all, with so much love in the air, it’s hard not to think about getting serious with that special someone you’ve been seeing. But before you get ahead of yourself, take a […]
What Are Peptides?
What are peptides? Peptides are short chains of amino acids that occur naturally in the skin and are the building blocks of proteins. In cosmetic products (or skin-care products), peptides can mimic the protein sequences in collagen and elastin and stimulate production, says Geeta Yadav, MD, a dermatologist and founder of Skin Science Dermatology in […]
Lilian Diedericks: Another Forgotten Symbol of Freedom
It is worrying that after 1968 most sources are ambivalent about Lillian Diedericks. It is appalling that most of them do not question the downplaying of her leading role as a liberation activist. “Tshepo mom Lillian Diedericks passed away this morning.” That was the text message sent to me, on Tuesday, 21 December at 6.44pm by […]
Catholic Nuns Lift Veil On Abuse In convents
When young nuns at a convent in Eastern Europe told their Mother Superior that a priest had tried to molest them, she retorted that it was probably their fault for “provoking him”. When African nuns in Minnesota asked why it was always they who had to shovel snow they were told it was because they […]
Health Official Alleges ‘Sexual Slavery’ In Tigray; Women Blame Soldiers
The young mother was trying to get home with food for her two children when she says soldiers pulled her off a minibus in Ethiopia’s Tigray region, claiming it was overloaded. It was the beginning of an 11-day ordeal in February, during which she says she was repeatedly raped by 23 soldiers who forced nails, […]
Supporting Somali Women to Tell Their Own Stories
UNDP is working with the Somali Arts Foundation to combine women’s poetry, photography and filmmaking in powerful online and offline exhibitions “Women see life differently to men, so it’s important they tell their own stories,” says Zaima Abdi Ali, camera in hand, a smile on her face. A veterinary student in her final year, Zaima […]
The Current Situation of Diversity in Entrepreneurship
Below is an excerpt on how to create diversity in entrepreneurship from Beyond Diversity: 12 Non-Obvious Ways to Build a More Inclusive World, a new book out by Jennifer Brown and Rohit Bhargava. People from marginalized groups have often started their own ventures as a response to workplace discrimination, but these entrepreneurs frequently lack adequate funding […]