EASSI with support from GIZ-EAC-IIDEA organized a Regional Policy Dialogue on Enhancing Participation of Women Traders in the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The event, which transpired on 7th July 2022, brought together over 105 participants online via ZOOM,
By Anne Karago Today women are organising locally and nationally and are networking across the African continent on an unprecedented scale. They are on the frontlines, paving the way to gender equality and women’s rights. In Sub Saharan Africa,
By Brenda Aromorach The Women’s Movement aims at developing the capacity of women’s activism to ensure women’s power in their homes; possession of equal rights and ensure women’s rights over their bodies. The Women’s Movement enables women to collectively
By Anne Karago Human activities have led to disastrous loss of biodiversity, endangering the planet interconnected ecosystems, hence compromising our ability to co-exist in harmony with nature. This has resulted into endless crises, including extreme weather events, food crisis,
By Wendy Ngabire At the age of six, Adoli lost her father. Her mother gave Adoli to another family as she struggled to take care of her three other children. As Adoli grew up, her adoptive family refused to
By Alice Doris Alal In Kenya, the demographic and health survey of 2014 indicated that due to cultural norms 42% of women and men still believe that wife-beating is acceptable under some conditions. In October 2021, Kenyan record-breaking
By Maureen Chebor Jane Ngweso (not real name) was driving along Forest Road to Parklands in March 2022. While admiring the neat and newly constructed Nairobi Express Highway, a motorbike rider, popularly known as Boda Boda riders abruptly sped
By Brenda Aromorach In Uganda adolescents constitute over 9 million people, which is a quarter the population. For the majority of adolescents, life is really harsh. Poverty, coupled with HIV/AIDS; early marriages; teenage pregnancies; Gender-Based Violence, negative cultural practices and
Juba, More than 700 civilians in South Sudan have been abused sexually in the first quarter of this year, with the country seeing a rise in conflict-related abuse, a report by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) indicates.
For decades, African women have been trapped in poverty cycles due to several underlying factors including unequal access to education, factors of production, and trade facilities; inequitable labour-saving technologies; underpaid or unpaid labour; harmful cultural practices; and limited legal protection
By Anne Karago Samiya Ahmed in Beledweyne district in southern Somalia tells a chilling story of how the cruel hand of nature has reaped everything and relegated her to destitution. She sits and watches desperately at the sunken eyes
