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Decorreu esta sexta-feira, 8 de Março, em Maputo, o lançamento nacional da Iniciativa Spotlight, na presença de Sua Excelência Ministra do Género, Criança e Acção Social, Cidália Chaúque de Oliveira, do Director Geral da Cooperação Internacional e do Desenvolvimento da Comissão Europeia, Stefano Manservisi, em visita ao país, e
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The 2019 Stanbic Bank National Sevens Circuit will kick off on the 21 st of July 2019 with the Kakamega Sevens at the Bull Ring. In 2017, Menengai Cream Homeboyz won the bid to host the additional leg of the sevens circuit for two years, which they did in Eldoret
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After a visit to Israel and Palestine on 21 February through 1 March, a delegation of South African and African-American church leaders, released a Group Pilgrimage Statement on Israel and Palestine. The group was a joint delegation of leaders from historic black denominations of the National Council of Churches
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A newly opened drop-in centre for migrants in Sudan will pay special attention to the needs of vulnerable women and ensure they receive gender-sensitive protection and assistance. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) runs several migrant resource centres (MRCs) in the Horn of Africa, with the newest being
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On 8 March, International Women’s Day (IWD), the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Nigeria organized a one-day workshop and sensitization event in Ikeja, Lagos for 25 women, including seven female migrant returnees from Libya. The event was conducted in collaboration with the Lagos State Ministry of Women
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“Leaving for success, for the honour of our mothers…This is only our mothers’ fault.” Marie Mané sings this refrain, repeated in unison by a chorus of 40 women gathered at the Monument de la Renaissance in Dakar. This refrain is more than a song for these mothers, daughters and
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A two-day briefing for new Ministers of Health in the WHO African Region, has ended today in Brazzaville, Congo. Ministers of health from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire and Guinea participated in the event which aimed at fostering better understanding of how WHO functions and on the
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The top 30 health-oriented innovations selected from a field of more than 2 400 entries to the first-ever WHO Innovation Challenge will be presented on opening day of the second WHO Africa Health Forum in Praia, Cabo Verde, on 26 March 2019. The WHO Innovation Challenge received a
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The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities will meet in Geneva from 11 March to 5 April 2019 to review the following countries: Cuba, Niger, Norway, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Spain, Turkey, and Vanuatu. The above are among the 177 States that have ratified the Convention on
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A five-year study of Ebola survivors in Liberia (funded by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, or NIH) has found that although certain health problems remain more common among survivors than among their household and sexual contacts who never had the virus, overall, the health of survivors improved
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The Brazilian government strongly condemns the attacks carried out on February 28, in Mogadishu, Somalia, which killed at least 20 people and wounded dozens more. Brazil expresses its solidarity and sympathies with the families of the victims and its wishes of a full recovery to those wounded. It also reiterates
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As the world celebrates the International Women’s Day, I want to convey a special greeting on behalf of the Secretary-General and myself to the women of Libya. The theme this year is [“Think Equal, Build Smart, Innovate for Change”](http://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2019/3/