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By Nqobani Ndlovu, Bulawayo, 8 July: Zimbabweans living with disabilities feel left out in the fight against Covid-19 two months after the government was dragged to court by advocacy groups representing persons with hearing and visual impairments demanding information on the disease in formats they could access. A mother of 5 from Pumula suburb, Violet […]

By Vonona Rakotondratsimba, Antananarivo,3 July: 55 cas de viols ont été enregistrés auprès du Centre Vonjy, sis au Centre hospitalier universitaire de gynécologie-obstétrique de Befelatanana (CHU-GOB), en Mai 2020. Comparé aux statistiques du premier trimestre de cette année, ce nombre a connu une chute. Avant la crise sanitaire, environ 79 cas sont traités tous les mois.  D’un […]

By ‘Makuena Linake, Maseru, 30 June: – Arranged child marriages continue to occur in the Thaba Tseka district despite the call by the government for the practice to come to an end. Recently, a 15 year-old girl from Ha Mats’umunyane Thaba Tseka, was forced to marry a 24 year-old man on June 12 2020. She […]

By Jenifer Gilla, Dar es Salaam, 29 June: Ashura Athumani is one of few women entrepreneurs in Dar es Salaam who have started benefiting from the effective use of social media marketing to scale up their businesses. A mother of two is engaging in selling wedding gowns, and owning a beauty salon business in Gongolamboto […]

Gibson Mhaka Bulawayo, 29 June: The World Environment Day went unnoticed for Sibongile Zulu (56) from Sibombo Village in Lupane, which like other districts in Matabeleland North province, has suffered from increasing temperatures, uneven distribution and variability of rainfall and drought. Ironically, Zulu whose life is inextricably tied to the use of the environment for […]

 The Centres of Excellence (COE) for Gender in Local Government COVID-19 Rapid Response Survey in nine Southern African countries sought to gather information on how Gender Links (GL) can support local authorities’ in mainstreaming gender into their responses to the pandemic. The sample covered 98 councils or 27% of the COEs that GL works with across the […]

Heightened violence against women is intimately intertwined with disaster situations including pandemics such as COVID -19 that the world is currently facing. South Africa is witnessing a spike in Gender Based Violence and Femicide with an increasing number of women being killed over the past 100 days .  In condemning the spate of killings of […]

By Vonjy Arisoa Antananarivo, 24 June: Les patients atteints du VIH-SIDA sont parmi les plus vulnérables en cette période d’urgence sanitaire. Selon les faits mondiaux, l’interruption des médicaments de ces patients est souvent la principale cause de leur fragilité. Pour éviter donc les risques de détérioration de leur santé, les traitements doivent se poursuivre. La […]

By Thabani Mpofu, Bulawayo, 22 June: Many stories have been written on the heightened and grave health risks faced by the health professionals, care givers, and other essential workers. But little attention has been given to the writers of these stories, the journalists, who are the eyes and ears of the public. Covid-19 pandemic presents […]

By Jenipher Changwanda Lilongwe, 22 June: Gender activists in Malawi are calling for equal representation of women and men in decision making process after President Peter Mutharika announced the restructuring of special cabinet committee on Covid-19 to a task force. Mutharika recently appointed a 21-member presidential task force of which four are women, representing 19 […]