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For Shamsa Araweelo, it’s not enough to tell her story as an FGM survivor in only general terms.

Women’s rights

A rose to break the silence: Shamsa Araweelo campaigns against FGM

Shamsa Araweelo suffered genital mutilation at age six and then a violently abusive marriage as an adolescent. Today she speaks unsparingly on TikTok about what she experienced and campaigns to protect other girls from sharing her fate.

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno

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The success of Malawi’s women’s national football team encourages investment in grassroots programmes for girls.

Education

How Malawi’s football success is opening doors for girls

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by Benson Kunchezera
Protest against gender-based violence in South Africa in September.

Gender equality

For women in South Africa, working until dark is not an option

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by Winile Ximba
Processing and selling cassavas leaves can provide an income to women in Burundi.

Women’s independence

What Sarah makes before Burundi wakes: the business of cassava leaves

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by Mireille Kanyange
Women are primarily responsible for managing their families’ daily lives in the Aboutengue refugee camp.

Women in conflicts

Women’s daily lives in a refugee camp: attacks, shortages and queues

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
An anti-corruption demonstration in Abuja in 2016. Ten years on, the situation has not improved significantly.

Corruption

Protecting the people who know where the money went

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by Obongodu Paul Unanam

Gender equality

Speaking out about violence against women in Cameroon

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by Glein Neneng
Ghana’s foreign minister, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, at the opening of the Consultative Conference in Accra.

Slavery

Humanity’s gravest crime: “Recognition creates responsibility”

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by Dasmani Laary
The coaching staff of the Tanzanian men’s national team.

International football

“The first thought is: We need a man for this.”

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by Carolin Braun
by Eva-Maria Verfürth
Rael Lomoti and members of one of her Desert Roses teams on their way to a match.

Football stories

Women’s football in the Kenyan desert

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by Katharina Wilhelm Otieno
Zambian women take part in the International Women’s Day celebration in Lusaka, the country’s capital, in March 2024.

Gender equality

Promoting women’s property rights in Zambia

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by Beaulah N. Chombo