Volunteers and NGOs Work to Eradicate Gender Violence in Mozambique

The recent achieve­ment of a group of female vol­un­teers opposed to ‘vio­lence against women’ in cen­tral Mozam­bique pro­vides a good chance to exam­ine the coun­try’s gen­der-based vio­lence prob­lem in greater depth. Rec­og­niz­ing the defi­cien­cies and a lack of progress in human rights in Mozam­bique, Mariem Marouani takes a look at the crit­i­cal impact that these…

6 African Development Stories You May Have Missed

No doubt, coro­n­avirus has become one of the dead­liest dis­eases in mod­ern his­to­ry, with about 500,000 casu­al­ties world­wide. The pan­dem­ic has left in its wake severe eco­nom­ic con­se­quences, espe­cial­ly for the world’s devel­op­ing nations. Despite the many socio-eco­nom­ic chal­lenges faced and exac­er­bat­ed by the pan­dem­ic, many African nations have shown great resilience. The news continues…