Maureen Ndamwe shares her 9 years of journey working for a local radio station in Turkana County. How she managed through those years still amazes her. Turkana county in Kenya is known for 4 things… 1. Being the only place in Kenya where the government has struck oil. 2. Being the face of ravishing famine every…
Maimuna Muhammad Babangida reports on the peace and security situation in Nigeria’s IDP Camp. Armed bandits in Niger State have forced people to flee their homes. Maimuna details how women and children bear the brunt of this banditry in the audio story below… This story is part of the African Women in Media (AWiM)…
Betty Sunday is a sad woman. She sits in silence as she ponders over reports she has heard from local radio stations. She is wondering what is likely to happen as an outcome of the Jonglei Canal that the government plans to resume digging. According to Ms Sunday who is also a woman representative, these…
Christabel Ligami, one of the award winners at the awim19 conference shares snippets of her career journey while talking about the place of data and policy in journalism. Please tell us about yourself My name is Christabel Ligami, a Kenyan freelance journalist. I am a multi-award-winning journalist both internationally and regionally. I have a master’s…
In Partnership with Money is among the hydra-headed challenges militating against women politicians in Nigeria. In this report, JULIANA FRANCIS examines how money limits and discourages women from political participation, with the report throwing up likely solutions. She is a stickler for punctuality. She and the reporter had agreed to meet at Radisson Blu,…
Par Ambroisine MEMEDE, Etonam SOSSOU et Héléna MARTELOT Au centre Kekeli, niché dans le quartier Nyékonakpoè à Lomé, Justine , 12 ans, élève en classe de 5ème, survivante de violences sexuelles, raconte d’une voix tremblante son quotidien d’avant : « Chaque soir, il me demandait de me déshabiller… J’avais l’impression d’étouffer sous son poids. »…
Translated by Ngo Fidele Juliette Le Maroc est devenu un carrefour pour divers types de migration, notamment les travailleurs migrants, les étudiants internationaux et les migrants en transit. Bien que les migrants en transit représentent le groupe le plus petit statistiquement, ils demeurent le principal centre d’intérêt tant pour les décideurs politiques marocains et européens…
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Harare Shupikai Chitauro from Guruve South Ward 10 smiles as she looks at a year old 4,500 gum tree plantation she and her Focus 2 Group planted, but sadness suddenly takes over as she recalls what they have been through as she implores gender equality to land access. Ms Chitauro laments how the group struggled…
In Partnership with The game of sex in politics Caroline Katana digs into how sex is used as a tool to pull down women in politics With her shy demeanour and disarming smile, Hawaa Abdul Salim is the type of person you will likely never see angry no matter the circumstances. We spoke about her…
Click to read in French Nyasha Melissa Chisoko remembers the moment her first sale came through. She was in her small apartment in Johannesburg, nursing her newborn and watching online pre-orders trickle in for the very first time. “I cried,” she says. “Not because it was a huge amount of money, but because someone believed…
Nelly Ating has been documenting the plight of child victims of Boko Haram, in the norther part of Nigeria. Ating, a photojournalist, focuses on the trauma inflicted on the children by the militia. While telling the stories of children caught up in the crosshairs of conflict is Ating’s driving force, she told AWiM News that…
