PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release. 6 NOVEMBER, 2024 African Women in Media (AWiM) is delighted to announce the launch of the UNESCO IPDC-funded programme, “TRAKD: Developing Tools and Resources towards adoption of the Kigali Declaration in newsrooms in Africa.’’This two-month programme will be in collaboration with UNESCO under the IPDC…
When Hana Saada, a doctoral female student at the University of Algiers Benyoucef Benkhedda, looks at the news, she barely sees women in science on the pages of the newspaper or on screen. There’s barely a sound of them on radio too. One would be think that there are few or no women in science. The former…
Can you share with us a bit about your journey? I am a filmmaker from The Central African Republic and the CEO of my company named Illustro Productions. After I graduated from university in Paris, I went back to my country and realized that many things had to be done within the audio-visual sector. Alongside a…
ABUJA – In September 2016, a study on Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) conducted in Nigeria by NOI Polls reported that access to food, water, medicines and relief materials remain big issues to most IDPs; and sadly, women are mostly at the receiving end. About 85 percent of the IDPs interviewed, at the time, said they…
“I lost my pregnancy as a result of the beatings from my husband,” Aisha Mohammed narrated. “It all started in the second year of our marriage when he started accusing me of stealing food items from his house. Ishaku, my husband, has four children from his ex-wife, and all of us live together,” the 22-year-old…
Samantha “Gonyeti” Kureya and Sharon “Magi” Chideu have been creating humorous and satirical content tackling the day-to-day issues affecting ordinary Zimbabweans for nearly a decade. Mention Gonyeti and Magi and you will get knowing nods and smiles in response. Kureya chose Gonyeti as her stage name with reference to the size of her body – Gonyeti is street slang for the size of haulage trucks. Chideu goes…
Click to read in French It was a moment that would forever change her life. Sitting with her sibling who had recently moved to Côte d’Ivoire, she listened intently as they shared stories of opportunity, growth, and new beginnings. “It was never in my thoughts that I would ever go to Côte d’Ivoire until one…
‘Your network is your networth’ is an adage that we often hear about. In this episode, Kenyan multiple-award winning journalist and writer Christine Mungai, shares with us how her network paved her way into journalism after studying for a science degree. Her journey is aspiring and intriguing as she chronicles how she goes beyond descriptive…
Amid the ongoing Cameroonian civil war which started as a low-scale insurgency in the Southern Cameroons leaving thousands of people killed and more than half a million displaced, a female journalist has set up a foundation to empower women and Internally Displaced Persons with relevant skills through capacity training among other things. A 2021 report…
12-year-old Chinecherem* did not know that her life will change automatically that eerie mid-morning, past midnight, on 24th August 2022, when she went outside of her house to answer the call of nature. Raised by a single mum, Chinecherem* lived with the mother and brother in an apartment that has no toilet facilities; hence they practice…
Kerawa It is one of those hot mornings in the Kerawa Refugee Camp in Cameroon’s arid Far North region. So hot that by 8 AM, temperatures are soaring up to 47 degrees Celcius. A good number of the women and children displaced by the recent intercommunal clashes are up and about. At one end of…
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