Dr Yemisi Akinbobola giving her opening remarks.

Sixth AWiM Conference opens in Morocco with united in action call

Marking the 6th year of the esteemed AWiM Conference, media professionals, students, experts, and civil society organisations across Africa join together to tackle issues surrounding gender inequality in the industry. The conference featured a new format of hybrid meeting. — The African Women in Media (AWiM) sixth annual conference opened on Thursday in Morocco’s historical…

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AWiM22: Fighting media misogyny in Morocco

The AWiM2022 conference has commenced and it has gathered together an array of innovative experts to dissect the media’s role in issues affecting African women today. This year it’s all taking place in Morocco and many of the conversations revolve around the shifting opinions in the country. Though many positive changes have occurred in Moroccan…

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Peace and Security Fellows: Our journey so far

The AWiM/UNESCO Peace and Security journalism programme aims at enhancing the capacity of African female journalists on reporting peace and security. It aims to build the capacity of African women journalists to apply solutions journalism to reporting on women’s issues in peace and security. The project started by capacity training of selected journalists in solutions…

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Mermaids of Egypt

Sara El Laithy always loved the sea. But it wasn’t until 2016 that she became a mermaid. In fact, she is considered to be Egypt’s first mermaid.  As a child, she was not just drawn to the water, but to the world teeming with marine life meters below. El Laithy wanted to play a real…

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