View on Zencastr Peace Hillary is an accomplished Rwandan journalist with over 20 years of experience in the media profession. She serves as the Managing Director of Family Magazine, which focuses on gender issues, family promotion, women’s empowerment, combating Gender-Based Violence (GBV), and family conflicts. In episode 26 of Her Media Diary podcast, Peace shares…
Abandonment in marriage, also known as desertion, is a legal term that describes a situation where a spouse leaves the marital home without a justifiable reason or the other’s consent, otherwise known as actual abandonment. It could also be a scenario where the spouse is still physically present but withdraws support either emotionally, financially,…
Kano Gently, Yasmin peddles the sewing machine to finish up a maternity gown earlier started by her tutor. Her mind gushes through thoughts of the hard times that Covid-19 has placed her mother’s business, lowering it to its barest minimum and her inability to write Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) exams due to technical…
Safety especially journalist safety is very vital in this day and age we find ourselves. The corona virus pandemic has heightened the already present need for safety of journalists and now more than ever, journalists who are at the war front with health care workers deserve to be safe. Journalists in a bid to bring…
PRESS RELEASE For Immediate Release 29 July 2024 AWiM announces early bird tickets for its 8th annual conference African Women in Media (AWiM) is pleased to announce the launch of early bird ticket registrations for AWiM24, our 8th annual conference. AWiM in partnership with Article 19, will host its 8th annual African in Media…
In Partnership with Politics in Nigeria starts in various local communities and wards This story walks us through the importance of grassroots mobilisation to ensure many women vote Ede, a tailor in Edo State was unsure if she would vote in the lead-up to the 2023 elections. However, this soon changed on a certain evening…
A group of 200 Eastern African women journalists will soon be connected through an on-line resource hub addressing the COVID-19 pandemic and providing online training materials on how to cover the outbreak. The hub will also include a database with reference media content and links to good practices on reporting sanitary emergencies in the world. Read more…
Elizabeth Angira is one of the winners of the AWiM2022 Agenda 2063 Pitch Zone Awards. Elizabeth was among the winners announced during the closing ceremony of the sixth African Women in Media Conference (AWiM), which took place in Fez, Morocco on 9th December. Each year, during the annual African Women in Media Conference, female journalists…
Photo Credit: eibner saliba-Unsplash.com All over Africa, conflicts, dwindling economies, hunger, and inadequate healthcare facilities are some of the factors that have truncated the importance dedicated to breastfeeding. The World Breastfeeding Week, 2024 came at a desperate time more than ever before, especially for mothers in countries with serious cases of…
Photo credit- Emmanuel Ikwuegbu on Unsplash.com “Hello Aunty, good evening… That story, I don’t want to have anything to do with it again. People are calling my mother, they are threatening her…” the caller said with a trembling voice and the call ended abruptly Sighs… The phone call was brief, but the desperation was…
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…
By Anna Namiriano, Editor In Chief of the Juba Monitor It is hardly newsworthy that women are grossly underrepresented in the media in Africa. In Sub Saharan Africa, women only make 5 percent of top management [PDF] according to a 2011 global media report by the International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF); in some countries, especially war…
