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		<title>Their Education Ended in Marriage &#8211; Now They Are Opening the Classroom Doors Again</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 08:02:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a community in Kaduna State, three young women whose schooling was cut short by early marriage are helping other married women learn to read and write. Early marriage continues to shape the lives of countless girls in Kaduna State, particularly in the Kaduna North senatorial zone. The 2021 Nigeria Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey found [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Behind the Scenes to Prime Minister: Evika Siliņa’s Rise and Fall in Latvian Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 11:05:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[For years, Evika Siliņa worked behind the scenes of Latvian politics, advising ministers, navigating legislation and helping shape government policy. Then, in September 2023, the lawyer who had spent much of her career away from the political spotlight became Latvia’s prime minister. Her premiership lasted less than three years and was marked by questions of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>One Girl Every Three Seconds: The Fight to End Child Marriage</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:50:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every three seconds, somewhere in the world, a girl is married before she reaches adulthood. More than 12 million girls are married each year before the age of 18. Behind that statistic are children whose education, health, safety and choices can be profoundly affected by a decision they did not make. One of them is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>NIHSA Urges Media to Strengthen Public Awareness of Flood and Water Pollution Risks</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 10:41:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[NIHSA Urges Media to Strengthen Public Awareness of Flood and Water Pollution Risks The Nigeria Hydrological Services Agency (NIHSA) has called for stronger collaboration with environmental journalists to ensure that flood warnings, water safety information and other hydrological alerts reach vulnerable communities in time to prevent loss of lives and property. The Director-General of NIHSA, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nigeria’s Security Sector Urged to Strengthen Accountability for Sexual and Gender-Based Violence</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:37:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A national policy dialogue in Abuja has called for stronger accountability, safer reporting mechanisms and deeper integration of gender considerations across Nigeria’s defence and security institutions as stakeholders seek to strengthen responses to sexual and gender-based violence. The National Multi-Stakeholder Policy Dialogue on Sexual and Gender-Based Violence in Defence and Security Operations was organised by [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Beyond the Farm Gate, Nigeria Must Help Farmers Capture More Value</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 09:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nigeria’s agricultural transformation debate often begins with a familiar question: how can farmers produce more? But there is another question that deserves equal attention: who captures the value created after the crop leaves the farm? A farmer can spend months preparing land, buying seeds and fertilizer, planting, weeding, controlling pests, managing unpredictable weather, hiring labour [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nigerian-Born Shulamite Ezechi Named Social Leader of the Year at Scottish Women’s Awards</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Shulamite Ezechi has been named Social Leader of the Year at the Scottish Women’s Awards, marking a significant recognition for the Nigerian-born community leader and founder of ANYiSO Charity Organization. Ezechi, an author and women’s empowerment advocate, was recognized for her work supporting women, children, young people and families across Scotland, particularly people from ethnic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Crayfish River to the Presidency: Sylvanie Burton’s Historic Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a small Kalinago village called Crayfish River, one of eleven children was born into a family that could not have known that one of its daughters would eventually occupy a seat no woman in Dominica had ever held. That daughter was Sylvanie Burton. In 2023, she became Dominica’s first woman president and the first [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>How Women’s Savings Groups Are Building Economic Power in Bauchi</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Access to capital has long been a major barrier to financial independence for Nigerian women. In Bauchi State, an initiative by the Federation of Muslim Women’s Associations in Nigeria (FOMWAN) is demonstrating what can happen when women overcome that barrier not through external handouts, but by pooling their own resources. At the centre of the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Nigeria Launches National Platform to Track Violence Against Women Cases</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2026 07:41:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[More than 19,000 gender-based violence (GBV) cases have been logged in Nigeria since the National GBV Dashboard was launched in 2020, with 4,449 cases recorded in the first half of 2023 alone. Separately, the National Human Rights Commission documented more than 33,000 sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) cases between January and May of the reporting [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Five Election Defeats to President, Myriam Spiteri Debono’s Remarkable Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:19:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Gozitan Who Outlasted Every Closed Door On the small island of Gozo, separated from Malta by a narrow channel of blue water, a remarkable political life began with a quiet piece of parental wisdom. Born Miriam Zammit in Victoria, Gozo, in 1952, Myriam Spiteri Debono grew up under the watchful eye of her father, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>NAFOWA Trains Women to Turn Skills and Ideas Into Businesses</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Baking, tailoring, beadwork and catering are skills many women already possess. For the Nigerian Air Force Officers’ Wives Association (NAFOWA), however, possessing a skill is only the beginning. The bigger challenge is turning that ability into a sustainable source of income. NAFOWA President, Mrs Ngozi Aneke, made the case in Abuja on Saturday during the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From a Small Shop to a Voice for Women Across Africa, NIGAWD Turns 14</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2026 07:53:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Fourteen years ago, the New Generation Girls and Women Development Initiative (NIGAWD) began in a small shop with little more than an idea, determination and what its founder describes as a step of faith. Today, the women-led organization works across multiple areas of women&#8217;s rights, youth development, gender-based violence prevention, democratic participation and policy advocacy [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Law Professor to President, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova’s Historic Rise</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:19:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On 11 May 1953, Gordana Siljanovska-Davkova was born in Ohrid, a historic city in what was then the Socialist Republic of Macedonia, part of Yugoslavia. Decades later, she would become the first woman elected president of North Macedonia, following a career that took her from the lecture halls of the country&#8217;s oldest university to its [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Democratic Erosion Leaves Disabled Women on the Front Line</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:08:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[More than 600 million women and girls currently live within 50 kilometres of an active conflict zone, exposing them to the destruction, displacement and insecurity that accompany war. Conflict does not only destroy homes and livelihoods. It can also produce disability on a massive scale while increasing exposure to violence, injury and the loss of [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>INEC Urges Parties to Turn Commitments on Women in Politics Into Action</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2026 14:36:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Nearly half of Nigeria’s registered voters are women, but their presence in elected office remains disproportionately low, highlighting a persistent gap between women’s participation at the ballot box and their representation in government. The disparity was at the centre of discussions at a session organized by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) in Abuja, where [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Five Survivors Break Their Silence as GBV Campaign Reaches Over 200 in Oyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:40:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Five survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) privately disclosed their experiences during a six-day community sensitization campaign across parts of Iddo Local Government Area of Oyo State. The outreach, held from 26 to 31 August 2026, was implemented by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) and funded by the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Women Drive 74 Percent of West Africa’s Informal Trade as ECOWAS Calls for Reform</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:34:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Women account for 74 per cent of informal trade operations across West Africa, according to the ECOWAS Commission, highlighting their central role in an economy that often remains largely invisible in official trade statistics. The figure was disclosed by Christopher Mensah-Yawson, Director at the ECOWAS Commission Trade Directorate, during a parliamentary seminar in Abuja held [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Five Survivors Come Forward as EU-Funded GBV Campaign Reaches Over 200 in Oyo</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:20:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Five survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) have privately disclosed their experiences during a six-day community sensitization campaign carried out across parts of Iddo Local Government Area of Oyo State. The outreach, which held from August 26 to 31, 2026, was implemented by the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>From Academic Setback to the DRC’s First Female Prime Minister</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Sep 2026 15:03:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Picture a young woman standing outside an examination hall in Belgium, holding a paper that says she has failed her second year of university. She is far from home. Her father is an ambassador in the Congo, a man accustomed to navigating diplomatic rooms, and she has just experienced a failure of her own. For [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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