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IWD: 10 Women Founders From Sierra Leone & Ghana You Should Know
Meet Five Women Founders from Ghana Who Scaled For Success Ten years ago, intoxicated by the “Africa Rising” propaganda at your favorite Ivy League grad schools, I left New York for the ...Three activists say women’s participation in political parties at the highest level is only way ...
A decade ago a coalition of women’s organizations lobbied and campaigned to make The Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s recommendation for a minimum Thirty Percent Quota for Women in Government law. The demand ...“Violence and love don’t mix” – Vickie Remoe on BBC’s The She Word (WATCH)
”Love and violence actually have no place together,” said Vickie Remoe on BBC’s #TheSheWord which broadcast on BBC TV last month. Vickie Remoe appeared on another episode of #TheSheWord, this time on ...H.E. Fatima Bio attends Merck Foundation First Ladies Summit in Dubai
H. E. Fatima Bio and her delegation are attending the Merck Foundation First Ladies Initiative Summit Dubai, UAE. The summit which began on 29th March with end on 1st April 2019. ...Sierra Leone: Aki-Sawyerr, Asmaa James, Natasha Beckley awarded for inspiring women
The Badenya Foundation marked women’s month with an awards night at Bliss in Freetown. Ten women from various disciplines were awarded for their contribution to the development of women and girls in ...Sierra Leone’s women share mixed views about abortion legalization
Adama Kamara, 43, Trader on Rawdon Street “Religiously it is against the will of God, this is a religious state. How can the Government legalize such a thing. We are practicing the ...Sierra Leone: A nurse from the diaspora at the ebola frontline
Nyamacoro Sarata Sillah is a head nurse administrator at the International Medical Corps Ebola Treatment Center in Lunsar, Sierra Leone. She returned from the UK during the ebola outbreak to serve knowing ...Sierra Leone: Zainab Bangura profiled in the NY Times
On the NYTimes’ Saturday Profile Sierra Leone’s one time Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Minister of Health, Zainab Bangura explains how her past experiences at home inform her current role as UN Special ...Sierra Leone: How One Woman fought back ebola in a town of 36,000
Hajia Aisha Isatu Daramy Kabia, a nurse and a Muslimah single-handedly led the fight against ebola in a town of 36,000 people, she was an ebola first responder weeks before help came ...Women in Sierra Leone wear yellow in solidarity against ebola
A day before Sierra Leoneans began a 3 days stay at home for ebola women and some men wore yellow as a part of a campaign to recognize women’s contributions to the ...