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The Network Against Child Trafficking, Abuse and Labour (NACTAL), has called on stakeholders to ensure precautionary measures to protect vulnerable women and children against exploitation following displacements in the Borno flood. NACTAL’s National President, Mr. Abdulganiyu Abubakar, made the call at a press briefing at on Friday in Mr. Abdulganiyu Abubakar. Abubakar commiserated with the…
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South Sudan said Friday that long-awaited elections would be postponed for a further two years, once again extending a transitional period agreed in a peace deal. Citizens have waited to elect their leaders since the country achieved its hard-won independence from Sudan in 2011, with the world’s newest nation still dogged by violence, poverty and…
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Ursula Felkers moved to “Tin Can Town” in 2007 after being evicted from an apartment near the centre of Cape Town when a new landlord took over. She thought she would only be in Blikkiesdorp — where row upon row of shacks stand on a desolate plot next to Cape Town’s international airport — for…
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The Nigeria chapter of New Faces, New Voices (NFNV-Nigeria) has, over the years, bridged the barriers preventing Nigerian women from attaining their full potential and life sustenance. NFNV, a pan-African women-in-finance network under the Graça Machel Trust (GMT), focuses on promoting changes in the finance, entrepreneurship, digital skills, and other sectors by ensuring Africa benefits…
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The US. Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Richard Mills Jr. says his country wants Nigeria to have a bigger role and voice in world affairs because both countries share same values. The ambassador said he was committed to strengthening collaboration in areas old and new. Mills said this during his welcome reception hosted by the U.S.…
