After decades of working with women entrepreneurs in Sub-Saharan Africa, I am hopeful that Ivanka Trump’s initiative will deliver change, provided the interventions are designed for lasting results. To effectively meet the program’s ambitious goal of supporting 50 million women in developing countries by 2025, we will need more than the usual generic, short-term approaches …
For the first time, India was ranked the most dangerous country for women with regards to sexual violence by the 2018 Thomson Reuters perception survey. The results sparked heated debates in India, which was ranked ahead of Syria, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Saudi Arabia. In my opinion, the results were not surprising. The 548 …
IDJWI ISLAND — From my home in Idjwi, an island in Lake Kivu between the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda with a population of 300,000, I’ve been watching the U.S. measles outbreak with a mixture of astonishment and incredulity. The U.S. outbreak, with nearly 1,000 reported cases so far, is due in large part due to …
KEFFI, NIGERIA – In the rural village of Kura in Kano State, Nigeria, where I grew up, my grandfather would lose more than half of his tomatoes after each harvest. He was not a bad farmer. But bad roads made it difficult for him to get his tomatoes to market, and he had never learned …
Hawa was 12. Arma is 7. Veronica is 11. Vivian is 15. Aisha is 10. All five girls share an increasingly common experience in Liberia: each was raped. Hawa was raped, and killed. They are five out of the 462 sexual violence cases that were reported in Liberia between January and April 2018. At least …