I still see the knife, and the lady who held me down,” said Hawa’a Mohamed Kamil, a peer educator in Djibouti, who was ...

Some 230 million girls in more than 90 countries – predominantly in Africa and Asia – have undergone female genital ...

Female genital mutilation is internationally recognized as a human rights violation, and involves altering or injuring the ...

To win the development race, investing in women and girls’ empowerment is critical to transform economies and improve people’s lives, making sure that half the population has access to equal ...

IFC, the private sector arm of the World Bank Group, has announced two agreements to support sustainable private sector ...

COMMON WISDOM #6: Women provide the bulk of labor input in African agriculture, regularly quoted to be 60 to 80%. Two messages emerge. First, the findings question prevailing assertions that ...

Djibouti’s foreign minister, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, has criticised African leaders for failing to take decisive action to resolve the continent’s conflicts, particularly those in Sudan and the ...