July 2012
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South African named first woman to chair AU
Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, 63, defeats incumbent Jean Ping of Gabon to win top post of 54-nation African Union Commission.
South African diplomat and doctor Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has been elected to become the first female head of the African Union Commission, ending a leadership battle that had threatened to divide the organisation.
Dlamini-Zuma, South Africa’s home affairs minister and...
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Sierra Leonean minister becomes UN envoy on sexual... →
New York, US - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Ms. Zainab Hawa Bangura, currently the Minister of Health and Sanitation in Sierra Leone, as his new Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict.
She will replace Margot Wallstrom, a Swedish politician with a long history of defending women’s rights, who had served in the position since it was created two years ago.
A UN...
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Meet 21 year old Chibundu Onuzo, the UK’s No.1... →
dynamicafrica:
Since 2010, Chibundu Onuzo has captured the world’s consciousness for accomplishing feat after feat. At only age 19, while still an undergraduate student at King’s College London, she made headlines globally by signing a two novel deal with U.K. publishing heavy weight, Faber & Faber which has published books by 12 Nobel Laureates and 6 Man Booker prizewinners. By clinching...
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afrikanwomen.tumblr.com new links
African women blog on facebook and twitter, I am pleased to join the team of waliafrica, an online magazine for african women.
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