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The push African women need to escape poverty
Oped, Rudo Kayombo, Published on 12/03/2024
» What do poverty, climate change, and conflict have in common? They are among the biggest challenges confronting Africa, and they all disproportionately affect women living in poverty or on the margins of society.
Privatise lotto
Oped, Postbag, Published on 22/07/2022
» Re: "Vendors picket over cut quotas", (BP, July 19).
Kofi Annan's lessons in global leadership
Oped, Nane Annan, Mark Malloch-Brown, Comfort Ero, Susana Malcorra and Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein, Published on 09/06/2022
» The world is facing a set of acute crises without recent parallel: a war in Europe that could escalate into a nuclear conflict, skyrocketing food prices that are hitting the poor the hardest, the Covid-19 pandemic and the climate emergency. We need principled statesmen and women to forge bold, morally consistent responses to these and other global problems. Sadly, such leaders are in short supply.
How women can break the bias
Oped, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and Lilian Best, Published on 06/05/2022
» Since 1911, societies around the world have dedicated days, months, and even decades (in Africa's case) to celebrating women's achievements and promoting solutions to new and persistent challenges. But over the past two years, the Covid-19 pandemic has expanded the plight of women to outsize proportions, sharply highlighting the urgency of this year's International Women's Day theme: "Break the Bias."