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What to See at the New York African Film Festival
What to See at the African Film Festival New York
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What to See at the African Film Festival New York
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“If we look at Rwanda, for example, which is often viewed through the prism of President Kagame, 50 percent of its parliament are women. The country has made important, radical budgetary decisions both that are importance in terms of investing in women’s education but also in long term investments – over 10 years horizon,” she said. And having more women engaged, “Chancellor Merkel has also passed law for women to be included on board,” said Clinton.
These barriers and issues, said Clinton and her co-speaker, Anju Maholtra, UNICEF Principal Advisor for Gender and Development, including ending early child marriage, childbirth mortality and women inequality, should be discussed in less simulacrum ways.
They urged the international community and world leaders to add these issues to their top priority list for this year’s upcoming UN General Assembly meeting where new sustainable development goals will be discussed and set to replace the old Millennium goals that was set 15 years ago.
Continue reading By THE AFRICA BAZAAR Staff Writer April 25, 2015 The United States said it plans to give more than $16 million in new humanitarian assistance for nutrition, shelter, water and health services for South Sudanese people suffering from the ongoing…
Continue reading Minister Okonjo-Iweala, who has managed Nigeria’s finance for the last two administrations -President Goodluck Jonathan and President Olusegun Obasanjo- said now that the much anticipated presidential election is over and people have rightfully voiced their opinions through a democratic process about widespread issues affecting the country in electing a new president, the next thing that the new federal government should tackle, other than the obvious security issues surrounding Boko Haram terrorist activities in the Northern part of the country -is to put in place institutional mechanisms that will help fight corruptions and enhance transparency in the government and restructure programs and processes that are not working so the country’s economy agenda can move beyond oil to strengthen the economy.
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