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The Mouta'alleq Centre, a state-of-the-art facility dedicated to training and empowering young former militias was opened in Janzur yesterday. Implementors,

Education briefs from around the region.

Succour came the way of Nigerian women as FG has reiterated its resolve towards alleviating the sufferings of women living with the abnormal

The Federal Government has reiterated its resolve to check the increase in incidents of vesicovaginal fistula among Nigerian women and proffer ways to

Colombia’s 2016 peace deal was a landmark achievement, convincing the FARC guerrillas to disarm and enter civilian life. Yet much remains to be done to show insurgents that they can redress their grievances through ordinary politics. The country’s leaders should recommit to finishing the job.

Are you good at coming up with names? A mural in New Kensington needs one. Westmoreland Community Action is taking suggestions for a name for the community mural at Ninth Street and Fourth Avenue. It’s on the side of the building housing Ashley’s Kitchen, across from Central City Plaza. The

Creating new beginnings for ex-combatants in Rwanda Format Nearly 300 former child combatants have received formal education, vocational training, or apprenticeship training In the aftermath of Rwanda’s genocide, the new government established measures to address the impact of war and move toward national reconciliation. The 1994 genocide took the lives of nearly one million people and left the country devastated. Many from the former government army and militia fled to what is today the Demo...

New contribution from Japan supports UNDP’s Programme on Community-based Reconciliation and Reintegration in Iraq during COVID-19 [EN/AR/KU] Format Baghdad, Iraq, 09 April 2021 – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Iraq has welcomed a US$8.2 million (JPY 883,636,344) contribution from the Government of Japan to support community-based reconciliation and reintegration in Iraq with a focus on families perceived as affiliated with ISIL in Anbar, Ninewa and Salah al-Din governorates...

“I lived in fear that I might be abducted again.” Format In 2014 Yagana Mustapha was abducted by an armed group. Just 17 years old, she was forced to marry one of her abductors and gave birth to two children. “I went through a lot of stress and suffering,” she says. “We were fed rotten food, sometimes going days without any meals.” Yagana endured five years in captivity in northern Nigeria before she summoned the courage to escape, taking her children with her. But she found that al...