SHAMVA, Zimbabwe (AP) — Inside a white tent with a wooden fireplace in the middle, about two dozen African girls slipped off their shoes, sat on mattresses and prepared to pour their hearts out. They ...

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - It's a scandal that any family in a continent as rich as Africa, with its vast oil and mineral wealth, should be so poor they feel forced to sell their daughter, ...

ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia, Feb 19 2026 (IPS) - Africa is home to approximately 160 million adolescent girls aged 10 to 19 (according to 2022 data by the United Nations Population Division). They embody ...

The president of the African Development Bank (https://www.AfDB.org), Akinwumi Adesina joined continental leaders in Niger for an African Union summit which saw the official launch of the African ...

At the summit Omotola Jalade-Ekeinde spoke about how movies and the media can help to stop child marriages in Africa. The historic event took place on November 27, 2015. At the summit Omotola spoke ...

Inside a white tent, warmed by a wooden fireplace, approximately two dozen young African girls in rural northeastern Zimbabwe shed their shoes and settled onto mattresses, ready to share their ...