GLOBAL WOMAN OF THE YEAR

“Had my son been alive, I would have not lived a miserable life like this. Perhaps, I would have been taken abroad for treatment,” these are the words of an approximately 80-year-old woman Aisha Baraka, who has spent most of her time in the last fifteen years lying in a traditional rope-crafted bed, famously known as Teremka Tukaze in Kiswahili.

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A 100-year-old Kenyan woman - jailed after failing to pay a $1,000 fine - is freed from prison following a national campaign.

If the government is to seriously address child abuse in the country, then it must first speed up cases already in court facing perpetrators of the acts.

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Tanzanian 'Woman of the Year Africa' award winner tells it all
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Born and grown in Tanzania land, Irene Kiwia has made a significant difference in the lives of women in Tanzania and eventually won the 'Woman of the Year Africa' award. Kiwia is among 11 Africans who got awards from Africa Reconnect a platform for ...
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>A 56-year-old woman, Minza Noni, a resident of Isiyu Village in Bariadi District, is nursing severe injuries after unidentified people chopped off her left breast and fled with it, police said yesterday.