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Africa | Ethiopia | Technology

Change attitudes for future generations of women in tech, UN urges

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Celebrated every year on the fourth Thursday of April, the Day is an initiative of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and aims to encourage and empower girls and young women to consider entering the growing field of ICT,​ enabling both girls and technology companies to reap the benefits of greater female participation in the sector. This year, falling on 25 April, and with main celebrations happening in the Ethiopian capital, the day was marked across the world. The UN telecomms agency estimates that within the next 10 years, there could be as many as two mi
Africa | Ethiopia | Activism

Ivanka Trump in Ethiopia to ‘promote women’

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President Donald Trump's eldest daughter, Ivanka Trump, is in Ethiopia to promote a US government initiative aimed at advancing women's participation in the workplace. The initiative aims to benefit 50 million women in developing countries by 2025. Ms Trump toured a female-run textile facility in the capital, Addis Ababa. The US policy in Africa under President Trump has prioritised the war on terror and checking the influence of China. When his administration's long-delayed policy on Africa was finally unveiled at the close of 2018, many observers of the continent were quick to poin
Africa | Ethiopia | Medicine

Meet the young women leading the way in Ethiopia’s TB fight

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At first, Beyera Guta assumed he had a cold. Months passed and the sickness dragged on until he became so weak that he could no longer provide for his family. Tuberculosis was consuming his lungs and slowly killing him. The person who saved his life wasn’t a doctor, or a nurse. It was a 24-year-old woman from his village called Anuma Moreda, who hadn’t finished school. Alerted to Guta’s symptoms by his cousin, she examined him and sent a sputum sample to the local hospital. When the result came back positive, Moreda supervised his treatment and nursed him back to health. This is th
Africa | Ethiopia | Career

All-Female Flight Crew a First for Ethiopia Airlines

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Ethiopian Airlines is dispatching its first-ever flight operated by an all-female crew. The flight was scheduled to depart for Bangkok, Thailand, Wednesday night. The airline says it wants to promote women’s empowerment and encourage more African girls to pursue aviation careers. Ethiopian Airlines CEO Tewolde Gebremariam said attracting more women to aviation jobs is one of the reasons for hosting the female flight, together with empowering women. The flight is being handled by women in every aspect – from planning, to aircraft maintenance, and from the pilots to air traffic control
Africa | Ethiopia | Entrepreneurship

In Ethiopia, Female Entrepreneurs Get a Chance to Pursue Their Dreams

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Zinabua Hailu has a dream. She wants to build a big hotel with “stars” — one that meets international rating standards, the kind of hotel tourists might frequent. It’s not an impossible dream. Over the last eight years, the mother of three has built her business from a one-room, one-person food vendor operation into a 10-room hotel and restaurant with a staff of 18 in the bustling Gofa neighborhood of Addis Ababa. Zinabua is among more than 3,000 women in Ethiopia who have been able to tap financing since 2013 to start or expand a small business. A special line of credit for fe
Africa | Ethiopia | Culture

Ethiopian women must be empowered politically: AU

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The African Union's Long-Term Election Observation Mission on Thursday called for stepped-up efforts to empower Ethiopian women on the political level. Until July of 2014, women had accounted for around 43.7 million of Ethiopia's total population of 87.9 million, according to the state-run Ethiopian Central Statistical Agency. Nevertheless, the agency said, these women continued to live in patriarchal and poor communities. It added that more than 17.8 million of the country's 36.8 million registered voters were women. Some people say Ethiopian women are subject to violence and excl
Africa | Ethiopia | Economy

Blue economy: why women must ride the wave of Africa’s maritime sector

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The African continent has a two-pronged weapon in its race to industrialise and make use of its natural resources, according to Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, chairwoman of the 54-member African Union (AU): women and oceans. In March, while the former South African home affairs minister was attending a conference in Ethiopia on getting more women into parliament, the AU was hosting the first event specifically for women in Africa’s maritime sector in the Angolan capital, Luanda. The agenda covered how women can best make inroads into areas including shipping and maritime transport, fishing, offs
International | Malawi | Culture

If These Two Teenagers Ran The World, We’d All Jump For Joy

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Listen to Memory Banda, 18, from Malawi and 16-year old Achie (whose last name is not provided because of her age) from Ethiopia, and you'll hear an earful about a lot of things you wouldn't expect. They're talking about how tough it is to be young and female in Africa. They're discussing how child marriage and female genital mutilation are just two of the obstacles to girls getting an education. They're commiserating about the challenge of getting health care and of finding jobs that will let them lead a better life. But they're not just griping. Memory and Achie each push for change in th

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