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Menstrual Hygiene Day: Putting an end to period poverty

Fatoumatta Fatty’s commute on an old, malfunctioning wheelchair takes up to two hours during rainy season in The Gambia, but she is happy joining her co-workers at a sanitary pad production centre, where she takes pride in making products that help...

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Trafficking in the Sahel: Killer cough syrup and fake medicine

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Counterfeit drugs at a market in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso.

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Unprecedented joint call to shield children on the move from violence

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Displaced Sudanese children at a temporary shelter..

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Guterres: ‘We can turn the tide’ towards ending colonialism

New ideas must open fresh pathways towards finally ending the era of colonialism and to help advance sustainable development in the world’s 17 remaining colonies, the UN chief said in a video message to the Organization’s decolonization seminar in...

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