Divine Chocolate fairtrade commitment empowers women entrepreneurs

Women of Ghana working to produce chocolate from cocoa pods

Astrid Zweynert – WNN MDG Stories Women farm workers on the cocoa bean production line, in one of 1,300 Kuapa Kokoo farmer coops based in Ghana, work to reach the final product for fairtrade chocolate that originates from raw cocoa pods. Many of the policies for chocolate company Divine Chocolate offer wide opportunities for women. Image: [...]

NIGER, AFRICA: Islamic leaders play key role in curbing population

woman with salt covering her hands in the oasis of Fachi, Tenerè desert, Niger

Emma Batha - WNN MDG Stories (WNN/Trustlaw) Naimey, Niger, AFRICA: Religious leaders in Niger have a key role to play in curbing its soaring population growth – a subject which until recently was taboo there, the European Union’s top aid official has said following a trip to the country where hunger is looming for millions. When [...]

Rural women Cameroon work with environment for sustainable farming

Cameroon slash and burn technique to clear land

Wendi Bernadette Losha (as told to Leocadia Bongben) – WNN MDG Stories (WNN) CAMEROON: As a coordinator with ACTWID-Kongadzem (a non-governmental, non-denominational and non-profit-making organisation) I am going to COP17 (the ‘Conference of Parties’) in Durban to represent rural Cameroonian women’s views on climate change and what we need to change to farm sustainably. Agriculture as [...]

Congo rape survivors need more than tears and talk

Women rape victims at Panzi hospital Congo 2007

Emma Batha – WNN MDG Stories (WNN) LONDON: The first rape victim who doctor Denis Mukwege treated in his hospital in eastern Congo had been so badly mutilated he thought it was a one-off attack by “some nutter”. But she was soon followed by many others who had been subjected to equally unimaginable cruelty. Some [...]

Is the poverty gap in Africa actually narrowing?

Woman at computer in Tanzania

Charles Kenney and Andy Sumner – WNN MDG Stories (WNN) Global: Remember the poverty trap? Countries stuck in destitution because of weak institutions put in place by colonial overlords, or because of climates that foster disease, or geographies that limit access to global markets, or simply by the fact that poverty is overwhelmingly self-perpetuating. Apparently [...]

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