{"id":11544,"date":"2018-01-08T08:58:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-08T13:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=11544"},"modified":"2025-12-14T09:24:43","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T08:24:43","slug":"can-the-women-of-africa-lead-the-continent-to-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=11544","title":{"rendered":"Can the women of Africa lead the continent to peace?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kenya.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/kenya-300x192.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"192\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11545\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Judging by the many articles below, from Angola, Sudan, Nigeria, Mali, Tanzania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Cameroon, Togo, Democratic Republic of Congo, etc. the answer would seem to be positive !<\/p>\n<p>Here are CPNN articles pertaining to this question:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=37417\">Tunis, Birth Place of the Name, \u2018Africa\u2019 hosts 6th Forum of Women, Peace and Security (WPS)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36804\">Ugandan Journalist Wins Luxembourg Peace Prize<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=36129\">Women of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire commit to the Culture of Peace: more than 5,000 women expected at the Palais des Sports on December 21<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=35451\">First Pan-African Conference on Girls\u2019 and Women\u2019s Education in Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=32954\">Female resilience in traditional African oral literature (Sociotexte journal)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=31167\">Conflict resolution and peacebuilding: The Union of Women of Cultural Communities for Peace in Mali (UFCPM) equips its members<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=31160\">ECOWAS enhances the capacity of its Regional Women, Peace And Security Steering Group<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=30798\">Angola Debates The Women\u2019s Role In Building Peace And Democracy<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=30653\">Women must play a larger role in peace building and resolving conflicts \u2013African Development Bank chief<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=30200\">Nigeria: IWD2023 Group Supports Women In Peace Building<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=30136\">UN Security Council: \u2018Radical change of direction\u2019 needed in women, peace and security agenda<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=26999\">Gabon Candidate for International Peace Ambassador<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=26121\">Conakry: former deputies launch a new coalition for peace, rights and development, COFEPAD-Guinea<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=25352\">Cameroon: Peace action: tribute to Mirabelle Lingom and Confort Tamasang<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=25343\">Fatima Al-Ansar Describes Her Vision While Launching a \u201cUrgent Appeal\u201d to All Malian Organizations Working in the Field of Conflict Resolution, Mediation and the Prevention of Violent Extremism to \u201cUnite Their Efforts\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=24542\">African Union: Interview with Special Envoy for Women Peace &#038; Security<\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=24536\">A reflection contributions by African women to peace and security agenda in the continent<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=24432\">Women from several African countries trained in the culture of peace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=24427\">Mentoring: around fifty women at the WANEP-GUINEA school<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=24423\">Nigeria: Osun, Kaduna First Ladies emerge leaders of governors\u2019 wives forum<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=24416\">African women propose a 10-year plan for gender equality in Africa at the Generation Equality Forum in Paris<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=23945\">Think African Podcast Episode 1: Planting Seeds<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=23602\">Senegal: \u201cEthnic remarks\u201d: the Platform of Women for Peace in Casamance calls for \u201cserenity\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=22728\">In Malawi, Chief Theresa Kachindamoto Fights against Child Marriage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=22601\">The Africa Young Women\u2019s Manifesto<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21684\">Africa Beijing+25 Youth Baraza: Fem-Foster, Enable, Mobilize<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21602\">Mairo Al-Makura African First Ladies Peace Mission is Serious Business<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21579\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire. Association and community leaders make their contribution to peace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21519\">Diffa, Niger: Launch of an awareness campaign to strengthen the participation of women and young people in intercommunity dialogue<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=21068\">International Alert Programme on Women, Peace and Security in Nigeria<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=19768\">Angola promotes the role of African women in government<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=15669\">Emerging Feminist Leaders Are Claiming Their Space: Follow Us to Liberia!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=14538\">UN Women\u2019s Org. hosts North Darfur peacebuilding workshop<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=14185\">Sierra Leone News: Women\u2019s Movement reinforces<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=13279\">Women in school to promote a sustainable peace in Cameroon<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=12928\">Panafrican Women\u2019s Network for Culture of Peace and Sustainable Development<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=11178\">16 Days of Activism 2017: Meet Mariama Sonko, Senegal<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=11174\">16 Days of Activism 2017: Meet Ketty Nivyabandi, Burundi<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=10899\">Agents of Peace: Hakamat Women in North Darfur Promote Peaceful Coexistence in the State<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=9524\">Kenya\u2019s pastoralists look beyond patriarchy to property rights for women<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/french\/?p=6525\">Togo: Les groupements de femmes de la region des Plateaux sensibilisees sur la cohesion sociale et la culture de la paix \u00e0 Atakpam\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=9396\">Togo: Women\u2019s groups in the Plateaux region sensitized on social cohesion and the culture of peace in Atakpam\u00e9<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=5304\">The Senegalese feminist Bineta Diop: United against war in Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/french\/?p=5294\">La f\u00e9ministe S\u00e9n\u00e9galaise Bineta Diop: Unies contre la guerre en Afrique<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=4947\">African women organize to reclaim agriculture against corporate takeover<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=2009\">African Women&#8217;s Journal: African Women in Power\/Politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=409\">Esther Abimiku Ibanga, Founder and president of The Women Without Walls Initiative to receive the Niwano Peace Prize<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 Links for the following articles published prior to 2015 do not work because they were made by a version of PERL programming that is no longer supported. With three easy steps, you can find the article by its number.  First, click on it before returning to this page. Your browser will say that the article is not available but in the address listed you can see that it was located at ViewArticle=xxxx where xxxx is the number of the article. Returning to this page, then click <a href=\"https:\/\/archives.cpnn-world.org\/\">here<\/a> for the listing of all years.  Then click on the year that contains the number for the article you seek. It will send you to the page where you can easily search for the article by its title. \u2013 \u2013 \u2013 \u2013<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1948\">Meet Carine Novi Safari, Democratic Republic of Congo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1655\">Towards the creation of a network of women for a culture of peace in Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1651\">Nobel Women wrap up delegation to eastern Congo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1566\">Samba-Panza\u2019s election represents a bright future for African women in politics<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1587\">Announcing: Women of Congo Speak Out!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1612\">International Women\u00b4s Day: Interview With Leymah Gbowee (Liberia)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1614\">Meet the Tanzanian Woman Who Said No to a Forced Marriage<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1364\">The Women of Mali Engage for Peace<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1363\">Les Femmes de Mali S&#8217;engagent pour la Paix<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=1323\">Women take ownership of Great Lakes peace efforts<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cpnn-world.org\/cgi-bin\/read\/articlepage.cgi?ViewArticle=905\">South Sudanese women take the lead in local peace building<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judging by the many articles below, from Angola, Sudan, Nigeria, Mali, Tanzania, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Burundi, Cameroon, Togo, Democratic Republic of Congo, etc. the answer would seem to be positive ! Here are CPNN articles pertaining to this question: Tunis, Birth Place of the Name, \u2018Africa\u2019 hosts 6th Forum of Women, Peace and Security (WPS) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/?p=11544\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Can the women of Africa lead the continent to peace?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-d-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11544"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37421,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11544\/revisions\/37421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.cpnn-world.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}