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Daybreak West Africa

AFRICAN HERO – NIGERIA’S MOSHOOD ABIOLA

Chief Moshood Kashimawo Olawale MKO Abiola was a wealthy man. He was richer than a country. He was influential and powerful. Abiola controlled virtually everything in his lifetime, from business, communications, and religion to politics, international affairs, and even sports.…

FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION IN LIBERIA

Did you know that more than 200 million women and girls who are alive today have been cut? According to the World Health Organization, Female Genital Mutilation put these women and girls in danger of excessive bleeding, infection and death.…

STREET PARLIAMENT

STREET PARLIAMENT The Gambia has finally completed its election cycle which included Presidential, parliamentary and last week local government from 2021-2023. Leading opposition United Democratic Party UDP retained the only mayoral seats in the capital Banjul and Kanifing Municipality. The…

WADR’s DAYBREAK CHALLENGE

On our Daybreak Challenge, Achatoh Sonia, a high school teacher and a volunteer with the Young African Defenders in Action ( YADA)Cameroon, tells us why she is a shoe addict. She also loves travelling and speaking out for the defenceless…

DAYBREAK CHALLENGE

DAYBREAK CHALLENGE On this edition of our Daybreak Challenge, meet LYDIA WINYI KEMBABAZI, a Ugandan Lawyer based in Banjul, The Gambia. She said she is obsessed with keeping time and doesn’t have a favourite city…what city would you like her…

AFRICAN HERO CHIEF ANTHONY ENAHORO

Chief Anthony Enahoro, who has died aged 87, was one of the last survivors of the independence generation of Nigerian politicians. He was renowned as the parliamentarian who moved the first motion envisaging independence in 1953. Post-independence, he was imprisoned…