“If we had water, my daughter wouldn’t have died” is a sentence no parent should have to say. Gosa Kpanyi, who is from Nigeria, is one of many parents who lost his child due to water scarcity. Kpanyi said in…
Category: Africa
Women leaders gathered in Rabat: IFLRY’s Female Leadership Program in action
Berlin, Germany. – At the beginning of the month, from the 03rd to the 06th of November, the International Federation of Liberal Youth – IFLRY had its seminar “Coming together as Female Leaders,” a training for female leaders from Africa…
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Liberal September: How Did Liberals Do in this Month’s Elections?
September saw many interesting elections around the world. In many places our liberal brethren made substantial gains or at least managed to shield themselves from losing seats. I’ll go through some of the global elections and give a fairly overall…
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Partnerships Models — Addressing Vaccine Inequities in Africa
Vaccine inequity has a fundamental impact on global health security across the world and can be traced back to issues related to intellectual property, infrastructure, skills shortage, production, and supply chains. The issues of vaccine inequity will have a long-term…
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We still Lack enough Voices that Speak against Gender-Based Violence in South Africa
My solidity is renewed by a thousand voices of women who stand against patriarchy, by women who come together with one voice and collectively denounce patriarchal power structures that dominate their societies. South Africa is one of the countries in…
Africa, Continent, Democracy, Human Rights, Interviews, Interviews with liberal and democratic youth organisations, Series, Topics
Interview with Emmanuel Nsobila from Progressive Youth Movement
Find our other interviews with liberal and democratic youth organisations here. How long have you been active in politics in general, and in Progressive Youth Movement (PYM) specifically? I started my politics as a student back at the University in…
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Moyisi’s Blog: #2 Identity, HERITAGE, Diversity
Each year around this time, South Africans across the country gather for events, school calendars accommodate cultural civies day and use this time as time for fundraising and cultural fashion parades. But is this all that is Heritage Day? Do…
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Moyisi’s Blog: #1 My First Blog Post
Do you like taking risks? This is my first blog post and I took the risk to write to you. What if I told you that writing your first blog was easy? But it is the complete opposite. As a…
South Africa’s misguided COVID-19 pandemic response, as it charts fifth highest cases in the world….
South Africa, a country well-known for its transformative Constitution that contains the ‘Bill of Rights’, which protects the rights of the people inside the country and succinctly defines the role and limited powers of public institutions and office-bearers is now…
What our Colonial Past Teaches us about Privilege
This article is probably one of the most challenging ones I have ever written. The killing of George Floyd at the end of May made me speechless. Seeing pictures of a man, desperately begging for help, fighting for his life,…
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