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Christabel Ligami is a freelance Kenyan journalist based in Nairobi. She focuses on gender, human rights, science, health, development, environment, climate change, culture, regional integration issues and business in Africa. Follow her on twitter: @ChristabelLigam.
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The fund will focus on women-led companies, helping them access money that banks are unwilling to lend them. And by increasing women’s participation in the business world, the hope is to raise women’s decision-making powers across all sectors.
Reports of abuse prompted Kenya to stop recruitment agencies from sending its citizens to work as domestic workers in the Middle East. Now it’s lifting the ban, and introducing new rules it says will ensure Kenyans don’t suffer at the hands of foreign employers.
At a land policy conference last week, African governments adopted a resolution to grant documented land rights to at least 30 percent of their female populations by 2025. But to do that they must navigate a complicated mix of local laws and long-held customs.
Solar power and clean-burning stoves are saving lives and changing fortunes in the Maasai lands between Kenya and Tanzania. And the clean energy revolution is being led by women.
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