New research delves into youth perspectives to find better ways of ending child marriage.
Like most West African countries, despite many legal and institutional measures to protect adolescents, Togo has a very high teen pregnancy rate.
In additional to its illegal nature, early marriage results in a chain of negative consequences for girls who are its victims and represents a major barrier to the economic and social development process.
In francophone West Africa, despite judicial and institutional advances, the political participation of young women remains very limited.
Despite the transition to democracy and institutional reconstruction underway in most West African countries, many still experience high incidences of violence and crime.
Between December 2006 and May 2009, the Nairobi Peace initiative and the West Africa Network for Peacebuilding carried out a collaborative five-country project entitled, Transitional Justice and the Rise of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
This research is grounded in the phenomenon of the simultaneous existence of a legal arsenal of national and international dispositions favorable to the integration of women in economic, political and social decision-making, and weak participation
In Africa as elsewhere, the past decade has seen rapid growth in the private security industry.