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23 May 2019
Statement
Statement by UNFPA Executive Director Dr. Natalia Kanem for the
International Day to End Obstetric Fistula, 23 May 2019
Fistula is a human rights violation – end it now!
Shame, isolation and... Read more
16 May 2019
News
The Regional Director of the United Nations Population Fund for the West and Central Africa Regional Office (UNFP WCARO), Mabingue NGOM paid a working visit to Benin from 5 to 9 May 2019. During his... Read more
11 April 2019
News
The global reproductive rights movement that began in the 1960s transformed the lives of hundreds of millions of women, empowering them to govern their own bodies and shape their own futures. But... Read more
7 March 2019
News
The UNFPA Progress Report on 2018 Demographic Dividend in West and Central Africa was launched Tuesday 5th March 2019 by Ambassador of Madagascar in Dakar, His Excellency Mr. Auguste Paraina, Dean of... Read more
27 February 2019
Press Release
The West and Central Africa Regional Office of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA WCARO), in collaboration with the African Group of Ambassadors, is launching the 2018 Annual Report of its... Read more
14 December 2018
News
The Ouagadougou Partnership Coordination Unit (UCPO) organized its seventh annual meeting from December 12 to 14, 2018, in Dakar, Senegal. The civil society organizations of the nine (9) West African... Read more
9 December 2018
Press Release
The 2019 regional planning meeting of UNFPA in West and Central Africa wrapped up on Thursday, 6 December 2018 with key recommendations and pledges that would better propel the organization in 2019.... Read more
29 November 2018
Press Release
Senegalese traditional communications legend, El Hadj Mansour Mbaye, founding president of the National Network of Traditional Communicators (RENACOT) of Senegal, has been awarded with a special... Read more
23 November 2018
News
Dakar, Senegal – 22 November, 2018: A regional conference on the theme: "Partnership for Culture, Communication and the Demographic Dividend" is being co-organized by the Ministry of Culture of... Read more
7 November 2018
News
Mabingue Ngom, UNFPA Regional DIrecteor
It is a great pleasure for me to be back in Accra, after just about a month that we had an extremely successful Africa review of the Addis Ababa Declaration on... Read more