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Women: Africa’s ignored combatants
- Source: Africa Renewal, Volume 19, Issue 3, Oct 2005, p. 17 - 20
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- 31 Oct 2005
Abstract
In many disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) initiatives around the world, “women combatants are often invisible and their needs are overlooked,” UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has observed. While the participation of women in combat has been minimal in some of Africa’s recent conflicts, in others, as in Sierra Leone, Liberia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, women have taken part in significant numbers.
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