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#BirthdayWishes Happy Birthday Her Excellency Mrs. Auxillia Mnangagwa, First Lady of Zimbabwe. — Joyeux anniversaire à Son Excellence Mme Auxillia Mnangagwa, Première Dame du Zimbabwe 🇿🇼 .

From 2025 achievements to bold 2026 ambitions — OAFLAD and its partners are #BuildingResilience for women and girls' health across Africa. Why this matters: ⚠️ 712 women and girls die every day from pregnancy complications in regions hit by conflict and climate events ⚠️ 56% of public health emergencies in Africa over the past two decades were climate-related ⚠️ Malaria claimed nearly 600,000 lives in 2023 — 94% of cases were in Africa Climate change is a health crisis. 💪 African First Ladies are stepping up! #BuildingResilience #HealthForHer #OAFLAD

📢 OAFLAD announced "Together for Her" — a new multi-stakeholder network to tackle women's cancers across Africa was adopted by 30th OAFLAD General Assembly that has following three pillars : 🔹 Policy advocacy 🔹 Data & innovation 🔹 Equitable access to care @WHO, @Roche @UNFPA, @gavi , @AbbottNews, @UNAIDS @SabinVaccine, & the @_AfricanUnion expressed interest to join the network and support African First Ladies working on women cancer #TogetherForHer #BuildingResilience #OAFLAD #cancer

🔴#NowHappening: OAFLAD’s Health Working Group meeting is underway with member states, partners and co-chairs Botswana 🇧🇼 , @WHOatAUECA , and @EGPAF. Discussions focus on 2025 highlights and priorities for 2026. #Thread ⬇️ @AgnesMidi @UNAIDS @UNFPA_AARO @AUC31 @_AfricanUnion @NEPAD_Agency @Roche @Mommys2Mommys

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🔴 712 women die every day during pregnancy or childbirth — one every 2 minutes. In conflict & fragile settings, the risk is more than double. (Source: @UNFPA, trends in maternal mortality 2000-2023) This is not inevitable. It is an emergency. We are taking a stand with our #BuildingResilience campaign. 🎥: youtu.be/ExHO2Xq-b38?si… #MaternalHealth #AfricanWomen

RT @NEPAD_Agency: ACSAR-The Magic Bullet for Africa’s Future: Leadership in Action at CSW70 The room in New York was charged with purpose…

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#BrandVoice Building Africa’s Future Together: A Renewed Leadership and Strategic Direction At a critical juncture for Africa’s development trajectory, the Organization of African First Ladies for Development (OAFLAD) enters a renewed phase of leadership and institutional

The Dignity of the Girl Child Remains Non-Negotiable.

Today, Ambassador Mussie Hailu, @uriglobal URI Regional Director for Africa and Representative to the African Union, ECA, UNEP, and IGAD, visited the OAFLAD Secretariat. The meeting provided an opportunity to explore potential areas of collaboration between URI and OAFLAD, particularly around shared priorities including climate action, gender equality, and peacebuilding. It is worth recalling that OAFLAD was honored with the Africa Peace Award by URI Africa in 2017, recognizing the organization’s leadership and commitment to advancing peace and development across the continent (🔗 : uri.org/uri-story/2017…) #OAFLAD #Partnerships #BuildingResilience

Joyeux anniversaire à Son Excellence Mme Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi, Première Dame de lá Republique Démocratique du Congo — #BirthdayWishes Happy Birthday Her Excellency Mrs. Denise Nyakeru Tshisekedi, First Lady of the Democratic Republic of the Congo @DeniseNyakeru

Honoring the trailblazers who paved the way, the game changers who shook things up, and the everyday heroes who show up with courage and kindness every single day. Your strength, resilience, and compassion inspire us all. Happy Women's Day to the women who make a difference in our lives and in the world. FMB.

🌸On this International Women’s Day 2026 #IWD26, under the global theme “Rights. Justice. Action. For All Women and Girls,” we reaffirm a fundamental truth: the rights of women and girls, their access to justice, and their ability to take action are essential foundations for inclusive and sustainable societies. At #OAFLAD, African First Ladies are leading the way by placing the well-being, dignity, and empowerment of women and girls at the heart of their actions. Through the #BuildingResilience campaign, they are championing a shared commitment to address the growing challenges affecting women and girls across the continent — including climate change, conflict, health inequalities, and barriers to education and economic opportunity. Moving beyond declarations, African First Ladies are championing concrete solutions that place women and girls at the center of Africa’s resilience and development🌍. Today, we reaffirm our collective commitment to ensure that women and girls are not only protected, but empowered as leaders, innovators, and agents of change. This means advancing: • Equal rights and justice for all women and girls • Access to health, education, and economic opportunities • Women’s leadership in climate resilience and peacebuilding • Safe and inclusive societies where every woman and girl can thrive Because when women and girls rise, communities grow stronger, economies become more resilient, and societies move closer to justice and equality. 🤝Together, let us move from rights to justice — and from justice to action ✊ #InternationalWomensDay #RightsJusticeAction

Today, on International Women’s Day 2026, I join millions of Nigerians and the global community in celebrating the strength, courage, tenacity, and achievements of women and girls across Nigeria and around the world. This year’s theme, “Rights. Justice. Action. For ALL Women and Girls,” reminds us that empowering women is not an act of charity; it is an investment in our collective future. When we give women access to education, healthcare, economic empowerment, leadership platforms, justice and equity, we gain stronger families, more prosperous communities, and a more inclusive nation. When women rise, Nigeria rises! Happy International Women’s Day! ꜱᴇɴᴀᴛᴏʀ ᴏʟᴜʀᴇᴍɪ ᴛɪɴᴜʙᴜ, ᴄᴏɴ ꜰɪʀꜱᴛ ʟᴀᴅʏ ᴏꜰ ᴛʜᴇ ꜰᴇᴅᴇʀᴀʟ ʀᴇᴘᴜʙʟɪᴄ ᴏꜰ ɴɪɢᴇʀɪᴀ

To the women who lead, build, heal, negotiate peace, and inspire change every day, we celebrate you. Happy International Women’s Day! #IWD2026 #RightsJusticeAction #forallwomenandgirls

Honouring the women who build, organise, uplift, and hold our communities together every day. Your work shapes the world in ways that often go unseen. Happy International Women’s Day! #IWD2026

International Women’s Day 2026