Improving Sahel Women’s Opportunities, Health Could Boost Region’s Development, U.N. Special Envoy Says

Reuters: Improving women’s lives would boost Sahel’s development: U.N. envoy
“Improving access to education, health care, and jobs for women in the arid Sahel region of Africa could play an important part in rolling back poverty in one of the world’s most underdeveloped areas, [Hiroute Guebre Sallassie, the U.N. secretary general’s special envoy to the Sahel,] said…” (Brice, 6/10).

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