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Ecobank Foundation and United Nations (UN) Women Form Historic Partnership to Promote Women's Empowerment in Africa

Ecobank Foundation and UN Women will jointly carry out a series of awareness raising, advocacy and action activities to combat violence against women and girls in several African countries

The Ecobank Foundation (https://EcobankFoundation.org)   and UN Women's Regional Office for West and Central Africa today signed a partnership agreement to strengthen their respective agendas for promoting women's empowerment in Africa. For the first time, these two key actors in the development of the continent have established a framework for cooperation…

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Jean-Pierre Bekolo’s ‘Miraculous Weapons’ scoops Ecobank Foundation Prize at Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou Film Festival (FESPACO)

“Miraculous weapons” provides an enthralling story of quest of human freedom, freedom of expression, in a spirit of absolute dignity

The Cameroonian “Miraculous weapons” produced by Jean-Pierre Bekolo was judged to be the film giving the most positive image of Africa, at the influential 2019 Festival Panafricain du Cinéma et de la Télévision de Ougadougou (FESPACO). As winner of the Ecobank Foundation’s (EcobankFoundation.org) Sembène Ousmane prize, Jean-Pierre Bekolo received XOF…