Tendai Marima

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Tendai Marima is an independent journalist and researcher based in southern Africa. Follow her on Twitter @i_amten.

WMC Women Under Siege
October 23, 2017 | Tendai Marima | Gender-based violence, International, Violence against women
Renewed hope for Rwanda’s aging genocide widows

Unlike many other post-conflict African nations, Rwanda is working to support women widowed by the country’s 1994 genocide. With the establishment of care homes and other initiatives, the country’s elderly widows can finally find peace.

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