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‘Eight months pregnant, I was on the frontlines of peace’

Haunted by grim violence, the new generation of Somali grassroots women like Fatuma are leading peace process at the local level

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By UNDP Somalia
November 3rd, 2024
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Footnotes Credits: With input from Zaynab Elsawi, Robin Frost & Petrit Skenderi; photo story by Kamal Raj Sigdel. Some photos courtesy of SGRDO, Baidoa. Read more about UNDP: www.undp.org/somalia

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