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INTERNATIONAL DAY OF THE GIRL CHILD
My Sierra Leonean women are very strong and resilient. I call them “Women of substance”. As a republic, we have gone through a lot, but our women have always stood strong. As a human resource, women are under-utilised in Sierra Leone. Women can contribute so much more . To this end, we have to develop our girl child now and education is key.

Building women that will be better suited to help in the development of a great Sierra Leone means giving better quality education to the girl child. There are various factors, truncating their development. From child marriage to high teenage -pregnancy and it’s associated social ills.

Educating the girl child makes them better suited to contribute more as adults. Education is one of the most important means of empowering women with the knowledge, skills and self-confidence necessary to participate fully in the development process.

Building Sierra Leone requires everyone working at optimum. My Office will fight against factors that will sabotage our girl child from having quality education.

“This year alone, 12 million girls under 18 will be married, and 21 million girls aged 15 to 19 years will become pregnant in developing regions."
- UN Women (2018)

We refuse to shy away from the existing social issues, we are dealing with these issues head-on. Teenage pregnancy must be reduced, and child marriage eliminated. We have to raise the standard and expectations required from our girl child. It is also important we take care of teenage mothers to make sure they are not “lost” in the system.

As we celebrate the International Day of the girl child, our girls should be assured, they will be well equipped , to take their rightful position, as they build a great Sierra Leone.

H. E. Fatima Maada Bio
First Lady of the Republic of Sierra Leone.

Strategic Communications Division
Office of The First Lady
[email protected]
+232 303 68273
https://firstlady.gov.sl

It’s time to address the historical injustice of the U.N. Security Council – Writes President Julius Maada Bio for The Washington Post

As world leaders have been gathering in New York for the annual U.N. General Assembly, the memory of the late Kofi Annan looms large in our minds. Despite Annan’s achievement in breaking the glass ceiling for black Africans and becoming the first black African to become the secretary general of the United Nations, more than a billion of us in sub-Saharan Africa are still struggling to get our voices heard internationally.

The United Nations was designed for a different world, born as it was in the aftermath of World War II when colonial empires still dominated much of the globe. Sadly, although the world has moved on, the United Nations’ governance has not. It is time that changed.

African nations have frequently been treated as problems to be solved rather than as global partners, with some seemingly viewing us only through a prism of war, poverty and famine. That view is as outdated as it is misconceived. While few would deny the malaise that gripped much of the continent through the 1970s to the 1990s, Africa was never the simplistic caricature so often portrayed. In any case, today Africa is changing beyond recognition; the past decade and a half has seen democracy and economic progress spread across the continent, and it seems that the world has started to notice.

Six of the 10 fastest-growing economies in the world are in Africa. Between 2001 and 2017, sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP per capita tripled from $496 to $1,554. Africa’s middle class doubled in size from about 150 million people in 1990 to nearly 350 million in 2010. Of course, Africa’s progress has been uneven, and we still have more than our fair share of problems, just as you would expect of a diverse and dynamic continent of 54 countries. Indeed, my own country of Sierra Leone has struggled to recover from war and was then hit by Ebola, but we refuse to be governed by the ghosts of our past.

Whether it is entrenching democracy in Gambia, or rebuilding creaking infrastructure in Kenya, a new generation of African leaders is helping to transform the lives of ordinary people. I can attest to the impact these changes are making as a newly elected president fulfilling my own promise to introduce free education in Sierra Leone, a country with an adult literacy rate at less than 50 per cent.

Despite the ever-quickening pace of domestic change, Africa’s voice remains muffled on the world stage where we are still treated more as dependents than as equals. However, a newly confident Africa is increasingly speaking for itself, both at home and abroad, and the United Nations must recognize this if it is to reflect the true face of the world it seeks to serve. As Africans, we are not only setting our own house in order, we are also now demanding that the global community finally treats us as equal partners. It has been more than a decade since we first came together to demand a permanent seat on an expanded Security Council. Yet these calls have so far been ignored, while our colleagues from the Global North have retained four of the five veto-wielding seats. As I mentioned in my speech last week to the U.N. General Assembly, Africa is the only region that does not have adequate representation on the council, despite the fact that many of the decisions made at the U.N. Security Council ultimately affect more than 1.2 billion Africans. This is a long-standing injustice.

As coordinator of the African Union’s C-10, the committee leading our reform campaign, I can speak on behalf of all African governments in saying we can no longer accept being excluded from the inner sanctum of global diplomacy. As I reiterated to the U.N. General Assembly last week, our demand is for two permanent seats with the same rights as the current members, including the right to veto. We also request the addition of two additional non-permanent seats. Correcting this imbalance will give Africans a proper say in decisions that affect the African continent.

From the Blue Helmets to UNICEF, the United Nations can be an enormous power for good. Its genius has been its universality, with virtually every nation in the world accepting its rules-based order. But its credibility is now in danger of being undermined. It is no coincidence that new institutions such as the New Development Bank are emerging alongside the traditional global bodies. These should complement the postwar settlement, but unless the United Nations starts to better reflect its own full membership, these new institutions could end up replacing it. It would be a tragedy if global governance collapsed to competing regional blocs because the Global North failed to listen to the voice of the at least three-quarters of the world that live outside it.

In two years, when the United Nations will celebrate its 75th anniversary, let us all hope the occasion marks the start of the organization’s rebirth and not its demise. And Africa’s demand for two permanent seats and two additional non-permanent seats must be part of that rebirth. It is time for Africa to take a leading role in world affairs.