The Kogi State Adolescent Girls Initiative for Learning and Empowerment (AGILE) has begun training school principals and Gender-Based Violence focal persons across the state's three senatorial districts, according to Leadership (NG). The initiative aims to prevent sexual exploitation, abuse and harassment in schools. The training forms part of broader measures by the programme to curb gender-based violence and create safer learning environments for adolescent girls across Kogi State, Nigeria.

Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma has urged women to leave abusive marriages rather than endure domestic violence, saying gender-based violence must not be tolerated. According to The Citizen, she implored women to prioritise their survival over societal expectations and the pressure to remain in harmful relationships. Her remarks add to ongoing calls in South Africa for stronger action against GBV, which remains a pervasive national crisis affecting thousands of women and children each year.

The United Nations reports that sexual violence is increasingly being used as a 'weapon of war' in Sudan, with the scale and brutality of these attacks being unprecedented. The attacks are reportedly aimed at terrorizing communities, highlighting a severe humanitarian crisis in the region.

Health workers in Uganda are advocating for expanded age-appropriate sexuality education for girls to help reduce the incidence of unsafe abortions. During a Media Café organized by the Health Journalists Network Uganda (HEJNU), Joyce Najjemba, a nursing officer at Mulago Specialised Women and Neonatal Hospital, emphasized the importance of this education in addressing the high number of unsafe abortions reported in the country.

According to organisers, a school in Busia has been named among the global finalists for the 2026 education prize. The school serves children from a vulnerable fishing community that faces challenges such as poverty, recurrent flooding, high HIV prevalence, orphanhood, early marriages, and entrenched beliefs that hinder educational aspirations for young people.

Gynaecologists have called on West African governments to invest in family planning, arguing that high fertility rates and rapid population growth are contributing to insecurity and extremism across the region. According to the report by Punch, the specialists believe that better access to family planning services could help address the underlying pressures fuelling instability, and they urged authorities to prioritise funding for such programmes as part of broader efforts to tackle regional security challenges.