This is what leadership looks like: Meet Fanta Diamande, a local peace mediator in Côte d Ivoire Fanta Diamande, a 32-year-old community leader from northern Côte d Ivoire, has been involved in the UN Women-supported Network of Women Peace Mediators since its beginning. Today, she is President of its Touba branch and a trainer for early warning monitors, who will flag election-related risks ahead of the parliamentary elections on 6 March. Date: Wednesday, March 10, 2021
Fanta Diamande is a member of the Network of Women Peace Mediators in Côte d Ivoire. Photo: UN Women/Irad Gbazale
“I became interested in becoming more active in my community after the political crisis of 2011. … I could see how violence and conflict affected women much more than men,” says Diamande.