Inner circles | Africa, Congo, Namibia, Nigeria
Antoinette Sassou Nguesso plays queenmaker for African first ladies
The Organisation of African First Ladies, originally launched to fight AIDS, planned in 2019 to add development to its remit. But Covid-19 put a stop to that project. Its new president, the Namibian first lady Monica Geingos, is now hoping to find new impetus, as another organisation led by Nigeria's Aisha Buhari is trying to compete with it.