Graça Simbine Machel was the only woman in modern history to have served as First Lady of two different countries: Mozambique and South Africa. She was born on October 17, 1945, in rural Incadine, ...

The Graça Machel Trust (GMT) announced today the launch a Pan-African initiative to ‘Multiply the Faces and Amplify the Voices’ of African women as a force for economic and social transformation. The ...

It’s become something of a cliche to attribute some of the greatness of a man to the woman standing at his side. With Graça Machel that would apply twice, first as the widow of Mozambique’s ...

MILAN (AP) — Former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan and Mozambican humanitarian Graca Machel are addressing a summit on the crisis of malnutrition, which is an underlying cause for half of the child ...

Together, they explored the power of values in today's rapidly changing world, reminding us that values are not just words.

As world leaders descend on New York ahead of the U.N. General Assembly, Christiane Amanpour sits down with Nelson Mandela’s widow, Graca Machel, to remember the great lessons in leadership from her ...

Machel is a former Education Minister of Mozambique and a founding member of the Elders, a group of global leaders advocating for peace, justice and human rights The most under-resourced parts of the ...

Graca Machel sleeps in a room not far from the ailing Nelson Mandela's sickroom. She has rarely left the hospital since he was admitted last month, emerging this week to make an appearance at the ...

South Africa is still reeling from the pain of losing an icon and an anti-apartheid heroine, Winnie Mandela. The former wife of the late Nelson Mandela died on Monday March 2, at the age of 81. Graca ...

Mozambique's Graça Machel has served on the front lines of African politics and activism for three decades. She fought for her country's independence from Portugal in the 1970s, became the country's ...