CRUELTY and Gender Based Violence (GBV) are still issues of concern in Zanzibar as a total of 168 incidents were reported in July this year compared to 127 cases recorded in June this year.
Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Tuesday, 29 August 2023, officially launched the Women Situation Room in Liberia, aimed at promoting a peaceful electoral environment and community security here.
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Rwanda, along with other Commonwealth nations, has made a commitment to follow a comprehensive roadmap aimed at bolstering collective efforts to achieve gender equality and empower women and girls, particularly in the context of climate action.
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The number of African women migrating from the continent through the Horn of Africa to the Gulf States has doubled over the past two years, reaching over 100,000 in 2022, according to the UN.
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Prominent women under the banner, Liberian Women Peace Summit have penned a peace manifesto, calling for peaceful 2023 Elections.
In a significant move towards promoting tech inclusivity, the Kaduna state government, in collaboration with Google, has announced a pioneering initiative to train 5,000 women and girls in data science, artificial intelligence, and entrepreneurial application of digital technologies.
The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Forum for Women’s Empowerment for Peace and Security Conference, held in the southern Kenyan town of Machakos last week, declared its solidarity with the women of Sudan, expressing ‘concern and alarm’ at the escalating violence against women and girls.
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DOMBOSHAVA, Zimbabwe (AP) — Four grandmothers wearing bright yellow headscarves, T-shirts and skirts huddled around a cellphone in Zimbabwe’s rural Domboshava area. They cackled at a video showing a troop of mischievous baboons ripping up ruling party election posters with the face of the president on them.
With a swish and a click, 64-year-old Elizabeth Mutandwa posted the video on a couple of community WhatsApp groups, and followed it up with some election campaign information from the party she supports in next week’s election — the main opposition Citizens Coalition for Change.
Multiple shocks including flooding, high levels of food insecurity, conflict, and disease outbreaks continue to drive people’s humanitarian needs in South Sudan. Misinformation about the COVID-19 pandemic and the COVID-19 vaccine was also rife in communities, leading to low uptake of the vaccines when the Government of South Sudan rolled out the public vaccination campaign.
Monrovia – Liberian women have successfully concluded a peace summit for 2023 organized by the Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa, in collaboration with the Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Presidential Center for Women and Development, partnering with MADRE and the African Women Development Fund (AWDF).
South Africa recorded 207 child marriages in 2021, with 188 kids taken as brides.
Over the years it has been proved that when you empower a woman who is already doing something, say a small business, to do it even better, the results can be immensely transformative.
Following the low representation of women in President Bola Tinubu's ministerial list, gender experts have highlighted reasons Nigerian women remain marginalized in governance.
Gender advocates and women groups have faulted President Bola Tinubu's cabinet list following his failure to achieve 35 percent affirmative action.
“I can't allow my wife to do this work.”
Every year on July 31, the Pan African Women's Day is celebrated by the African Union. It is the anniversary of the foundation of the Pan-African Women's Organization in Tanzania in 1962, one year before the Organisation of African Unity, which is now referred to as the Africa Union was launched.
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Signed 20 years ago, in the Mozambique city that bears its name, the Maputo protocol was a landmark treaty in the progress towards gender equality across Africa.
The Togolese authorities must urgently strengthen access to maternal healthcare in the country and reduce infant and neonatal mortality, Amnesty International said today to mark African Women’s Day.
Promoting gender equality in Uganda's labor market requires addressing the unequal allocation of unpaid care work between men and women, according to activists.
Violence, vote buying, and outright bulldozing in politics have been cited as major factors contributing to the low turnout of women in this year’s election after the country recorded a 3.4% drop in female candidates.