- Ellen Johnson Sirleaf – President of the Republic of Liberia
- Joyce Banda – President of the Republic of Malawi
- Catherine Samba-Panza – Interim President of the Central African Republic
There is progress here and there on the continent regarding women's rights . We must go much further to ensure greater gender equality in Africa. It is not just a matter of justice....When women take their rightful place at the negotiating table, in the parliament and in leadership positions across society, we can unleash Africa’s enormous potential..." UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
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Source: WorldStage
President Good luck Jonathan on Thursday restated his determination to get Nigeria out of the shackles of poverty and transform the country into a more cherished environment that thrives with meek and honey.
Source: Forward
Any woman who has spent time in Arab countries was likely to have been particularly impressed by the strong presence of women in the Egypt’s Tahrir Square protests. Whether it is Cairo or any other Arab city, walking around unaccompanied in public is not always a comfortable experience.
Source: GhanaWeb
Economic Affairs (IEA) on Saturday set in motion efforts to galvanise stakeholder support, to develop a manual on strategies and guidelines to increase the number of women elected to parliament in 2012.
Source: GhanaWeb
Bus-Kwofie, former District Chief Executive (DCE) for Ahanta West District, has underscored the need for both government and political parties to allocate a quota of portfolios to women, to whip up their interest in governance.
Source: SFGate
In 2011, Ban Ki-moon begins the fifth year of his five-year term as United Nations secretary-general, and a discussion will begin about a possible extension of his term or a possible successor for him.
Source: AllAfrica
Aggrieved female aspirants who failed to clinch the party's ticket in the last Peoples Democratic Party's primaries have been advised not to leave the party.
Source: Guardian
"We know that the African Union summit is still very masculine but we are trying to bring in the voices of women," said Gertrude Mongella, former president of the Pan-African parliament, explaining the rationale behind the shadow summit organised by the Gender is my Agenda Campaign (Gimac) in Addis Ababa on 24-26 January. A difficult proposition in a forum where, at the very highest level, there is only one female representative, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, president of Liberia.
Source: New York Times
For years, diplomats, aid workers, academics and government officials here have been vexed almost to the point of paralysis about how to attack this country’s staggering problem of sexual violence, in which hundreds of thousands of women have been raped, many quite sadistically, by the various armed groups who haunt the hills of eastern Congo.
Source: Pulse
Much has been aflutter on twitter about the very visible presence of women among the protests that have taken Egypt by storm over the last few weeks, but images of them have remained sparse amid the digital slideshows strung together by major media outlets, portraying mainly dense crowds of the manly.
Source: The Liberian Journal
Six years into her historic Presidency as the 1st democratically elected woman Head of State of an African country, the euphoria which greeted the event in 2005, is still well alive in Liberia and around the world. President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has weathered
Source: The Inquirer
President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has told her colleagues attending the African Union Summit that as they move into the 21st century it is necessary to make those "hard choices" needed to control their destiny and emancipate their people from the "shackles of domination and poverty."