- 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: IPS
It would be too simplistic to think that Malawi’s problems have ended with the death of President Bingu wa Mutharika. But it is an opportunity for newly appointed President Joyce Banda, who is also leader of the opposition People’s Party, to step up and offer a new and more responsive style of leadership.
Source: Open Democracy
“We are not women, we are Egyptians”. That is what a young woman in Tahrir Square said to me on 25 January 2012, celebrating a year of the Revolution, when I enquired about the group of women she was with.
Source: Open Demcracy
On the face of it, Libya’s was a very male revolution. Covering the armed rebellion in the east of the country, I came across thousands of young men firing their Kalashnikovs into the air and talking excitedly about the overthrow of Colonel Gaddafi. Their sisters, they told me, were at home. The National Transitional Council, the political body which formed itself in March 2011 to represent the rebels internationally, was composed almost entirely of men. Yet, when I returned to Libya last September to research my book Sandstorm; Libya in the Time of Revolution ↑after the fall of Colonel Gaddafi, I learnt that behind the scenes, women had been playing a crucial and largely unreported role.
Source: Sudan Tribune
Sudan's opposition leader, Hassan Al-Turabi, on Friday said he wishes a female candidate would succeed him at the helm of the Popular Congress Party (PCP).
Source: Times Colonist
Prominent women's rights campaigner Joyce Banda was sworn in as Malawi's president Saturday, becoming southern Africa's first female head of state and raising hopes for a fresh start in the small, poor nation after the death of her mercurial predecessor.
Source: Leadership
Column - Leadership is about capacity - the capacity of leaders to listen and observe, to use their expertise as a starting point to encourage dialogue between all levels of decision-making, to establish processes and transparency in decision-making, to articulate their own values and visions clearly but not impose them. Leadership is about setting and not just reacting to agendas, identifying problems, and initiating change that makes for substantial improvement rather than managing change.
Source: ZimEve
The first female president in Malawi is set to take over the reigns of power following the sudden death of the country's president, Bingu Wa Mutharika, aged 78.
Source: ANGOP
The chairperson of the Women Parliamentarians Group, Rodeth Teresa Makina Gil, said Thursday in Luanda that the Women's International Democratic Federation (WIDF) has given women the opportunity to rise in various sectors of the professional and public activity.
Sourece: ANGOP
The experience of the Angolan women in politics must be utilised by other countries as they have made relevant progresses in terms of equality of rights in comparison with men.
Souce: Angola Press
Luanda - A delegation of the Organization of Angolan Women (OMA), headed by its secretary general, Luzia Ingles "Inga", travelled Thursday to Brazil, where they will participate in the XV Congress of the Women International Democratic Federation (WIDF), running from 06 to 12 April in the city of Brasilia.
Monitors of the convoluted, drawn-out Zimbabwean crisis will be forgiven for thinking that little has changed, despite the fact that the South African-brokered Global Political Agreement (GPA) signed in September 2008 and initiated in February 2009 remains in place.