Source: AfricaFeeds
In a bid to keep its pregnant women fit and healthy, Rwanda has launched its first-ever public exercises for pregnant women.
Source: Equality Now
In October 2019 the Tanzania Court of Appeal upheld the landmark 2016 ruling by the High Court against child marriage.
“We’re very happy with the judgement from the Court of Appeal which has retained the High Court’s 2016 decision that increased the minimum age of marriage to 18.
Source: The Guardian
A lesbian activist in a rural town has developed a new strategy to reach those most at risk of HIV.
Source: Reuters
The 17-year-old South Sudanese refugee finally managed to escape after three months as a prisoner in a Cairo apartment where she was repeatedly gang raped, only to realize that she had become pregnant by one of her attackers.
Source: Voice of America
By: Naba Mohiedeen
Sudan's ruling council has appointed the country's first woman chief justice. The appointment is seen as another step forward for female representation in the new transitional government.
Source: The Art Newspaper
The growing sucess of female African artists marks an exciting shift in the market.
Source: The South African
Between Meghan Cremer, Uyinene Mrwetyana, and Government “calling on women to speak out and not allow themselves to become victims,” women all over the country are scared and angry.
This is no country for women, if the news is anything to go by. We shouldn’t have to rely on apps to keep us safe in our homes or when we go to the post office, but here we are.
Source: BBC Africa
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About 450 million people worldwide currently suffer from a mental health condition, making it one of the leading causes of ill health. Could it be that others within their community hold the key to help solve this problem?
Source: Guardian
Brain Squad, a group of five Nigerian girls, has invented an app that helps less privileged children go to school.
Source: theguardian
By Jack Losh
By creating vibrant economic networks, women in the Central African Republic are coming to terms with the violence they have suffered during their country’s civil warThe bakers of Bamingui have lost loved ones to war. Rebel soldiers drive past their roadside bread ovens daily. A spectre of violence remains. Regardless, Yvette Abaka and her female baking collective make dough and roll with it.
Source: Africa News
By: DIBIE IKE Michael
French President Emmanuel Macron and G7 leaders on Sunday approved a package of $251 million in support of the African Development Bank’s AFAWA initiative to support women entrepreneurs in Africa.
Source: Africa Renewal
For many people, climate change is about shrinking glaciers, rising sea levels, longer and more intense heatwaves, and other extreme and unpredictable weather patterns. But for women pastoralists—livestock farmers in the semi-arid lands of Kenya—climate change has forced drastic changes to everyday life, including long and sometimes treacherous journeys to get water.
Source: independent
By: Umit Bektas
After six years abroad, Khadija Saleh returned to Sudan in March to join protesters in the streets demanding change. She was taking part in a sit-in near the defence ministry in Khartoum on 3 June when security forces stormed in. The area had become a centre for anti-government protests.
Source: time
By Jillian Keenan and Nasibo Kabale
Hours before dawn at Soko ya Nadhif market in Garissa, Kenya, middle-aged women in neon hijabs shout orders at men. They glide smoothly, like ghosts, through the darkness, groaning under the weight of heavy bags of fresh, long-stemmed leaves, each emblazoned with a woman’s name. They work quickly: just one day earlier, on July 4, 2019, a rumored threat from al-Shabaab, the Somali terrorist group just across the border, had sent everyone at the market scurrying to safety and cost them a day of work. Now the pressure to make up time is palpable – and so is the sense of looming violence.
Source: UNFPA
Trik Dulene knows all about bullying and coercion when it comes to a woman’s reproductive choices.
Source: The Guardian
Nigeria’s traditional ‘Kayan Mata’ recipes have grown into a booming industry that’s empowering women to be more open about sex.
Source: DAILY MAVERICK
She is an African, feminist and human rights activist who has just been appointed to arguably one of the most important jobs in coordinating and leading the international AIDS response, possibly at the most significant moment in the epidemic’s lifespan.
Source: Deutsche Welle
An investigation into denim manufacturing centers in Africa has unveiled systemic sexual abuse by local and foreign managers. Female garment workers suffered abuse, harassment, and retaliation if they spoke up.
Source: TheEastAfrican
Africa’s Agenda 2063 places great import on the need to establish peace and stability on the continent as a key component of ensuring that the national and continental development agendas can be achieved.
Source: businessghana
The National Association of Local Authorities of Ghana (NALAG) has described as a national indictment, the continuous historical low levels of women’s representation in governance.