Source: The New Times
By Julius Bizimungu
A new report on the status of gender equality in Rwanda that was launched last week shows that the country recorded significant gains on several fronts on the basis of promoting gender equality.
Source: South African Government News Agency
This week will see another milestone in the fight against gender-based violence, with a declaration scheduled to be launched and the Booysens Magistrate Court set to open its doors of justice.
Source: Daily Observer
By Leroy M. Sonpon
The two women accused of kidnapping and witchcraft in Sinoe were stripped naked and paraded through the streets. A third woman was mobbed to death.
Source: UNFPA
Lilongwe — Almost half a million women and girls are in need of sexual and reproductive health services in Malawi, following the recent floods caused by tropical cyclone Idai, which have affected 14 out of the 28 districts.
Source: The Independent
Samuel Osborne
‘Authorities should focus on holding perpetrators of serious rights violations to account instead of jailing schoolchildren for doodles,’ rights group says
Source: Vanguard
About 31 women are to be part of President Muhammadu Buhari's team in his second term in office. These women who come from different backgrounds have been carefully selected to head various ministries and agencies in a bid to encourage Nigerian women.
Source: Cameroon Tribune
A delegation of the North West, South West Women Task Force had talks with the Coordinator of the National Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration Committee.
Source: IPS News
Puntland, Somalia — Aisha Elias Adan was abducted on the evening of February 24th at a market in Israc village, Puntland, Somalia.
Her body was carelessly dumped in front of her family home the following morning. A doctor's report showed that she had been brutally gang-raped.
Source: News24Wire.com
By Canny Maphanga
South African human rights lawyer Bonita Meyersfeld will be appointed a Knight of the National Order of Merit by France for her work addressing gender-based violence.
Source: Radio Dabanga
Omdurman — On Tuesday, the Omdurman Women's Prison in Sudan released a large number of young women who were held during demonstrations over the past weeks. Large crowds in front of the prison chanted slogans condemning the recently imposed State of Emergency and calling for the overthrow of the government.
Source: VOA News
Cameroon is celebrating women's rights activist Aissa Doumara Ngatansou after she won France's inaugural Simone Veil Prize for helping victims of rape and forced marriage.
Source: UN News
Sexual attacks in South Sudan are so common that mothers now teach their daughters how to survive the ordeal of being raped, in such a way as to minimize the violence. That’s according to Yasmin Sooka, chair of the UN Commission on Human Rights, who was speaking in front of the Human Rights Council in Geneva, during its latest session.
Source: GroundUp
By Vincent Lali
Lack of enforcement of the law has lead to widespread violation of the rights of women farm workers, says NGO
Women farm workers marched in Cape Town on Friday to hand over a memorandum to the Western Cape Department of Agriculture and the Western Cape Department of Labour.
Source: DW.com
Few countries have more women in politics than Rwanda. They make up 60 percent of the lawmakers, 50 percent of the cabinet and half of the supreme court judges. But how much influence does this translate into.
Source: The Herald
By Phyliss Kachere
Over the past few days Zimbabwe's social media has been on fire.
Debate has been raging on various social media platforms after news filtered from a workshop held last week by the Parliamentary Portfolio Committee on Health and Child Care in Kadoma that during debate, parliamentarians were pushing for the reduction of the age of sexual consent from 16 to 12 years.
Source: allAfrica
In Sierra Leone, cases involving the abuse of women have rarely been prosecuted. Spousal abusers, child abusers and even rapists have, too often, walked free.
Source: Quartz Africa
Wole Soyinka called it: Nigeria’s women authors are at the center of something of a literary phenomenon.
Source: New Zimbabwe
Legal watchdog Veritas Zimbabwe has launched an Interactive Women's Platform which will provide information on the rights and status of women in Zimbabwe.
The platform will also provide information on where to turn and what legal options are available if women feel their rights are being violated or ignored, the organization said Wednesday.
Source: Capital FM
Nairobi — The vote on the two-thirds Gender Bill has flopped once again due to a quorum hitch in the National Assembly.
Source: VOA News
A court in Garowe, in northern Somalia, Saturday sentenced five male teenagers to death for the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl in Galkayo last month, officials said.