Efforts at eradicating the female genital mutilation, FGM, in Osun received a boost on Tuesday as 12 communities across four local governments declared their intentions to completely stop the practice.
Source: The Herald
Loud ululations capture the moment and joy reflected on the people's faces. The local authority has just announced that it will invest in constructing a borehole for the community.
SALGA calls for all political parties to respect and advance the imperative of gender equality.
Members of various religious groups in Malawi held street protests Tuesday against a proposed law that would expand women’s ability to terminate a pregnancy.
Source: allAfrica
Victoria — A new hospital offering specialized care for women and children will open in February, the Seychelles health authorities announced on Tuesday.
Source: news24
Lagos – Frustrated by living in poverty, gender discrimination and deep-rooted patriarchy, women in northeast Nigeria could easily be forced into joining the ranks of extremist groups, analysts have said.
Source: Morocco World News
Rabat – Stephanie Willman and Saida Kouzzi, along with a slew of NGOs and women’s rights activists, are working to change this.
Source: Algerie Presse Service
WASHINGTON- The strengthening of women’s participation in the political life in Algeria has been hailed as leading experience in the promotion of the Arab women’s leadership, as part of the Fifth Annual Arab-American Day held in Washington.
Source: MGAfrica
Young female African entrepreneurs must speak out and act as role models to inspire other women to shake up a profession dominated by white men, according to the co-founder of a business helping women entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
Tanzanian police in the Tarime/Rorya Special Zone and their Kenyan counterparts have agreed to cooperate in the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM).
Source: The Herald
Zimbabwe has made significant strides over women in the workplace and is now ranked sixth out of 27 countries including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries on the African continent, a recent study has shown.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"We give practical training to girls in colleges on how energy is generated from the sun, water and human waste," says one training organisation
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"For some women trapped in domestic life, Boko Haram offers an escape"
Source: allAfrica
Dakar — "It's hard for young female African entrepreneurs to feel like they fit in, if they can't see any role models out there"
Source: Council on Foreign Relations
Nigeria has been identified as one of eleven emerging economies with high growth potential for the coming decades. And yet, Nigeria is far from achieving the World Bank’s goal of universal financial access by 2020, with women comprising the majority of Nigeria’s “unbanked.” Only one-third of Nigerian women own a bank account, compared with more than half of Nigerian men, a stubborn gender gap that has grown, not shrunk, in recent years, from 7 percent in 2011 to 21 percent in 2014.
Source: Morocco World News
Rabat – Outspoken member of the Saudi royal family Prince Alwaleed bin Talal has urged an end to the ban on women driving in his country in a statement on his official Twitter account.
Source: CNN
The number of new HIV infections 'is not declining' and young women the world over are still at risk.
Women serving in security organs in more than thirty countries in Africa have pledged to keep up efforts against gender-based violence (GBV) by meeting more often to share their experiences and monitoring violence against women and girls more closely in their countries.
The Department of Social Development has launched the National Emergency Response Team (NERT) to provide psycho-social support to victims affected by gender-based violence.
The National Paralympics Committee (NPC) president Celestin Nzeyimana has said that the body will continue to empower women with disability through sports.