Source: News24 Wire
A rights group has called for the immediate lifting of a "deeply discriminatory ban on visibly pregnant girls attending school and taking exams" in Sierra Leone.
Source: Vanguard
To avert the death of approximately one million children and women annually from preventable diseases in Nigeria, stakeholders in child and family health services have called for upward review of budgetary allocation and prompt release of funds for health to ensure improved healthcare services at the primary level.
Source: allAfrica
At least one per cent of the Mozambican state budget should be earmarked for activities focused on gender equality.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"I want to go to Italy because I want to make money. If it is prostitution, I'll do it."
Source: allAfrica
Grace* raised her children in the cramped corridors of Kampala's slums where proximity and necessity make neighbours de facto family members. But everyone looked the other way when her husband started beating her.
Source: npr
Nigeria is deploying 100 female police officers to protect women in displaced persons camps in the state of Borno, after a scathing Human Rights Watch report said officials, including security guards, have "raped and sexually exploited" dozens of women.
Source: Reuters
GADO-BADZERE, Cameroon, Nov 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Alone, hungry and traumatised having watched her parents die in war-torn Central African Republic, 14-year-old Koulsoumi believed the worst was behind her when she was taken in by a family in Cameroon after fleeing across the border last year.
Source: The Guardian
How can women in Nigeria become economically empowered and contribute to the development of the country? Our panel of experts share their thoughts.
Source: The Monitor
The ban on comprehensive sex education in Uganda's schools needs challenging. That Uganda has a ministry of Ethics and Integrity that is entirely engrossed with sexual morality but does not support sexual health education in school is shameful.
Source: Daily Trust
The Benue State Family Planning Advocacy Working Group (BSFPAWG) has said that identified 63 percent unsafe abortions can be prevented with increase in family planning use.
Source: The Citizen
Next week Tanzania is hosting two global meetings that will focus on women, their survival, well-being, and their access to life saving maternal and reproductive health services.
Source: The Standard
Most Zimbabwean girls, especially those in marginalised communities, have big dreams, but they can't build their future because they have always received a wooden spoon from their parents when it comes to education.
Source: The Guardian
Entrepreneurs from around the world gather for a three-day conference looking at how the continent can get creative with the internet.
SOURCE: The Guardian
On Wednesday, hundreds gathered in front of the Johannesburg high court to mark thedeathof Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo, the feminist Aids activist who accused Jacob Zuma of rape. The tribute was organised by theOne in Nine campaign, a group of feminist activists formed a decade earlier to provide solidarity as Kuzwayo testified against Zuma – a family friend and prominent member of the ruling African National Congress – inside the selfsame court.
Source: Women & Girls Hub News Deeply
South African law requires marriages be conducted by a registered official. But many of the country’s Muslims get married in exclusively religious ceremonies, leaving married Muslim women with little legal protection, say activists.
Source: Think Geoenergy
WING Africa, the African "chapter" of the international group of Women in Geothermal (WING) was officially launched during a reception held on 1 November 2016 at the United Nations Conference Center in Addis Ababa/ Ethiopia.
Source: allAfrica
In 2014, the father of teenager Scholastica Arutiang refused to pay for her secondary school education and instead encouraged her to get married.
Source: allAfrica
Tanzania is committed to ensure strong political commitment to family planning at all levels, increase national financing for family planning commodities as well as to strengthen contraceptive commodity security.
Source: allAfrica
Kinshasa, DRC — Over the course of the past three years, the DRC has reduced incidents of sexual violence by half, from 15,000 cases in 2013 to 7,500 cases in 2015, according to a UN Security Council Preliminary Report on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.
Source: News Deeply
Every morning at 3 a.m., Esther Katuma, a 34-year-old mother of five, leaves her house in search of water. She hopes to return before her children come home from school for lunch and in time to scare away the baboons that have been devouring the bananas and pawpaws on her farm.