Already blind, Catherine Mwayonga was written off by doctors as having six months to live after being diagnosed with HIV. Fifteen years later, she now helps other disabled HIV-positive Kenyans to demand better treatment and adapt to life with the disease.
Source: allAfrica
As the healthcare segment of a digital industrial company, GE Healthcare is expected to do what any business must do: drive growth and a strong balance sheet.
Source: Thomson Reuters
A Kenyan police officer has been jailed for 20 years for raping a 13-year-old girl, despite saying they are now married, in a case campaigners heralded as a breakthrough in justice in a country where such convictions are rare.
Source: IOL
Johannesburg - When you look at the lists of the most powerful business leaders in Africa, you rarely see women and definitely not young women.
Source: National Mirror
Despite increasing global campaigns to drastically reduce maternal deaths or even eliminate them, Nigeria still loses 111 of its women to pregnancy-related complications daily, a group working on 4th Family Planning Conference in Nigeria, said yesterday.
Source: The Guardian
The number of women in the world’s poorest countries using modern forms of contraception has jumped by more than 30 million in the past four years, according to a report that found the most significant progress had been made in sub-Saharan Africa.
Source: Fair Observer
The growth of cooperatives is one example of how women in the Middle East and North Africa are fighting back and showing resilience.
Source: World.Mic
Ask Aline Kabanda the key to Rwanda's future success, and she will tell you: educating and empowering women.
Source: News Deeply
According to the World Health Organization’s 2006 study on domestic violence, the most common form of violence against women is perpetrated by their intimate partners. But in many parts of Africa, the rape of a woman by her husband isn’t considered a crime.
Source: Premium Times
Government officials and other authorities in Nigeria have raped and sexually exploited women and girls displaced by the conflict with Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
Source: News Deeply
One night earlier this month, a lesbian couple were sleeping at home after having returned from a music festival in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, in eastern South Africa. They were woken by loud noises outside. Shortly after, a group of men kicked down their door, entered the house and demanded sex.
Source: Front Page Africa
Macdella Cooper, who previously acknowledged to the New York Post that her third child is fathered by football legend and Montserrado County Senator George Weah and expressed interest in becoming the future First Lady of Liberia is now eyeing the Liberian presidency, becoming the first woman to do so for the 2017 Presidential elections.
Source: News Deeply
In early 2013, as women and children fleeing Boko Haram flooded into the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, Fatima Askira watched them arrive to under-resourced makeshift camps with nothing more than the tattered clothes on their backs.
Source: UN Women
Between 1993 and 2005, the civil war in Burundi cost approximately 300,000 lives and left hundreds of thousands displaced. In 2015, strife erupted once again.
Source: UN Women
This week, as the United Nations Security Council holds the annual Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security to discuss protection of women and girls in conflict and women’s leadership in preventing, resolving, and recovering from conflicts, the war in Syria enters its sixth year, contributing to a global refugee crisis. Iraqi forces enter Mosul amidst a dire humanitarian situation, and peace remains uncertain in countries such as South Sudan and Colombia.
Source: African Peacebuilding Network
Africa faces formidable challenges with regard to the relatively few women influencing decisions and policies related to peace and security.
Source: News Deeply Women & Girls Hub
Studies of women’s political participation tend to focus on totting up MPs and cabinet ministers. A pilot investigation into women’s leadership in African governments and legislatures adds two new indicators to look at their influence, not just the numbers.
Source: Nigeria Today
Former Finance Minister, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has said that involvement of women in the Federal Government’s financial inclusion programmes could add about 10 to 12 per cent to the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
Source: allAfrica
Johannesburg — IT was an interesting, though provoking media discussion that was called to debate the role of women in the media.
Source: The Huffington Post
‘Sexual harassment, well that’s everywhere!’ says one schoolteacher in the small dusty town of Mbour. I’m in the small West African nation of Senegal researching how women perceive their access to justice for my foundation Project Monma.