Source: Afrobarometer
Despite growing public support for gender parity, and government initiatives to promote it in some African countries, inequalities in educational attainment remain a significant obstacle to women’s empowerment.
Source: The Conversation
Coming after decades of conflict and a hard-won victory, there were high hopes that South Sudan’s independence would lead to a lasting peace. But those hopes have so far been thwarted.
Source: The Guardian
Study in Lancet shows a woman’s lifetime chance of dying from childbirth is one in 36 in sub-Saharan Africa, compared to one in 4,900 in richer countries
Source: RFI
Farmers in the Central African Republic are struggling to bounce back from years of violence, where smallholder female farmers were unable to tend their fields during the conflict.
Source: Daily News
About 500 secondary school students in Mwanza Region have been enlightened on the evil wrought by human traffickers and what to do to avoid being hoodwinked into falling into the traps of criminals who sell fellow human beings like cows, goats and sheep.
Source: New Zimbabwe
More than 770 pregnant women tested positive for syphilis between January and June this year in the Midlands province, an official in the ministry of health has revealed.
Source: Daily Monitor
Mr. Andrew Napaja Keem has launched a door to door campaign rallying boys in the district to shun marrying girls who have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
Source: GroundUp
Years of neglect have left villages like Chikwidzire outside Espungabera in the largely rural Manica province of Mozambique a backwater.
Source: PRI
In recent weeks, hundreds of South African students have accused their schools of racism.
Source: SciDev.Net
The AGRF forum has made me realise that to make agriculture attractive to women and the youth, Africa must invest in education at all levels- Sam Otieno
Source: Thompson Reuters Foundation
Rushing from one pregnant woman to another in the antenatal ward of Sierra Leone's main maternity hospital, Josephine Powells, a midwifery student, is all too aware of the danger facing the dozens of expecting mothers under her care.
Source: openDemocracy
Women have been trailblazers in Africa, but who knows about it? We must recognise that storytelling is just as important a weapon in the fight for gender parity as political representation.
Source: International Business Times
The three women who launched an attack Sunday at a police station in eastern Kenya were fighters with the Islamic State group, according to a new report from a terror watchdog organization.
Source: ITWeb Africa
In terms of technology, women in some regions in Africa are among the most marginalised globally, according to a 2015 global report on Women's Rights Online.
Source: UN News Centre
A former United Nations peacekeeper from Niger has been presented with the inaugural UN Military Gender Advocate of the Year Award for her work in integrating gender perspectives into peacekeeping activities while serving in Mali.
Source: The East African
The clan factor will be the biggest obstacle for Somali women seeking leadership positions as the country heads for elections this month.
Source: The Guardian
Funding to women’s rights organisations has fallen by more than half over the past five years, despite recent studies that suggest the work of such groups brings the greatest long-term improvement to women’s lives.
Source: Inter Press Service
Mambera Hellem tells her friends and neighbours about all forms of contraception, yet despite their high HIV risk she knows many of the women she speaks to will not use condoms.
SOURCE: allAfrica
Lagos — The Lagos State governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode, yesterday said all perpetrators of domestic crimes will be made to face the wrath of the law.
Source: Thomson Reuters News
More women must be included in United Nations peacekeeping missions to help restore credibility to troops marred by accusations of sexual violence and to protect women in conflict, speakers at a U.N. defence summit said on Thursday.