Source: Women’s Agenda
Imagine being told you couldn’t own something because you’re a woman. Being kicked from your land and your home for not being a man.
Progress has been patchy and authors warn against poor quality care with rising rates of over-medicalisation, too few trained staff or basic resources in many regions.
Source: Associate Press
Youma Fall used to set her school books aside for her younger siblings. Then she realized the books could be put to use in other ways in a country where many students struggle to own even pencils and pens.
Source: Daily News
The government has been called upon to pay special attention to some areas relating to gender, education and access to basic socio-economic needs to address inequalities existing among social groups in the country.
Source: The Guardian
As the global refugee summits draw nearer, world leaders need to be preassured into alleviatng women’s suffering.
SOURCE: The Guardian
At night, Chad’s dictator would sit at his desk, smoking and watching as his agents tortured Khadidja Zidane. Hissène Habré did not know Zidane, an illiterate, poor woman. When he had had enough of watching, he would send her away, then have her brought back in the early hours of the morning to rape her.
Source: SA News
National Treasury has told members of Parliament that instead of exempting a VAT tax on sanitary pads, government departments should budget for them and give them away to members of the public, including schools, for free.
Source: The Point
Female Lawyers Association of The Gambia (FLAG), with the financial support of ActionAid International The Gambia, recently held a daylong training for senior police officers on methods of providing legal counselling in cases of gender-based violence.
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.