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.
Source: Thomson Reuters News
More than 200 million girls and women globally have suffered genital mutilation, far higher than previously estimated, which highlighted the need to accelerate efforts to eradicate the practice, the United Nations said on Friday.
Source: GlobalVoices
The attacks that have recently struck the Western world have dominated the front pages of the media. Attacks on less wealthy countries do not often receive the same level of media coverage, as though a life lost in the Sahel or Iraq will inspire less compassion than a life lost elsewhere.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation News
When Fatia, 25, leaves her home to sell sex in the grungy hotels and hastily parked cars of the Ugandan capital, Kampala, she keeps her hand clenched around her phone.
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Girls in Guinea are increasingly being subjected to female genital mutilation (FGM) before the age of 10, and support for the practice among women and girls in the West African nation is on the rise, the United Nations rights office said on Monday.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation News
When Clarisse's husband died of malaria last year in the Cameroonian city of Douala, she was kicked out of their home by his family and forced to marry his brother.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation News
DAKAR, July 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Women's rights activists on Friday welcomed Gambian President Yahya Jammeh's decision to ban child marriage, but said jailing parents who marry off their daughters could spark a backlash in a country where a third of girls are wed before they turn 18.