Source: US News
It's the middle of sex education class in Zola Business High School and 90 teenage boys and girls are laughing and talking through a presentation about birth control, condoms and HIV.
Source:Brookings
While stories of Boko Haram enslaving girls and burning down schools abound in Western media, counter-trends of local champions leading the way for girls’ education in the West African countries of Nigeria and Mali largely go unnoticed.
Source:News Deeply
Whiz Kids Workshop has captured the imagination of Ethiopia’s young people with its innovative TV and radio shows. The company’s Tinbit Daniel explains how they’re helping improve literacy rates and promoting health and confidence in girls.
SOURCE:IPS
Amid the hustle and bustle of downtown Hargeisa, Somaliland’s sun-blasted capital, women in various traditional Islamic modes of dress barter, argue and joke with men—much of it particularly volubly. Somaliland women are far from submissive and docile.
Source: UN Daily News Digest
New assessments of the protection risks faced by the affected people living in Nigeria’s restive north-eastern Borno state have concluded that women face a high risk of abuse in displacement sites, the United Nations humanitarian wing has reported.
Source: UN Daily News Digest
With the continuing rise in interlinked political crises and challenges around the world, United Nations Member States must draw on shared expertise supported by a multilateral peace and security architecture to attain a more peaceful future for all, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon declared today.
Source: Botswana Daily News
Francistown — Ms Elizabeth Mathumo, 62, who is living with disability knows that being a woman at the top of a male dominated industry is not an easy position to occupy.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Female "silence and submissiveness" stop women from taking advantage of equal property laws in Rwanda.
Source: The Namibian
ESTER* (not her real name) had her childhood cruelly snatched from her when their neighbour and her father's trusted friend raped her.
Source: African Development Bank Group
The African Development Bank Group's Special Envoy on Gender, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, will take an active role in the 2016 Infrastructure Business Forum, to be held on June 9 and 10, 2016 in Sandton, South Africa.
Source: Citifonline
The first outdoor event of the Citi Business Festival, The Footprint, comes off today (Thursday) at the Ghana Telecom University College.
The event is a platform designed to engage tertiary students as they prepare for the corporate world.
Source: AllAfrica
Stephanie Kimou is a renowned feminist who has graced several talk shows all over the world. She is a policy analyst in International Programs with a background in reproductive health and gender.
Source: UN News
More than a decade has passed since the situation in Darfur, Sudan, was referred to her Office, yet the victims' quest for justice is still far from being realized and they continue to be subjected to grave crimes and suffering, the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) told the United Nations Security Council today.
Source: The Herald
Africa recently commemorated the 58th anniversary of African Liberation Day on May 25. When most of us think of Pan-Africanism and its major icons, women will not instinctively come to mind.
Source: The New Times
Reigning national woman chess champion Marie Faustine Shimwa, 22, this month became the first Rwandan female to get the coveted World Chess Federation (FIDE) rating.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
In a setting influenced by cultural stigma in Pangani, Tanga Region, it was left to Aisha, a feature film depicting sexual violence.
Source: The Observer
Namono still feels uncomfortable mentioning her daughter’s name; her daughter, Helen, died three years ago after an attempted abortion went wrong and took her life.
Source: The New Times
On April 24, 2016, Marguerite Barankitse of Maison Shalom and REMA Hospital in Burundi was named the inaugural Laureate of the $1million Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity.
Source: AllAfrica
All is set for Rwanda to host the African Unit Summit scheduled for July 10 -18 in Kigali, Foreign Affairs minister Louise Mushikiwabo has said.
Source: Face2Face Africa
Liberia's president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has once again broken the gender ceiling by making history as the first female elected chairperson of the Economy of West African States (ECOWAS).