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).
Source:Face2Face Africa
Living with autism in Ghana has just been made more bearable since HopeSetters, an autism center, came out with a locally configured autism app that helps children with autism receive better education.
Source: The Guardian
She can’t quite explain it, but for the best part of five decades, since she was a very young schoolgirl growing up in the Gambia, Fatou Bensouda says she has felt powerfully driven by a sense of right and wrong.
Source: News Deeply
U.N. Women estimates that one in 10 of the nation’s women are victims of violence each year. Cape Town’s Sonke organization is tackling the issue by turning men into better husbands and fathers.
Source: AllAfrica
If you were determined to wipe out poverty and were president of a country, you'd want by your side someone who has diverse expertise in a variety of sectors, such as business and finance, management and the law – and who shares your passion for addressing inequality. Five weeks before his inauguration last year, Namibian President Hage Geingob married that person.
Source: HuffPost Women
In Yoruba culture, pregnant women and mothers are celebrated in a concept that I hold dear to my heart - Alaafia Abiyamo. Alaafia Abiyamo is a belief that motherhood transcends the physical process and is a transformative pre-gestational, social, prenatal, postnatal, spiritual, and community role.
Source: Forbes
Human rights advocate Clemantine Wamariya shares her powerful story of hope and resilience after surviving the Rwandan genocide and life as a refugee, speaking at the Forbes Women’s Summit.