Source: News Deeply
When, in June 2012, the wife of al-Qaida chief Ayman al-Zawahiri called on Muslim mothers to raise their children to support violent extremism, Somali women’s groups issued a public condemnation.

Source: SouthAfrica.info
Pinky Zungu would not have minded working as a pilot on a ship until the day she retired. But she was given what she describes as a more exhilarating position at Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA): Zungu is the first black female to be appointed the deputy harbour master: nautical at the Port of Durban.

Source:ISS Africa
A famous maxim of uncertain origin defines insanity as doing the same thing repeatedly, but expecting different results. In her opening statement at the United Nations (UN) High-Level Thematic Debate on Peace and Security, Nobel Peace laureate Leymah Gbowee used this definition to describe challenges faced by UN engagements in peace operations and peacebuilding.

Source:The Herald
Former Cabinet Minister Cde Webster Shamu was yesterday named in Parliament as the proprietor of a downtown strip tease joint that was allegedly used as a recruitment point in the trafficking of 150 women to Kuwait and other countries in the Middle East.

Source:Deutsche Welle
Deutsche Welle has learned that South Africa's Public Protector, who took on President Jacob Zuma over the use of taxpayers' money to upgrade his home, will be awarded the prestigious prize for her commitment to fighting corruption.

Source:The New Times (Kigali)
Cultural stigma and laxity to acknowledge gender mainstreaming efforts are some of the challenges still hampering Government's pursuit of gender equality, stakeholders in gender promotion have heard.

Source:The New Times (Kigali)
Female sex workers, being among the highest risk groups for contracting HIV, are priority segment of the population in the ongoing national efforts to fight the virus.

Source:VanGuard
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has announced a three-year $80 million commitment to close the gender data gap and accelerate progress for women and girls around the world.

Source: GhanaWeb
Her Excellency Dr. Joyce Banda, former President of the Republic of Malawi has passionately reiterated the imperative need for African women to strategize and deal with the election process at the grassroots level not because they know the people at the grassroots but because that is the only way they will be recognized and also make a difference at that level.   

Source: Women Deliver
With Women Deliver Live, we’re raising the bar! We are producing an original broadcast program packed with an all-star line-up of events, debates, and one-on-one interviews exclusively for all those who can’t join us in Copenhagen.

Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Female genital mutilation (FGM) will never end until men also throw their weight behind efforts to eradicate the potentially deadly practice, says Nigerian law student and anti-FGM activist Kelechukwu Nwachukwu.

Source: World Health Organisation
New WHO recommendations aim to help health workers provide better care to the more than 200 million girls and women worldwide living with female genital mutilation.

Source: Open Society Foundations
“The revolution is a woman,” declared Mariam Kirollos to a room of over 160 African feminists, who convened in Harare, Zimbabwe, last month for the fourth African Feminist Forum (AFF).

SOURCE: REUTERS
As the head of UN Women, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka is used to people rolling their eyes when she starts to talk about women’s empowerment and the need for equality for girls globally.

Source: The new York Times
The president of FIFA on Friday appointed Fatma Samoura of Senegal, a veteran United Nations diplomat, as the organization’s secretary general.

Source: The New Times
The World Economic Forum kicked off yesterday, in Kigali Rwanda. Under the theme, Connecting Africa's Resources through Digital Transformation, the forum calls for recognition of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in a journey that will see Africa develop faster.

Source: Yale News
Twelve women leaders from six African countries, including government ministers, parliamentarians, and other senior officials from Ethiopia, Liberia, Senegal, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Uganda, participated in the second annual Leadership Forum for Strategic Impact in April. At meetings held both at Yale and in Washington, D.C., participants discussed and debated key issues women in leadership face around the world.

Source: Non-profit Quarterly
Stella Nyanzi may have unwittingly started a revolution—a naked one. When the Ugandan academic was locked out of her university office in April over a departmental dispute, she stripped in protest, risking ridicule in the conservative country where a controversial anti-pornography law led to mob attacks against women in miniskirts in 2014. At the time, Uganda’s ethics and integrity minister, Simon Lokodo, reportedly said, “Put on a miniskirt but please don’t expose your thighs, your buttocks and your genitalia.”

Source: allAfrica
The Minister in the Presidency responsible for Women, Susan Shabangu, says women's empowerment will take centre stage in the year ahead.

The Minister said this when she tabled the department's Budget Vote in Parliament, in Cape Town, on Wednesday.

Source: allAfrica
Main address by the Deputy Minister of Police, Hon. Ms. Makhotso Maggie Sotyu (Mp) at the re-launch of SAPS' Women's Network and Men for Change

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