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
Source: Oye Times
The 31 page-document was launched at Juba Grant Hotel by the Minister of Gender, Child and Social Welfare Awut Deng Acuil and Deputy Special Representative of the United Nation Secretary General (DSR-UNSG) in South Sudan, Mr. Eugene Owusu attended by other dignitaries.
Source: IOL
The fight against cancers that hit women in Africa especially hard because of late diagnosis received a significant boost with the launch of a new partnership between the World Health Organisation and the International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers and Associations (IFPMA) on Wednesday.
Source: Leadership
Recently, the news making rounds in the print and social media is the sad story of Ronke, a banker, who was allegedly beaten to death by her husband. Ronke, a mother of two was found dead in her Lagos home on Friday last week, while her husband was said to have fled the scene of the crime. The Lagos State Police Command has since launched a manhunt for her husband, Mr. Lekan Shonde, and hopefully he will be caught soon and made to answer for his crime.
Source: allAfrica
As part of the back-to-basics approach, the South African Police Service (SAPS) has relaunched its Women's Network and Men for Change structures.
The Women's Network was first established in 2003 to champion the rights of the most vulnerable groups in society and to ensure female emancipation is realised.
Source: This Day
To significantly increase the participation of women in the economy, African businesses must actively develop a pipeline of qualified female candidates for top management positions so as to harness the benefits women can bring to bear on the economy through quality leadership.
Source: All Africa
Cape Town — Woman journalists across Africa are being invited to join a network which aims to achieve better coverage of initiatives led by women and children and of the issues that affect them.
Source: Daily Trust
Justice Kudirat Motonmori Olatokunbo Kekere-Ekun is today the youngest female jurist at the Supreme Court.
Source: South African Government News Agency
Pretoria — As part of the back-to-basics approach, the South African Police Service (SAPS) has relaunched its Women's Network and Men for Change structures.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Tanzania Women Parliamentary Group (TWPG) has condemned the use of abusive language and mockery in Parliament last week that humbled and humiliated the dignity of women.
Source: Daily Trust
A 17-year-old girl, Nafisa Muhammed, was excited when she received the gift she least expected recently.
Source: UN Women News
After spending four years serving UN Women in Cape Verde, Programme Officer Maritza Rosabal 59, has been appointed as the country’s new Minister of Education, Family and Social Inclusion.
Source: Thomson Reuters
YAKO, Burkina Faso, May 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - When Inès Sanso was 15 years old, her family decided she was to marry a man three times her age in Yako, a small town in the rural north of Burkina Faso.
Source: Thomson Reuters
DUBAI, May 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - African women in politics need financial support from the West to help them forge ahead rather than leadership training, Malawi's former president Joyce Banda said on Sunday, adding that advice she had received in the past had backfired.
Source: UN Sierra Leone
The significance of incorporating gender perspectives in RSLAF work cannot be over emphasized, Brigadier General Kestoria Kabia A ten day training for 40 RSLAF (the Republic of Sierra Leone Armed Forces) officers drawn from all formations and units across the armed forces has commenced in Freetown on 4 May 2016.