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

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.

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