SOURCE: All Africa
Angola is still concerned about the "deteriorating and unacceptable state of African women and youth as they face increasing levels of unemployment, poverty, armed conflicts and prevailing diseases".
SOURCE: Standard Digital
In the now highly acclaimed TED talk entitled "The Danger of a Single Story", award-winning author Chimamanda Adichie makes the point that when you show a person as one thing, as only one thing, over and over again, that is what they become.
In other words, to define a person, especially to define a person in the media, perception is more important than reality. Women leaders in Kenya have been especially susceptible to twisted attacks by a male-dominated patriarchal system that is unable and unwilling to countenance women as part of the power structure.
Source: The New Times
Maintaining hygiene and feeding children under five on food rich in proteins and vitamins is the best way to reduce child mortality in local communities, the Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion, Henriette Umulisa, has said.
Source: UN News Centre
Applauding the decision by Member States to include gender equality as a key plank of the newly-adopted 2030 Agenda, a senior United Nations labour agency official has stressed the importance of empowering women in employment, salaries and the working environment, urging governments to commit to this achievable, basic right.
Source: All Africa
Montserrado County District #1 Representative Josephine Francis has challenged women to see the 2017 general elections as "the perfect chance" to capture 50 percent of the 73 seats in the Lower House of the National Legislature.
Source: All Africa
Despite the advent of Christianity and Islam with the attendant change in way of life, villages in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) still indulge in the old age practice of killing of twins which the Scottish missionary to Nigeria Mary Mitchell Slessor abolished in the 19th Century.
Source: All Africa
The Ministry of Health called on stakeholders to exert more efforts to achieve health sector Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by reducing maternal and child mortality rate.
Source: All Africa
The queen of Buganda, Nnabagereka Sylvia Nagginda, has decried the high number of maternal deaths and HIV prevalence among mothers in Kayunga District.
Source: All Africa
An Ethiopian woman whose terrifying ordeal of kidnap and rape at the hands of her would-be husband inspired Angelina Jolie's new film Difret says she hopes her story will help end the tradition of child bride abductions.
Source: BBC World
Zeinab Badawi moderates a live audience who will grill African decision-makers about equality for women.
Source: MG Africa
26% of households across the continent are headed by women; the probability that a woman heads a household has been increasing in all regions.
Source: All Africa
The President, Voice of Women in Nigeria Leadership Initiative, an NGO, Hajiya Halima Tijjani, has called on women to encourage girl-child education to bridge discrimination against women.
Source: Shabelle News
Somali ministry of women and human rights said it is setting up plans to eradicate crimes against humanity and the gender‐based violence in the country.
Source: Daily Monitor
Stakeholders in health service delivery in South Western Uganda have noted that without deliberate involvement and targeting of other key stakeholders in tackling reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, government efforts to reverse the trend of maternal and child deaths will never achieve a remarkable progress.
Source: The UN Refugee Agency
The UN refugee agency said today it was concerned by "credible testimonies" it has received of sexual violence and abuse against refugee and migrant women and children on the move in Europe and called on authorities to take steps to ensure their protection.
Source: Mail & Guardian Africa
LOCAL doctors told Aida Abdulla her chest pain was an infection, arthritis or muscle strain. But when she travelled to a hospital in Khartoum months later she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Source: the Guardian
As the most populous city in Africa, life in Lagos can present a number of urban challenges. Since 2004, Nigeria has seen a 5% increase in the number of people living below $1 per day, despite recently overtaking South Africa as the continent's largest economy.
Source: Mail & Guardian Africa
OVER the past two decades, poverty in sub-Saharan Africa has fallen from 56% in 1990 to 43% in 2012, and is projected to fall even further, to 35% this year.
Source: Mail & Guardian Africa
OVER the past two decades, poverty in sub-Saharan Africa has fallen from 56% in 1990 to 43% in 2012, and is projected to fall even further, to 35% this year.
Source: UN Woman
A dozen of the women candidates trained by UN Women and partners speak about the challenges they've faced in the lead-up to this weekend's presidential, parliamentary and local elections and how the training has motivated them.