Source:AllAfrica
In the late 1990s, the United Nations defined its third Millennium Development Goal as the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Source:The Guardian
At a dispensary in Nyaluoyo village in western Kenya, there is just one midwife on duty. There are three women in labour, about 40 children waiting to be vaccinated, and another 15 people with other ailments.
Source: Leadership
The Women in Politics Forum [WIPF] a network of women groups yesterday demanded for a 50 per cent equity in the distribution of appointments in the incoming government of President Elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari.
Source:United Nations News Centre
More open and constructive dialogues should be held among Sudanese stakeholders as a top priority to address ‘the silence and the denials’ of crimes against women, a United Nations human rights expert concluded after her recent mission to the country.
Source:AllAfrica
AN independent fibre optic infrastructure and telecommunications services provider across West Africa, Phase3 Telecom, is soliciting for early education and consistent technology training for the girl child in order to sustain them and active in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) space.
Source: The Observer
The undertaking of oil exploration typically has profound social, cultural and political impacts - both negative and positive, both in the country at large and in the region of operation.
Source: The Star
Four women arrested by Kenya Defence Forces officers in Mandera while allegedly trying to leave the country to join Islamic State fighters in Syria have been denied bail by a Mombasa court.
Source: NewsDay
Maternal conditions and cervical cancer are among the top causes of death in Zimbabwe with more than 1 400 women dying annually from cancer-related illnesses.
Source: New Kerala
More open and constructive dialogues should be held among Sudanese stakeholders as a top priority to address 'the silence and the denials' of crimes against women, a United Nations human rights expert concluded after her recent mission to the country.
Source:Times of Zambia
THE World Bank Group has approved a loan worth US$130 million for the implementation of the Girls’ Education, Women’s Empowerment and Lusaka sanitation projects.
Source:IoL News
Zanzibar, Tanzania - Natasha Ali was devastated when she realised the man accused of snatching her 14-year-old daughter off a street in Zanzibar and raping her had been freed for lack of evidence.
Source: All Africa
Africa must fully endorse the role of women's empowerment and gender equality as a key driver of the process of sustainable development on the continent, the group of African women ambassadors to Zimbabwe has said.
Source: Reuters
Casablanca — Every day hundreds of Moroccan women and girls put their lives at risk by seeking backstreet abortions or trying to end unwanted pregnancies themselves with needles and poison.
Source: The Point
Another female has defied the odds and the traditions in The Gambia by venturing into the male dominant area of commercial taxi driving.
Source: Daily Trust
A very high percentage of women are carried away with the excitement of starting a new business rather than getting information on how to make the business a household name and stand the test of time.
Source: TheGuardian
At least 100 women were brutally attacked in the South Kivu province of Congo last week – yet another atrocity amid more than a decade of sexual violence that has earned the region the title "rape capital of the world".
Source: The Ethiopian Herald
Women election participation in the country's political landscape is said to be significantly growing day by day.
Source: The New Republic Liberia
Journalists in Liberia have mandated the Press Union of Liberia (PUL) to work with all media institutions in the country to ensure access and apply gender media policy.
Source: News24Wire
Zimbabwe has the highest condom usage in the world and this has contributed to a reduction in HIV infections, the state-run National Aids Council (NAC) has revealed.
Source:All Africa
The Network against Gender Based Violence (NGBV), a women's rights organisation, recently held a three-day training workshop for young women from various youth groups geared towards building their leadership and advocacy skills.