Source: Mail&Guardian
Across Africa in recent years, cycles of xenophobia, ethnic hatred and homophobia have sometimes degenerated into deadly spasms of violence.
Source: All Africa
This is the 12th in a series of articles marking regional progress on gender equality and women's empowerment. This reflective piece introduces the Beijing Platform for Action for analysis. A few weeks ago, in a meeting to reflect on the past 20 years since the Beijing 4th World Conference on Women in 1995, one participant brought up the subject of who had attended.
Source: IT Web Africa
Rwanda's Minister of Youth and ICT, Jean Philbert Nsengimana has called on girls to study towards a career in ICT as a means to acquire skills and tackle unemployment.
Source: Concord Times
The National Secretariat for the Reduction of Teenage Pregnancy in Sierra Leone will this week launch a new campaign to discourage the practice of pupils and students trading sex for grades in schools and tertiary institutions across the country.
Source: Reuters
Since its founding 70 years ago, the United Nations has been led by men, a tradition that some women's rights advocates are determined to break when the global body elects a new secretary-general next year.
Source: Human Rights Watch
At least 42 Muslim Peuhl herders, mostly women and girls, are being held captive by anti-balaka fighters in the Central African Republic and are at risk of sexual violence, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source: TheStar
Kenyans are now taking their children to Tanzania to undergo female genital mutilation because of the strict and punitive laws against the offenders in Kenya.
Source: AllAfrica
A bottom-up approach in girls' education needs to be adopted if the country is to consolidate its current gains in achieving gender parity.
Source:Project Syndicate
When Memory Banda’s younger sister was forced to marry at just 11 years old, Memory became determined to ensure that no more girls had to experience her sister’s fate. Since then, this remarkable young woman from rural Malawi has helped to persuade her government to raise the minimum age of marriage across her country, and is blazing a trail for girls that we all should follow.
Source: Ahram Online
A call by Egyptian journalist Cherif Choubachy for veiled Muslim women to take off their headscarves (hijab) has stirred widespread controversy in Egypt.
Source:UN News Centre
Who could have imagined that a small group of women farmers from a remote village could get their marmalade made from prickly cactus pears to a major European market like Eataly in Rome?
Source: The Guardian Nigeria
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) said it would educate 60,000 out-of-school girls and women in Rivers and the FCT in three years.
Source: Times of Zambia
BANK of Zambia Deputy Governor Tukiya Kankasa Mabula has urged female lawyers in Africa to upgrade their qualifications and not to resort to 'shortcuts' to succeed.
Source: Swazi Observer
This week the Swaziland media contained several articles about the damage caused by relatives of gender-based violence victims who do not report the crimes for fear of 'airing dirty family laundry' in public (tibi tendlu or 'house rubbish.')
Source: Daily Monitor
Igara West MP Raphael Magezi has said majority of Ugandan women are not yet emancipated and are still treated as lesser beings by men.
Source: Spy Ghana
As the search for who replaces the Chairman of Electoral Commissioner Dr Kwadwo Afari Gyan gathers momentum, The aL-hAJJ can confirm that President John Dramani Mahama, in line with his constitutional mandate, will be submitting three names to the Council of State for consideration and advice in the coming days.
Source: Global Post
In Benin, 34 percent of girls aged below 18 years and 8 percent of girls aged below 15 years are married, the resident representative of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), Anne Vincent, said on Monday, noting the early marriage goes against children's right.
Source: reliefweb
At least 2,000 women and girls have been abducted by Boko Haram since the start of 2014 and many have been forced into sexual slavery and trained to fight, said Amnesty International on the first anniversary of the abduction of the Chibok school girls.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
THE Civic United Front (CUF) has promised women in Zanzibar that they will prosper if it wins and forms government after the October General election.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Women herders in Kenya's semi-arid Laikipia County have broken with tradition to export the leaves of a desert plant to Europe, boosting their incomes.