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.
Source: VOA
Cameroonian-born Professor Rose Gana Fomban Leke, winner of the 2011 Kwame Nkrumah Award for the best female scientist in Africa, is being celebrated in Cameroon for advancing research on malaria.
Source: EWN
African women are standing up against the xenophobic attacks in South Africa.
In Kenya, women's group Femnet says Africans shouldn't be labelled as foreigners on their own continent, as that too brings with it negative attitudes.
The Pan-African organisation has members from 42 countries in Africa, including South Africa.
The Pan-African organisation has members from 42 countries in Africa, including South Africa. Picture: Thomas Holder/EWN.
Spokesperson Nabila Abdulmalik says it's shocked by what happened and believes it's time to work together, now more than ever, in understanding our differences.
"I am shocked to hear Africans being labelled foreigners on their own continent; perhaps we can label them as non-South Africans."
Femnet has joined many others who condemn xenophobia but its main focus is educating Africans on the cause of inequalities that it believes seems to trigger these incidents.
Source: NoozHawk
A Somali-born women's rights activist and free speech champion who has been a high-profile and vocal critic of Islam will be in Santa Barbara next month to talk about her new book.
Source: RFI
Women bear the brunt of most conflict, says UN Special Representative for the Secretary-General on Women in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura, on the release of her report on sexual violence in conflict that looks at 19 countries, mainly in Africa. But if women are treated badly during peacetime, do not expect them to fare any better during war, she told RFI.
Source: HRW
A new Malawi law that sets 18 as the minimum age for marriage is an important step toward preventing child marriage, Human Rights Watch said today.
Source: The Herald
Representation of women at the top in business in Zimbabwe has gone up over the years following the implementation of economic empowerment vehicles that encourage and support women's participation in the economy.