Source: All Africa
Our Children, Our FutureLoveness Mudzuru and Ruvimbo Tsopodzi were 16-year-old girls just beginning to plan careers as social workers or nurses when they were forced to marry men they had not chosen.
Source:New York Times
LAST fall President Obama slapped back at critics by citing what he called a foreign policy success: Yemen. Oops. Yemen is now collapsing into civil war, with gains, so far, for both Al Qaeda and Iran.
Source: AWID
Today makes it exactly one year that 200+ young female students from the Government Girl’s Secondary School Chibok, Borno State, Nigeria were abducted by heavily armed men suspected to be Bokoharam Islamist terrorists in the dead of the night from their school during an examination period.
Source: Mail&Guardian
Hillary Clinton Sunday announced her candidature for the US presidency, the second time she will seek the Democratic Party's nomination following her failed bid in 2008.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Boko Haram Islamic militants have kidnapped at least 2,000 girls and women since the start of last year, turning them into cooks, sex slaves and fighters, and sometimes killing those who refused to comply, Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
Source: Daily News Egypt
Six men sexually harassed a woman Monday by surrounding and trapping her on Qasr Al-Nil bridge, reported the 'I Saw Harassment' initiative that is fighting violence and harassment against women. During the incident, it was observed that there was an absence of female police officers amid a presence of male police conscripts.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Pakistani teenager and Nobel laureate Malala Yousafzai on Tuesday told Nigerian schoolgirls who were kidnapped a year ago by Boko Haram militants they will never be forgotten and to never lose hope.
Source: Zimbabwe Independent
FORMER vice-president Joice Mujuru and her allies in and outside Zanu PF have seriously begun a process of organising a new political platform to challenge Zanu PF in the 2018 general elections.
Source: ANGOP
The efforts of the Angolan government, in 13 years of peace prevailing in the country, have empowered the women's emancipation, said on Sunday in Bailundo municipality, central Huambo province, the minister of Family and Women Promotion, Maria Filomena Delgado.
Source: Premium Times
The Independent National Electoral Commission has declared Saturday's governorship election in Taraba state inconclusive.
Source: International Business Times
In the middle of 54,000 runners at 12 April's Paris Marathon, Siabatou Sanneh stood out. Carrying a 20kg water container on her head and wearing her race number 64173 on top of a multi-coloured traditional dress, Siabatou wanted to make a statement.
Source: Quartz
The leader of South Africa's main opposition party is stepping down. On Apr. 12, Helen Zille, 64, announced she will not be seeking reelection at the May 2015 congress of the Democratic Alliance (DA), though she will retain her position as premier of Western Cape province through Dec. 2019.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
YOUTH and women in Kilimanjaro region have been assured of getting 10 per cent of every district council's revenue for their development activities.
Source: The Guardian
Justice has finally been served for a 16-year-old girl who was gang-raped and left for dead in Kenya's Busia county in June 2013.
Source: Horseed Media
Since the collapse of the central government in 1991, Somalia has suffered from civil-war, widespread famine, broken infrastructure, rampant human, women, and civil rights abuses, poverty, human trafficking, rape, murder and corruption on every level of the society.
Source: AllAfrica
Zimbabwe's Ministry of Health is currently gathering evidence on acceptance of a new Cupid Female Condom before rolling it out.
Source: AllAfrica
EAST African Community (EAC) Secretariat in collaboration with GIZ plan to conduct sensitization workshop in Mtukula and Sirari borders between April 16 and 17 and 23 and 24 respectively to strengthen communication and sensitization of the community achievements and popularizing integration benefits.
Source: AWID
It's been one year since the abduction by Boko Haram of 276 female students from their boarding school in Chibok, Borno State in northeastern Nigeria.
Source: International Business Times
Most countries in the world have failed to achieve the "Education for All" (EFA) targets set by the United Nations in 2000, with only half the countries achieving universal primary school enrolment, according to a report released by Unesco on Thursday.
Source: The Ethiopian Herald
Scholars argue that though democratic and participatory election immensely benefits all, it affords women the cream of the cake.