Source:SuperSport
Professional basketball champion, graduate degree holder, working mother of triplets: Astou Ndiaye is a woman who girls in her native Senegal can look up to – literally. At six-foot-three (190 cm) tall, Ndiaye may have been a natural fit for basketball, but the skills learned playing the game have led to her substantial success off the court as well as on it.
Source:All Africa
Two former child brides have taken Zimbabwe's government to court in a ground-breaking bid to get child marriages declared illegal and unconstitutional.
Source: Daily News Egypt
"I don't know" is a simple answer usually used with sophisticated questions or questions that relate to worlds out of one's interest, but not to answer the question "How old are you?"
Source: The New Times
Maternity leave benefit scheme is expected to be gazetted on July 1, paving way for working women going on a 12-week maternity leave to be paid their full salary throughout their leave.
Source: The Washington Post
This is the story of what comes after the headlines. What happens after the shock dissolves and the news marches onto the next tragedy. This is what happens to the boys, girls and women who are kidnapped by Boko Haram — and why.
Source: IPS
At home she was subjected to death threats for defending women in northeastern Kenya who are vulnerable to rape, female circumcision and murder. This month, Amran Abdundi Amram was cheered as a hero as she collected the 2015 Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award for Campaigning.
Source: The Observer
At least 200 women in Kabale district tested positive for cervical cancer, in a recent testing drive by Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU).
Source: New Zimbabwe
Giveth Mambo chose to become a mechanic because it is an unusual career choice for a young woman. I wanted to make my own life, the young Zimbabwean explains ...
Source: StarAfrica
Gambians both at home and abroad have taken to social media to condemn the apparent arrest of Aminata Manneh, a female gender activist for posting a controversial image on her Facebook page.
Source: AFKInsider
Private equity is historically a male-dominated field, and historically, Africa's local industry has been no different.
Source: allAfrica
By Rainatou Sow: In October 2010, The AU launched the African women’s Decade in Nairobi – Kenya with the theme "Grassroots Approach to Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment." The aim of the African Women’s Decade is to advance gender equality by accelerating implementation of Dakar, Beijing and AU Assembly Decisions on Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment (GEWE), through dual top down and bottom up approaches, which is inclusive of grassroots participation.
Source: The New York Times
THIS is the tale of two women, each an emblem, in her own way, of one of the world's most corrupt and dysfunctional nations.
Source: Daily Trust
Coalition of women bodies under the auspices of the All Progressives Congress Action Group and Labour Party in Ekiti State have disagreed with the Inspector General of Police, Suleiman Abba, over his order that voters should go back home after casting their votes during the general elections.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The schoolboy watched as a man tried to remove the nappy of a little girl he was dragging along a Nairobi riverbank, suspecting that he was going to rape her.
Source: CNBC Africa
After spearheading significant economic transformation in her own country - as Cabo Verde or Cape Verde's Minister of Finance and Planning, Cristina Duarte is focusing her attention on addressing the challenges of the entire continent.
Source: Geeska Afrika
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Women diplomats, university students and ambassadors residing in Ethiopia, celebrated the 104th International Women's Day at the Hilton Hotel in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Source: The Post Zambia
US ambassador to Zambia Eric Schultz says the Zambian government needs to allow the private sector to drive growth if the country is to achieve its enormous economic potential.
Source: Open Democracy
Following an international conference on Ebola, the European Council has reiterated its "firm commitment" to ending the Ebola epidemic by getting new cases down to zero.
Source: WND
The United Nations and the Obama administration are turning a blind eye as millions of girls in China and India are murdered and women are forced to undergo abortions and sterilization.
Source: Jurist
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called on Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi Sunday to reject amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure that would interfere with the rights of defence lawyers to call witnesses during trials.