Source: AFK Insider
Akaliza Kera Gara is one of Rwanda's leading female technology entrepreneurs and founder of Sharing Sun, a multimedia business.
Source: Medical Daily
Amid the climbing death toll, the Ebola outbreak has unexpectedly brought female genital mutilation (FGM) to a standstill after FGM practitioners decided to refuse to do the procedure due to fear of Ebola transmission through bodily fluids.
Source: Business Day Live
Nigerians fleeing a wave of killings by the extreme Islamist group Boko Haram have already lost loved ones, livelihoods and most of their possessions.
Source: All Africa
PLEDGE by the government to offer free secondary school education for all comes amid serious call by activists for elimination of unbefitting traditions of paying bride price to unborn children.
Source: MSF
The MSF duty surgeon in Yambio received a distress call from the maternity ward on a rainy Friday afternoon.
Source: MSF
On the bright morning of 3 November 2014, Adem, a 29-year-old mother of three arrived at the Yambio State Hospital's maternity ward with advanced labour pains.
Source: Morocco World News
The first Moroccan woman on the list is Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs & Cooperation, Mbarka Bouaida, who ranked 7th, followed by Fatiha Mejatti, the "black widow of Jihad" and a member of the Islamic State's (IS) media committee, who ranked 13th.
Source: Pri
South Africa's economy under apartheid put huge pressure on black families.
Source: The Guardian
From the Girl Declaration at the African Union (AU) Summit to Malala Yousafzai being the youngest person ever to win the Nobel Peace Prize, girls dominated 2014. Here are some of the most celebratory moments of the last year.
Source: The Guardian
What should be included in the sustainable development goals to promote women's equality and empowerment, and will they work ?
Source: AllAfrica
The year 2015 is symbolic for gender equality and women's empowerment for three reasons.
Source: Irish Times
A chilling picture of the challenges facing women's rights activists in Afghanistan has been given by a campaigner from there who is visiting Ireland.
Source: StarAfrica
Senegal's Minister of Women, Family and Child Protection, Mrs. Mariama Sarr, has commended the ECOWAS Commission for its initiatives in the promotion of gender equality and sustainable development within the region.
Source: Huffington Post
A pre-teen female player has attracted widespread attention with her fight to overturn a clerical ban on her right to play football alongside boys in a co-ed league. Backed by her parents, the player initially succeeded with an online and media campaign to force the clergy to lift the ban temporarily.
Source: Bloomberg
As the death toll from Ebola approaches 9,000 in West Africa, the illness has at least temporarily disrupted female genital mutilation, a centuries-old practice that brutally harms young girls.
Source: Pulse.ng
Founder and CEO of Africa's leading beauty brand, House of Tara international; Tara Fela Durotoye gets profiled on CNN's African Voices, a weekly show highlighting Africa's most engaging personalities and exploring the lives and passions of the people shaping it.
Source: AllAfrica
A Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), Asiwaju Freedom League (AFL), has concluded plans to embark on massive economic empowerment for African women and youths with a view to reducing poverty to the lowest level in the continent.
Source: AllAfrica
It is a pleasure to address the Women's International Forum this afternoon. I thank the President of the Forum, Sahar Baassiri Salam, for her kind introduction, and the previous President, Nareumon Sinhaseni , for extending the original invitation to me.
Source: AllAfrica
At the close of 2014, a new report by the World Economic Forum revealed that Rwanda is among the top ten, out of 142 countries that have achieved much in closing the gender gap.
Source: Times LIVE
The rising demand for Aids drugs, increasing failure of the 2.7 million South Africans on ARVs to take them properly, new infections among young women and dwindling funding threaten the advancements made last year that have brought down the infection rate.