Source: The New Times
Women from several social groups in Kigali have welcomed a new project that seeks to teach them multimedia skills in video and photography.
Source: Bloomberg
Marie Odie strokes a purple cocoa pod, sizing it up, before she walks on through the trees on her plantation in central western Ivory Coast. After four years of hard work, she's about to pick her first harvest.
Source: Reuters
Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party confirmed President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace as the new head of its women's wing at a congress on Saturday, underlining her swift political rise in the troubled southern African country.
Source: Sahara Reporters
Queen mothers in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana have unanimously called on the country's parliament not to pass the Plant Bleeders Bill.
Source: Ghana Web
Following the article dated April 8, 2014 by the Ghana News Agency on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) practices in the Upper East Region which was based on a research from Action Aid Ghana and the Belim Wasa Development Agency; the Coalition of Women in Governance (COWIG) has also investigated a report by a victim and attest to the fact that the practice is still prevailing in that part of the Country.
The African Union’s (AU) Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security says she will lead a delegation to meet with mothers of the abducted Chibok school girls in Nigeria. Militants from the radical Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped over 200 girls from Chibok nearly eight months ago.
Source: Voice of America
The African Union's (AU) Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security says she will lead a delegation to meet with mothers of the abducted Chibok school girls in Nigeria. Militants from the radical Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped over 200 girls from Chibok nearly eight months ago.
Source: Deseret News
The ongoing Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa has fueled pessimism and led many commentators to declare that these nations are beyond help and hope.
Source: Daily Independent
Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh has unveiled her Charity Foundation to be known as the Tonto Dikeh Foundation.
Source: UN News
More than half-way through an international campaign to end violence against women, a top United Nations expert on the issue is calling for a binding international legal standard that holds Member States accountable in fighting this widespread human rights violation.
Source: Yahoo News
The huge negative impact of violence against women and girls on the global economy gives international financial institutions a unique role to play in ending it, a new guide on the issue said.
Source: StarAfrica
The head of the European Union mission in Banjul has poured encomiums on what she called Gambia's progress in the protection of women's rights.
Source: Daily Maverick
"A few days ago, I was at a community meeting... We were under a tree."
Source: New Vision
At least 800 abortions are carried out every day in Uganda.
Source: Times Live
Free State legislature speaker Sisi Mabe was a strong woman, brilliant and yet humble, the legislature's spokesman Life Mokone said on Monday.
Source: The Daily Beast
Domestic violence against women may actually be a cause of war—so how do we disrupt the vicious cycle that propels young men into battle?
Source: The Nigerian Observer
IT is a deliberate and collaborative effort to trigger voluntary personal actions and catalyze behavior change across African communities on gender violence through aggressive public education, awareness creation and youth engagement/capacity building activities
Source: Deutsche Welle
Fartuun Adan has spent decades campaigning for the rights of traumatized women in war-torn Somalia. Germany's Friedrich Ebert Foundation is awarding her its Human Rights Prize.
Source: Daily Maverick
The economic empowerment of women in Africa, and globally, is one of the key strategies in advancing women's rights and liberating them from intergenerational cycles of poverty and dependence.
Source: Leadership Newspapers
While some West-African countries are still battling the scourge of the Ebola virus and Nigeria is still basking in the euphoria of winning the war against the virus, HIV/AIDS still remains a major health pandemic insidiously affecting children, youths and women in our country; dangerously reaching epidemic proportions.