Source: World Economic Forum
In 2012, Nigeria introduced the National Financial Inclusion Strategy (NFIS) and promoted it as a key driver in becoming one of the world's largest economies.
Source: UN News Centre
Violence against women and girls is a global pandemic that destroys lives, fractures communities and holds back development, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said as the world body today marked the International Day to End Violence against Women.
Source: UNHCR
UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres on Tuesday condemned child marriage and said his organization must do its utmost to help stop the practice, which affects an estimated 15 million girls every year.
Source: The New Times
The Interpol 'Turn Back Crime' global campaign was officially launched in Rwanda yesterday with a call to the public to cooperate with security organs to prevent crime.
Source: ABC News
A 14-year-old Nigerian child bride is accused of murdering four people, including her 35-year-old husband, by lacing food she had prepared for a post-marriage celebration with rat poison.
Source: Mail & Guardian
November 25 marks the beginning of the 16 Days of No Violence Against Women Campaign.
Source: Nigerian Observer
THERE are many definitions of women empowerment. To some persons it is the process of strengthening the existing capacities and capabilities of disadvantaged groups in society so as to enable them perform towards improving themselves, their families and the society as a whole.
Source: Bloomberg
BP Plc (BP/)'s South African unit sold a 25 percent stake in the business to two black-owned partners that will give the new investors voting rights in the oil producer's local operations.
Source: All Africa
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, on Tuesday called on the National Assembly to pass the Violence Against Persons Prohibition (VAPP) bill, Sexual Offences bill and other anti-discriminatory bills before the expiration of the 7th assembly.
Source: All Africa
Sohair el-Batea died after her father took her to a rural Egyptian doctor to have her genitals cut. The two men are the first to go on trial under Egypt's FGM ban, which could be a turning point.
Source: Middle East Monitor
Dozens of Moroccan women protested in front of parliament in Rabat on Tuesday, demanding protection from violence and harassment, as well as legal protection for their dignity.
Source: The New York Times
Two decades ago, when Ann Cotton, a British educator and philanthropist, started examining the problem of low school enrollment among girls in rural Zimbabwe, she was struck by the crushing poverty, which to her presented an even bigger obstacle to girls' education than tradition.
Source: Daily Times
A Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), Journalists Against AIDS (JAAIDS) has urged the government and stakeholders to work together on gender issues to prevent discrimination and stigmatisation.
Source: The Globalist
Shaimaa Yehia, 28, is a violinist with the Al Nour Wal Amal orchestra, a 40-strong ensemble of blind women from Cairo. The orchestra, which plays a full range of string and wind instruments, is run by the Al Nour Wal Amal Association, an Egyptian non-governmental organization that takes in blind girls from Cairo's poor.
Source: Medical Daily
Not many people in America are aware that in some countries, a girl might be killed because her wedding dowry wasn't good enough. Or that victims of sexual abuse are often blamed for the crimes of their perpetrators, and punished by being stoned to death.
Source: Public Radio Interntional
Many South African women who came of age under an apartheid government are still active in the fight for their rights. But no longer is the main issue race. Now, women and girls across the country are in a fierce struggle against gender inequality.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A surge in reports of rape, torture and kidnapping of girls in Tanzania shows that the introduction of specialist units in police stations is giving survivors confidence to report these crimes, a senior official has said.
Source: Slate
With all of the news about Ebola's rapid, dispiriting spread through West Africa, you may have missed an encouraging public health development: The continent appears tantalizingly close to fully eradicating polio, once one of the world's most feared and destructive diseases.
Source: UNDP
Liberia could experience negative GDP growth for the first time since the war ended 11 years ago unless urgent action is taken to stimulate the economy.
Source: Eyewitness News
Following the recent release of videos on the internet showing a women being stripped and beaten, women and men from countries across Africa attended the 9th Africa Regional Conference on Women Beijing +20 Review in Addis Ababa.