Source: All Africa
Africa can boost its growth by a third and generate an "economic miracle" if it invests enough in the younger generation, says a top United Nations official tasked with promoting health and equal opportunities for the world's people.
Photographer, blogger and poet Nana Kofi Acquah uses his travels around Africa to chronicle the lives of women at their most accomplished and at their most vulnerable.
Source: Voice of America
Women's and civil society groups are criticizing a member of Ghana's parliament for calling for women who commit adultery to be stoned or hanged.
Source: Spy Ghana
Closing the gender gap in agriculture would accelerate significant economic gains in developing countries, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has said.
Source: The Telegraph
Set in 1,000 acres of lush grassland, the sprawling campus of the American University of Nigeria represents everything that the Islamist militants of Boko Haram oppose. Since opening a decade ago, its stated aim for its 1,400 students is to provide a US-standard education for "Nigeria's and Africa's future leaders" – be they Christian or Muslim, male or female.
Source: The Independent
Mayiga Abdullah is a paedophile. He openly admits to it. And when he's told that in the UK he would be in prison and on the Sex Offenders' Register, he laughs.
Source: i24 News
Egypt launched its first feminist comic-strip magazine, the London-based al -Sharq al-Awsat reported Friday.
Source: The Daily Vox
One a scale of one to patriarchal, how far back is the Ministry of Women setting South African women?
Source: Star Africa
The White Ribbon Alliance (WRA) in Malawi, a grouping that advocates for safe motherhood and welfare of nurses and midwives has petitioned the government over the increasing deaths of women during pregnancy and child birth.
Source: Mail & Guardian
It is 12.30pm and an older woman emerges from her tiny mud house. A younger woman is making some porridge outside.
Source: OnIslam
Malawi Muslim women are mobilizing themselves to advocate for the enforcement of harsher penalties against perpetrators of Gender Based Violence (GBV), seeing them as the only means to minimize escalating rates of the social problem.
Source: Aljazeera
Darfur no longer grabs the headlines as it falls out of favour as a cause celebre yet the atrocities, especially against women, haven't stopped.
Source: Voice of America
Medical experts say cervical cancer continues to be the leading cause of cancer related deaths in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Source: Sci Dev Net
African governments must place rural women farmers at the apex of agricultural research and scientific innovation to achieve sustainable development and economic growth, a conference has heard.
Source: Harrison Daily Voice
Mary Grace Henry, a Harrison resident and student at the Convent of the Sacred Heart in Greenwich, has recently been presented with the World of Children Award for providing education to children in Sub-Saharan Africa.
Source: Amnesty International UK
Life sentences proposed for the 'crime' of homosexuality.
Source: The Daily Observer
A deputy permanent secretary at the Office of the Vice President has reaffirmed that the government of The Gambia has amply demonstrated its commitment to peace and security by ratifying international conventions and enacting national laws and policies to ensure the protection of women's rights and their empowerment.
Source: The Sunday Independent
Fourteen years ago, 189 nations of the world, among them South Africa, signed a pledge that would turn into what we now know as the UN Millenium Development Goals. They would become the cornerstone with which we measure development, especially in the global south, where millions were, and continue to be, affected by extreme poverty.
Source: Swazi Observer
Lowering the number of girls and women who are infected by HIV is key to ending the epidemic in Swaziland. Worldwide, women account for half of people living with HIV and AIDS, and in Swaziland the figure is more than half.
Source: All Africa
Botswana is targeting men in the police services, armed forces and prisons in a campaign to tackle violence against women, a government official said on Tuesday.