Source: Nigerian Tribume The Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development is to partner with the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), to ensure the inclusion of Nigerian women in the financial system, by promoting financial inclusion through their various initiatives, such as the N220 billion Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund (MSMEDF) as well as their Agricultural Financing Scheme.
Source: Daily News
KAGERA women have been advised to breastfeed their babies for at least three years to enable their children have strong immunity against various diseases including Asthma.
Source: Leadership
Nigerian troops during the week arrested three suspected female terrorists who have been secretly recruiting women into the female wing of the terrorist group, Boko Haram.
Source: Leadership
About 63 out of the 68 women that were abducted two weeks ago from three villages of Borno State by Boko Haram gunmen have escaped from captivity and made their way back to their homes, witnesses and security officials have said.
Source: allAfrica
A MEDIA report has it that three girls aged 13 and 14 recently fled to a local church for protection against perpetrators of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM).
Source: The Guardian
Friday 4 July: Independence Day. There will be speeches, celebrations and fireworks. But these celebrations will be taking place on the other side of the world from the US, because on Friday, the central African country of Rwanda will mark its own Liberation Day.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
The year 2014 marks a very significant step towards building a fairer world for men and women. This year we begin a year-long celebration ahead of the 20th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action in 2015. This platform provided the framework to help countries devise public policies to push gender equality forward. We can see substantial progress across different fields.
Source: IPS News
Every year, three million newborn babies and almost 6.6 million children under five die globally, but if the rest of the world looked towards the examples of two of Africa's least-developed countries (LDCs), Rwanda and Ethiopia, they would perhaps be able to save these children.
Source: Frontline Defenders
On 24 June 2014, the Ministry of Justice cancelled the registration license of human rights organisation the Salmmah Women's Resource Centre, and initiated the immediate liquidation of the organisation, leading to its closure on the same day.
Source: Thomas Reuters Foundation
In parts of Malawi, when a girl reaches puberty she may receive a night-time visit from a “hyena” – the name given to an older man who has sex with girls to “clean out the dust” of childhood and prepare them for marriage.
Source: Northumberland Gazette
A north Northumberland woman has just returned from a life-changing voluntary placement in west Africa.
Source: The Guardian
Rwanda has gone from a disaster zone to a country determined to move on – and it's women driving forward the peace process.
Source: KC Team
The defaulter's club in Kenya is not like any other club - it is a growing movement of teenagers born with HIV who deliberately take 'holidays' from their life-saving medication.
Source: Voice of America
The United Nations says gender-based violence against Central African Republic refugees in East Cameroon is very high and is calling on the government in Yaounde to do more to protect these vulnerable women.
Source: The NewTimes
Involving more women in decision-making has been important in Rwanda's meteoric rise two decades after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, experts attending the ongoing Women In Parliament Summit have said.
Source: HuffigtonPost
Nigerian troops have arrested a businessman suspected of being at the head of a Boko Haram intelligence network that helped plan the abduction of more than 200 school girls in the northeast, the military said on Tuesday.
Source: The Herald
Women'S Affairs, Gender and Community Development Minister Oppah Muchinguri (pictured right) has raised concern over the failure by fellow ministers to observe the 50-50 representation in the appointment of parastatal boards.
Source: PMNCH
Prime Minister Erna Solberg of Norway, Co-chair of the MDG Advocates Group, and Graça Machel, Chair of The Partnership for Maternal, Newborn & Child Health (PMNCH), joined world leaders and the reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health (RMNCH) community to review progress toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals focused on women and children's health, and to identify targets for healthy women and children for the post-2015 sustainable development agenda.
Source: National Yemen
Produced for Yemeni TV, short film raises awareness of the issues surrounding women and the security and justice sector in Yemen.
Source: BusinessGhana
World Bank Group's Board of Executive Directors has approved US$107 million in financial grants to the countries of Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and Rwanda to provide integrated health and counseling services, legal aid, and economic opportunities, to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). The project will also strengthen health services for poor and vulnerable women in Africa's Great Lakes region.