Source: The Star
Many counties are still practising Female Genital Mutilation, the Anti- FGM Board has said. The board's chairperson Jebii Kilimo said FGM is practised extensively in Pokot, Marakwet, Baringo and Narok counties.
Source: Leadership
Abuja — As 2015 creeps in, the Coalition of Civil Society Organisations of Nigeria has challenged Nigerian women to build on successes recorded in recent past and ensure they vie for more and higher elective offices in 2015.
Source: East African Business Week
Kigali — She survived the horrific 1994 Genocide, but since then her livelihood has depended on showing self-initiative, hard work and an appreciation for learning new skills.
Source: News24
Abuja — THE Ministry of Women Affairs and Social Development is hopeful the Widows' Empowerment Scheme would address the plight of such women in the country.
Source: 24Tanzania
A total of 97 female Police officers who returned home last week after successfully completing a one-year peacekeeping mission under the United Nations African Union Hybrid Mission in Darfur (Unamid) have been commended for their professional conduct and discipline exhibited during their mission.
Source: Daily Trust
The women wing of Nasrul-lahi Fathi Society of Nigeria (NASFAT) in Kwara State yesterday staged a peaceful protest over the abduction of over 200 female students of Government Girls Secondary School, Chibok, Borno State and other acts of violence by insurgents in parts of the country.
Source: The Namibian
ELEVEN incidents of rape were reported countrywide over the Easter weekend, including that of a five-year-old.
Source: Policymic
"We're gathered to celebrate Women's History Month, but I don't celebrate Women's History Month," announced writer Mona Charen, one of the panelists at the Heritage Foundation's recent panel on feminism and happiness.
Source: Voice of America
Abuja — More than five days after the abduction of more than 100 teenage girls in Northeastern Nigeria, 85 girls remain missing, believed to be deep within a dangerous forest.
Source: The Daily Observer
The National Enterprise Development Initiative (NEDI) recently presented fertiliser, vegetable products to different youth and women groups, at a presentation ceremony held at NEDI office.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
MATERNAL mortality and morbidity remain a critical global problem. In 2010, estimates suggests that globally there were 287,000 maternal deaths-- down from 543,000 in 1990.
Source: the New Times
The Ministry of Gender and Family Promotion has said that it was on course to fully implement all programmes for which funds were allocated in the 2013/2014 national budget.
Source: The Observer (Kampala)
Police in the eastern district of Iganga recently arrested a 40-year old father who allegedly married off his eight-year-old daughter to her 32-year-old primary teacher for Shs 300,000 and a rooster.
Source: Times of Zambia
APPROXIMATELY every two minutes, a woman dies during pregnancy or child birth. However, most of the causes of maternal deaths are highly preventable. In Zambia alone, there are an estimated 600,000 births, with about 2,600 maternal deaths and about 20,200 infant mortalities.
The United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) presented a new Continent-Wide Initiative on Gender Equality and Women's Empowerment at the Seventh Joint Annual Meeting of the Economic Commission for Africa Conference of African Ministers of Finance, Planning and Economic Development and the African Union Conference of Ministers of Economy and Finance in Abuja, Nigeria, from 25 to 30 March 2014.
A traditional two-year mourning period for widows during which women are expected to be confined and not work, is meeting growing resistance in Swaziland.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
THE government has achieved tremendous success in enforcing various international and regional conventions in the fight against the discrimination of women and children.
Progress on gender equality is being eroded by new laws that violate the constitution and indoctrinate discrimination. News of the death of a 13-year-old girl from Kajiado in southern Kenyaafter she underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) brings to mind another 12-year-old Maasai girl, Sasiano Nchoe, who died in very similar circumstances after undergoing FGM in 2008.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
LACK of adequate family planning education is the reason for insufficient resources among many families, resulting in unwanted pregnancies and maternal death.
Source: Gender Links
Economic dependency has been cited as one of the causes for gender based violence (GBV), whose many victims and/ or survivors are women. It is often cited as the reason that forces women to stay in abusive relationships or marriages because they feel they cannot survive without an income from their spouses or male relations.