Source: The Namibian
The day Peggy Simpson, a former relief teacher at Aus, decided to leave her abusive husband, she says he dragged her behind a warehouse at her workplace, pushed her into a toilet, locked the door and cut her on the arms with razor blades.
Simpson, now 52, was one of the many who heeded President Hifikepunye Pohamba's call for praying against gender-based violence. She attended the prayer session on 6 March at the Sam Nujoma Stadium in Windhoek where The Namibian caught up with her.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
The Prime Minister, Mr Mizengo Pinda, has urged women who were nominated for the Woman-of-the-Year award 2013/2014 to continue with their efforts to impact on the rest of the country.
He made the call at the Woman-of-the-Year award gala at African Dream hall on the outskirts of Dodoma municipality. "You should continue shining as it is also a challenge keeping up the efforts you have been noted for ,"said the PM.
Source: The Herald
Government has urged banks to extend more loans to women entrepreneurs saying the Women's Development Fund was not sufficiently resourced. Women's Affairs, Gender and Community Development Minister Cde Oppah Muchinguri said the WDF had received US$750 000 rather than the anticipated US$2,5 million.
Women have difficulties in accessing bank loans as many do not have bankable collateral.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Statistics that a total of 5,157 girls dropped out of primary schools due to pregnancies last calendar year, mean so much to little Glades Mtiro.
Being a daughter of subsistence farmers, she grew up at Kange in Tanga, a flat and sparsely populated area. At 15, she met a man twice her age and cultivated a relationship. She then got pregnant.
Source: DW
Some 900 victims may have faced sexual attacks during Kenya's post-election violence in 2007. The perpetrators were never brought to justice. Some victims are now taking the government to court.
Source: IRIN NEWS
One-third of all pregnancies in Burkina Faso are unintended and a third of them end in abortion, according to a study published this month by the University of Ouagadougou and the reproductive health think tank Guttmacher Institute, which also found that more than 100,000 abortions were carried out in the country in 2012, most of them performed in unsafe
Source: SW Radio Africa
The deteriorating economic situation in Zimbabwe is exacerbating violence against women and children, leading historian Pathisa Nyathi has said.
Source: ADB
According to Leila Farah El-Mokaddem, the African Development Bank's new Resident Representative in Egypt, "the economic empowerment of women is a hidden opportunity for our continent. Women constitute what we call 'smart economics.' By expanding income generation to both women and men, families are collectively better off, while the economy is more productive resulting in an overall win-win situation."
Source: IBTIMES
Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is the worst place to be a mother, according to a report by Save the Children.
DRC, which was also ranked by the UN as the worst place to be a woman in 2013, has been ravaged by war for nearly 20 years, and the effects are clearly evident in the plight of the country's female population.
Source: AWID
The declaration, released in Washington on Wednesday, comes in the context of a 20-year review by the United Nations of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo. That landmark conference called for safe access to abortions in countries where the procedure was legal, while Wednesday's declaration calls for the
Source: UN Women
The needs of women and girls are increasingly being reflected in how governments spend in Morocco and a new organic law of finance passed in January 2014 by the Council of Government has cemented gender throughout the budgeting process.
Source: Trust
YAOUNDE (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Elizabeth Maimo, a 52-year-old farmer in Santa in Cameroon's Northwest Region, has struggled since custom dictated she surrender her piece of family land in 2012 to her younger brother, a herder, who wanted more space to breed cows.
Source: Destiny Connect
Mining magnate Daphne Mashile-Nkosi has proven that she can rule Africa's male-dominated industry with an iron fist
Known to many as the "iron lady" of Mzansi's male-dominated mining industry, it's no wonder the spotlight fell on Daphne Mashile-Nkosi when she was recently announced as CEO of the Year at the African CEO Forum held in Geneva,
Source: The Daily Observer
The African Women Foundation for Nation Building (WINB) has made another appointment, this time picking the Nigerian ambassador to The Gambia and the current dean of Diplomatic Corps in Banjul as member of its Board of Governance, the Daily Observer has gathered.
Source: The Herald
Women should be acknowledged for their major role in farming and household and national food security, Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development Minister Dr Joseph Made has said.
Source: Daily Trust
Experts in maternal health continue to push for statutory review of deaths in pregnant women and mothers in efforts to account for the life of every mother, but insist political will is lacking.
Source: PR Newswire
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Worldwide — International Effort Includes Globe-athon "STEPtember" Pledge to take 10,000 steps a Day for Gynecological Cancer Awareness
Source: The Herald
President Mugabe has called for a nationwide campaign against abuse of women and children, saying imposition of stiffer penalties on perpetrators alone is insufficient to curb the crime.
Source: The Observer
Women have been urged to prepare themselves for business opportunities by getting market information to compete for the same jobs with men.
Source: The Daily Observer
The executive director of Action Aid International The Gambia, Ousman Badjie has said that Action Aid has ensured that its development agenda and interventions impact positively on the lives of people living in poverty, and that development is sustainable, relevant and appropriate to the lives and livelihoods of the poor,