Source: The Star
Members of a women group in Kitui West subcounty have protested against plans to grab their two-acre plot at Kabati trading centre. The women said land brokers are targeting the land, which they have owned for 25 years.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Women are crusaders when it comes to poverty alleviation, and this is evident in their income generating groups and their struggle to free themselves from depending on their husbands.
Some of these groups are registered and are thus eligible for loans from financial institutions.
However, due to bureaucracy and unfriendly conditions given by the lenders, many women find it easier to organize themselves in informal groups, based on mutual trust.
Source: Angola Press
The countries of the Portuguese Speaking Community (CPLP) are well advanced in terms of women protection policies, but more should be done to ensure equality in other countries, particularly in those of the Arab world.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Moshi — THE Tanzania Women Research Foundation (TAWREF) has called on Constituent Assembly (CA) members to drum up support for, and ultimately endorse women rights in the new constitution.
Source: The Star
The 47 county women's representatives have opposed a move to amend the constitution to scrap their positions. The MPs Cecilia Ng'etich (Bomet), Florence Waingah (Busia), Wanjiku Muhia (Nyandarua), Annah Nyokabi (Kiambu) and Mary Seneta (Kajiado) have urged the executive to deal end corruption in the national and county governmens in form of shoddy deals in the tendering of national projects.
Source: Aswat Masriya
MINYA, March 17 (Aswat Masriya) A group of young Egyptians launched a campaign against sexual harassment in the city of Minya, South of Cairo, on Monday to mark the national day for women.
Source: Voice Of America
Pretoria — Judge Thokozile Masipa is a central figure in Oscar Pistorius' murder trial. She talks softly, but carries a big stick.
Source: The Star
KISUMU women's representative Rose Nyamunga has said the county will establish a revolving fund to eradicate poverty and promote the girls' education.
Source: The Namibian
THE Ministry of Gender Equality and Child Welfare (MGECW) will embark on a sensitisation programme against gender-based violence next month, including the observance of 365 days of activism.
Source: Heritage
Ahead of the holding of a special senatorial mid-term election throughout the country, women of Liberia are not taking the process as a joke, despite challenges and intimidation from some of their male counterparts.
Source: East African Business Week
Nairobi — Kenya's Capital Markets Authority (CMA) is reviewing the Code of Corporate Governance that will among other things make sure women representation on boards of public listed companies is legalised.
Source: This Day Live
In a manner that is quite unprecedented, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has intensified its drive to boost the economic empowerment of women in a move aimed at enabling financial inclusion, poverty reduction and deepening of the nation's capital market.
Source: The New York Times
When Zineb lost her father at the age of 15, her grief was compounded when she learned that she had to share his inheritance with an older half-brother unknown to her or her mother and sister.
"It felt unfair to split it with him," said Zineb, 29, a teacher in Rabat who asked that her full name not be used because as a political activist she is concerned about her safety. "Somebody was parachuted into your life and we didn't know him and after all, my mom worked for half of all of that money."
Source: Daily News Egypt
Each year, governments, journalists, development experts and others look forward to the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report. The report includes a ranking of countries based on life expectancy, literacy, quality of life and so on. Once it is released, governments and citizens of countries with high rankings immediately trumpet their achievements. Those with lower rankings, such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which was last in 2013 in Africa, come in for criticism.
Source: MWC News
Cameroon is suffering under an "anti-homosexuals apartheid," a lawyer who has spent a decade defending gays and lesbians in the West African nation, where same-sex relations are illegal, has said.
"When a country uses weapons, the police and all available legal and prison means against a section of its population, while it has a commitment to protect," it is apartheid, Alice Nkom told the AFP news agency in an interview.
Source: The Independent
In a dusty field, a mile outside the town of Bobo-Dioulasso in western Burkina Faso, a fully equipped new hospital stands idle. Astonishingly, the Minister of Health for this, one of the poorest countries in the world, refuses to allow it to open. The sign outside the hospital advertises that it was built by a charity called Clitoraid and the hospital is known as The Pleasure Hospital. And therein lies the problem.
The initiative for Clitoraid and the Pleasure Hospital comes from the Raëlians, a bizarre religious sect who believe in UFOs, and that the purpose of life is the pursuit of pleasure. The sect claims it launched Clitoraid after learning that more than 100 million women in Africa had been genitally mutilated – a process that denies women sexual pleasure and gives them excruciating pain during intercourse and in childbirth. They raised £250,000 to build the hospital, mainly from donors in California and Canada.
Source: Oman Daily Observer
A new initiative has India partnering with African countries to empower African women by developing skills that already exist within them.
Displayed in the middle of corporates and surrounded by technology companies, engineering as well as IT solution providers at the exhibition being held as part of the 10th CII-EXIM Bank Conclave on India-Africa Project Partnership here, is the India-Africa Craft Design Initiative that aims at supporting women in Africa.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Do women believe that men are justified when they beat them for whatever mistake they made? In a reaction to this question, the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) which compiles data from around the world suggests that there is a percentage of women in Tanzania who take positively this punishment from their husbands.
The DHS data which can be accessed on www.statcompiler.com. made a survey on issues like when the wife burns the food in the kitchen , argues with the husband, neglects the children, or refuses to have sex with him or if she attempts to question him for going out without telling her.
Source: Radio VOP
Mention African women and security, and thoughts likely dash to the many wars, past and present, across the continent. This is because of mass crimes committed specifically against women, not least the waves of sexual violence in eastern Congo, Darfur, Kenya during 2007’s post-election violence, Liberia, Sierra Leone and now Central African Republic.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Airtel Tanzania has handed over 5m/- to the organisers of the Mwanamakuka award - the unit women friends, during the Award event held in Dar es Salaam this weekend.
Mwanamakuka Award 2014 involved 10 women who participated and won in year 2012 and 2013 respectively, the winners were required to write short success story and show case their business achievements were the overall winner to be rewarded cash prize for her business, during the event Leila Mwambungu was announced the winner of Mwanamakuka Award 2014.