Source: RNW
A Ugandan blogger argues that war crimes against women are rooted in a security struggle that women have to deal with day to day.
Source: News 24
Two dozen men in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have launched a group to fight for women's rights in the region, which has been called the worst place in the world to be a woman.
Source: Financial Times
Mobile airtime is as precious to Lucia Njelekele as the chicks that are her livelihood. The poultry farmer relies on her mobile phone: for real-time information about demand for her 3,000 livestock from one of Tanzania's biggest supermarkets; to arrange transport; source feed; and consult her vet.
Source: PM News
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation, UNESCO, is showing serious concern that an estimated 100 million girls and young women in low and middle income countries cannot even read a single sentence.
Source: The Observer
As Uganda celebrated the International Women's day at the weekend, three Ugandans were listed for awards by Women Deliver, a global advocacy organisation.
Source: New Security Beat
"If there was a perfect slum, Kibera would be it." The notoriously overcrowded and underserved settlement in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi captivates the public imagination, engendering visions of urban violence, poverty, and hopelessness, said Caroline Wanjiku Kihato of the University of the Witwatersrand at the Wilson Center on February 18.
Source: World Bank
The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved funds to help Gabon diversify its economy and reduce poverty by improving the business environment and fostering the development of small and medium-size enterprises (SME).
Source: IPS
Dunwaa Soayare, 45, a smallholder farmer, widow and mother of five had the sort of economic profile that meant she was denied access to credit from Ghana's mainstream banking institutions.
Source: IPS
Ireland's former President Mary Robinson has been working hard to include women from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and the Great Lakes Region in the regional peacebuilding process. Because without their involvement, she says, peace and security in the region will be unrealistic.
Source: Africa Business Communities
Liberian President Sirleaf welcomes women’s call for equal protection to land, asks women to do more: “Stand up and be accounted for.”
Source: World Economic Forum
Being an entrepreneur is at the heart of who I am. It is in my blood. I had a chance to prove it at college in 2010, when our entrepreneurship professor challenged us to stop searching for non-existent white-collar jobs and create our own self-employment opportunities instead.
Source:This Day
The Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Hajiya Zainab Maina, yesterday expressed disappointment over inadequate laws to punish perpetrators of gender-based violence.
Source: Vanguard
As part of the events marking this year’s International Women’s Day, the First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, has honoured some “women-friendly leaders” of the Ogun State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
Standing in front of her family's small hut at Manerumango in Kisarawe District, Amina Adam, 16, cuddles his one-year old baby who looks hungry and pale.
Source:Tanzania Daily News
Women in Mwanza have hailed the Population Services International (PSI) for its initiatives to introduce cervical cancer and cryotherapy screening services in order to reduce maternal mortality in the region.
Source:Daily Trust
As part of activities to mark this year's International Women's Day, a women rights group, Women Deliver, has awarded seed grants of $50,000 each to 10 young people to support projects aimed at advancing girls' and women's health and rights in their communities.
Source:Southern Africa News Features
The holding of elections in southern Africa and the rest of the African continent has always created some interesting reading.
Source: Gender Links
The 58th of the Commission of the Status of Women (CSW58) started yesterday at the United Nations Headquarters in New York with participants calling for accelerated efforts to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) before 2015 and a stronger post-2015 agenda.
Source: Front Page Africa
Monrovia — Internal Affairs Minister Morris Dukuly has commended members of the Liberian Senate for passing the Bill providing for Gender Parity in government.
Source: UN News Centre
As the 2014 session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women got under way today, the head of the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) spotlighted the agency's joint efforts with the World Bank to address the multidimensional challenges that women and girls face in Africa's Great Lakes and Sahel regions.