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.
Source: Front Page Africa
Monrovia — President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has frowned on the increase in the incidences of rape in Liberia in recent times.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
MATERNAL mortality in the country remains a threat with majority of women dying of haemorrhage after failing to access blood which is being sold contrary to policy that requires it to be offered for free.
Source: U.S Department of State
Washington — The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Demographic and Health Surveys Program March 7 released a report that assesses gains in women's status and gender equality worldwide.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
IT happened in the middle of the night at Segerea, Ilala District in Dar es Salaam when the entire neighbourhood was dead silent.
Source: Addis Standard
A serious gender imbalance in global education has left over 100 million young women in low and lower middle income countries unable to read a single sentence, and will prevent half of the 31 million girls out of school from ever enrolling.
Around the world, female entrepreneurs are empowering other women to generate sustainable income while addressing the world's most pressing challenges. The Ghana Bamboo Bikes Initiative does it one high-quality bicycle at a time.
Source: IPS
There was a time when images from war zones featured only battlefields and barracks. As warfare moved into the 20th century, pictures of embattled urban centres and rural guerilla outposts began to make the rounds.
Source: The Observer
About one year ago, I was hosted on KFM radio with Rev Fr Simon Lokodo, minister of Ethics and Integrity. With us in the studio was his predecessor in the same ministry and the chief architect of the famous Anti-Pornography Act, Dr James Nsaba Buturo.
Source: ANGOP
The Angolan Government will this year implement various programmes aimed to improve the living conditions of rural women, said on Saturday in the south-western Namibe Province the writer, Ana Maria de Oliveira.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
The Dar es Salaam Commercial Bank (DCB) has set aside 8bn/- as a credit facility for 26,000 women entrepreneurs under Solidarity Group Landing (SGL) in the 2013/2014 financial year.
Source: The Star
Governor Amason Kingi has slashed his salary by 10 per cent. He said the cut will be diverted to development projects in the county. Kingi said the amount will specifically be used in supporting women’s projects in Kilifi.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
KiIimanjaro Region has been chosen by the government as a trial field for vaccination against cervical cancer. The exercise will be conducted on girls aged between nine and 13 years.