Source: South Sudan News Agency
Following our communique on the current crisis dated 7th January 2014, the cessation of hostilities agreement signed on the 23rd of January 2014, and the resumption of the second phase of the IGAD led peace talks,
Source: OSISA
Violence against women and children in Namibia is reaching critical proportions. Of late there have been some particularly horrific incidences of what are unfortunately termed 'passion killings'.
Source: BDlive
A SMALL contraceptive device installed under the skin will be made available free of charge to all women from next week, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi told MPs on Wednesday.
Source: The Star
Six groups of widows in Laikipia County have received money from an NGO to start a dairy goat rearing project. Wazaire for Wajane Foundation, which empowers widows, gave the groups Sh600,000.
Source: MISA Swaziland
Girls in Swaziland are yearning for women in positions of power to share knowledge and offer assistance, according to a Swazi Observer article the stemmed from a MISA and COSPE training session on women's rights.
Source: Leadership (Abuja)
No fewer than 3,583 widows in Katsina South Senatorial District of Katsina State, yesterday, received skills acquisition tools distributed by a philantropist, Umar Abdullahi Tata.
Source: The Observer
Opinion/Blog – We need to be worried. This month alone, at least three cases of murder of university girls have been reported in the different parts of the country.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
It was her not-so-good performance at Ordinary level that finally woke Dr Angela Bagenda to the need to take her education seriously against the odds. "The performance shocked me.
Source: Garowe Online
Women from the 17 districts of Mogadishu have staged anti-Al Shabaab protest in Mogadishu in support of lasting peace and tranquility across the war-ravaged nation on Sunday, Garowe Online reports.
Source: PRI
For women in the African nation of Malawi, giving birth brings a high risk of death. The predominantly rural country has long had one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world.
Source: South Africa Info
South Africa will make transdermal implant contraceptives freely available in the country's public clinics from next week, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced in Cape Town on Tuesday.
Source: Deutsch Welle
Three years ago Libya was hurtling headlong into the revolution that culminated in the death of Moammar Gadhafi. Although instrumental in the fall of the regime, women face mixed fates in the country of new men.
Source: Postcrecent
Tunisia's new constitution is the first one in the Arab world to guarantee equality between men and women - a milestone that might have been impossible without the efforts of people like Ahlem Belhadj, the country's most prominent feminist.
Source: IOL News
Tripoli - The Libyan government decided on Wednesday to recognise as "war victims" women who suffered sexual violence during the 2011 popular uprising that ousted and killed long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Source: Aljazeera
Human Rights Watch recently released a report documenting the torture and sexual abuse of women held in prisons in Iraq. Tragically, such reports are all too familiar. Stories of women raped and subjected to other forms of sexual violence in South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and Syria reinforce the common perception that sexual violence against
Source: Dar Es Salam
A research carried out by the Tanzania Media Women Association (Tamwa) has shown that gender violence is perpetrated notoriously in most Zanzibar Districts.
Source: All Africa
A Nigerian organization dedicated to promoting the rights of women in the country's legal systems has received a major award from an American foundation for its "outsized impact" in improving the lives of people and communities.
Source: Africa Renewal
Do land, seeds and crops have a gender? Perhaps they do in sub-Saharan Africa, where women produce up to 80% of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets, according to a report by the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). For crops such as rice, wheat and maize, which make up about 90% of food
Source: Premium Times
A former Minister of Women Affairs, Josephine Anenih, has suggested the castration of rapists to serve as a deterrent to men with such tendencies.
Source: Voice of America (VOA)
The head of the U.N. agency that fights for gender equality and the empowerment of women said Wednesday that women and children have borne the brunt of the conflict in South Sudan, and called for women to play a leading role at peace talks under way in Addis Ababa.