Source: Vanguard
Dr. Ada Chenge is a renowned politician in Benue State and presently, the only female gubernatorial aspirant in the contest for the 2015 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP gubernatorial ticket.
Source: The New Times
Hundreds of Rwandan women took part in the 'One Billion Rising for Justice Walk last week.One Billion Rising is a global campaign seeking to end all forms of violence against women and girls.
Source: Sudan Tribune
(KHARTOUM) – An 18-year-old Ethiopian woman who said she was gang raped by seven men in Sudan has been found guilty of committing indecent acts and is also facing a possible jail term for immigration offences.
Source: Sudan Tribune
Khartoum — An 18-year-old Ethiopian woman, who was gang raped by seven men in Sudan, is facing a possible death sentence after being charged with adultery and prostitution.
Source: This Day
The Lagos State Government has given the statistics of maternal mortality recorded in its public health facilities between 2010 and 2012 to be 714 women.
Source: The Star
Former MP and new chair of the Anti-Female Genital Mutilation board Linah Kilimo attended the launch of a new campaign to fight the vice at the Panafric Hotel in Nairobi last Thursday evening.
Source: allAfrica
Bukoba — RESIDENTS in Kagera Region have been urged to make use of the Police Gender Unit and report incidents of gender based violence.
Source: The World Bank
Washington — The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved support to Togo that will help the country offer lifesaving health and nutrition services to over 1.3 million people, nearly 60 percent of whom are women and girl children under the age of five.
Source: New Era
WINDHOEK – The Women's Action for Development (WAD) has joined a call by the National Council's women's caucus for President Hifikepunye Pohamba to declare "a state of emergency" on gender-based violence (GBV).
"Her (Margaret Mensah-Williams, deputy speaker of the National Council) foresight is commendable and slots in perfectly
Source: The Independent
The rate at which Ugandan women are dying from unsafe abortion is alarming, Dr. Charles Kiggundu, one of Uganda's leading Gnaecologists and Obstetricians has said.
Source: This Day Live
NECA's Network of Entrepreneurial Women (NNEW) in conjunction with a coalition of women associations representing over 1.5 million members Tuesday called on the federal government to increase the number of women participants at the forthcoming national conference.
Tanzania Media Women's Association (Tamwa) will today, launch a Gender-Based Violence (GBV) survey report which was conducted in December last year in 20 districts on Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar.
Source: New Era
The Minister of Information, Communication and Technology (MICT), Joel Kaapanda, yesterday decried the latest spate of barbaric murders targeting Namibian women.
We have all reasons to celebrate the birth of a new legal regime that will regulate and provide for the rights and responsibilities of spouses in relation to matrimonial property.
Source: The Herald
Zimbabwe is among five countries in Africa south of the Sahara that have made significant progress in gender parity, the latest World Bank report on gender equality says. Improvements in gender equality were noted in legislation on domestic violence, property ownership between men and women, the Constitution, employment rights, general discrimination and equality in business, politics and the social arena.
Low Level of Contraceptive Use in the Country Fuels High Rate of Unintended Pregnancy.
Source: VibeGhana
A total of 1,000 young urban girls aged between 15 and 24 in the Tamale Metropolis are to benefit from an economic, reproductive health and information and communication technology (ICT) empowerment initiative by the Northern Sector Action on Awareness (NORSAAC).
Source: Vanguard
The Senate President, Sen. David Mark, on Monday in Abuja said that women were underrepresented in all political structures in Nigeria.
A group of United Nations human rights experts today urged Kenya to repeal sections of the Marriage and Property Act which effectively deny women the right to marital property upon divorce or death of their spouse, unless they can prove they made a contribution to the acquisition of the property during their marriage.
Source: The Observer
A Village court in Masaka has sentenced a 39-year-old woman to six months in jail after finding her 'guilty' of infecting five teenage boys with Aids.