Source: Daily Trust
Female parliamentarians in the House of Representatives yesterday resolved to canvass for more elective offices for women politicians ahead of the 2015 elections.
Source:Angola Press
Speaking to Angop, the municipal director of Family and Women Promotion department, Paula Loureiro stated that besides entrepreneurship, actions to fight gender illiteracy are being developed.
Source: Daily News
The Tanzania Women Bank (TWB) has signed a contract with Kishen Enterprises Limited, in a deal that seeks to empower and create employment to the youth across the country.
Source: Premium Times
An Abuja-based NGO, Society Against Prostitution and Child Labour in Nigeria (SAP-CLN), in collaboration with Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) have elected to embark on a controversial campaign to rid Nigeria's capital city of prostitutes. But it seems the campaign is being waged on the wrong side of the law following allegations of abuses and highhandedness, which grossly violate the provisions of Nigeria's Constitution.
Source: The Herald
Women are failing to break into the lucrative mining sector, with figures showing that they constitute just 5 percent of small-scale miners in Zimbabwe.The chief executive officer of Gold Miners Association of Zimbabwe, Mr Irvin Chinyenze, noted with concern that women were not keen on mining because of the strenuous nature of the work.
Source: The Observer
Hajjat Halima Nasuuna is one of many women who make a living from cross-border trade. Often, she travels from one country to another in the region vending crafts such as baskets, mats, and belts.
Source: East Africa Business Week
The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) in Tanzania has called on the government and communities to step up efforts to end Female Genital Mutilation that has cost more than 125 million girls and women in Africa and Middle East.
Source: ACNS
Scores of female church workers were massacred last month as they sought refuge at a church in the central South Sudanese town of Bor.
The women, several of whom were elderly, had fled rebel attacks to hide in the St. Andrew's Episcopal Church compound, when rebels descended on them, raping several of them before shooting them at close range.
Source: Malawi News Agency
Senior Chief Kapeni of Blantyre District has ordered all village headmen in his area not to entertain underage marriages in their areas as doing so could promote immoral behaviours among youths.
The Senior Chief sounded the warning on Friday in Lunzu, Blantyre during the formal handover ceremony of Aquaid Primary School to the Government.
Senior Kapeni admitted that there are cases of under-age marriages in his jurisdiction hence has ordered the village headmen to refer all those in underage marriages to school.
"I am impressed with how Aquaid Lifeline is carrying out its operations in my areas. The school which is private is offering free primary education to all children here.
"My appeal to all children is to utilise the opportunity that Aquaid organization has offered to them and avoid taking the opportunity for granted.
"To all village headmen who are here, make sure that there is no underage marriages in your communities," reiterated the senior chief.
Kapeni said it is possible for a woman to be educated noting that what is important to girls is to refrain from immoral behaviours.
Senior Chief Kapeni advised girls to be role models in their respective places and should grow with spiritual life.
"I don't want to see marriages of underage boys and girls in my area. Boys and girls aged 13 or 14 are not supposed to be in marriages," added Kapeni.
Kapeni said he is not the first person to bar underage marriages saying in some places they have already started doing so.
Source: Zambia Times
GENDER refers to culturally based expectations regarding the roles and behaviours of males and females.
The term distinguishes the socially constructed from the biologically determined aspects of being male and female.
Unlike sex roles that are biologically constructed, gender roles and behaviours are in most cases culturally prescribed.
Source: Heritage
A non- governmental organization, Women Against Female Genital Mutilation (WAFGEM), has embarked on a major campaign in the country aimed at sensitizing women on the harmful effect of female mutilation and the enforcement of laws to be enacted.
Source: Sunday Trust
The media plays a crucial role in the political or electoral process. It's the ears and eyes of the public and help mould perceptions.
Source: Angola Press
The activities of the Forum of Angolan Women, in the province of Cabinda, will start on February 21, said Thursday in this city, the provincial governor, Aldina Matilde da Lomba.
Source: Daily Trust
The 3 Division Special Operation Battalion of the Nigerian Army in Yobe State has denied a report on Friday, of an admission by a soldier at a check point to have slept with a married woman who was accosted at the check point.
Source: The Standard
It requires concerted efforts on many fronts with government, civic society and community leaders all pulling together.
In 2011, all these fronts converged in Harare for the second national Aids conference, which ran under the theme Eliminate New HIV Infections in Children, Keep Mothers Alive.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
RESIDENTS in Kagera Region have been urged to take a holistic approach to fight against gender imbalance and gender based violence by utilizing the Police Gender Unit.
Source: IRIN News
Youth unemployment and underemployment are among the main barriers to development in West Africa, say experts. Not only does the exclusion of young people from the labour force perpetuate generational cycles of poverty, it also breaks down social cohesion and can be associated with higher levels of crime and violence among idle youth.
Source: Daily Trust
The staff of the Yola branch of Fidelity Bank Plc has renovated two workshop blocks and donated sewing machines to the Women Development Centre in Yola, Adamawa state.
Source: Daily News
Unlike many other days on the calendar where a certain day signifies the commemoration of an event and a lot of the times these commemorations have a happy connotation to it, February 6, isn't one of them unfortunately.
Every February 6, the world receive the day with heads bowed because it is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.
Source: AlertNET
London community worker Sarian Karim Kamara underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) as a child in Sierra Leone. Karim Kamara, who moved to Britain in 1999, says far more needs to be done to protect thousands of girls at risk in the UK.