Source: World Health Organization
Mrs Souad is 30 years old, married with 2 children, and heavily pregnant with her third. She lives in a rural village 10 km from the health facility where she is to deliver her baby, and the journey to get there takes about 45 minutes.
Source: Heritage
MONROVIA - The Gbowee Peace Foundation Africa (GPFA) has unveiled a US$3M plan for the construction of a technical institute on the Robertsfield Highway, outside Monrovia.
Source: Business Ghana
Women and adolescents from Tarkwa Nsueam in the Western Region have undergone a two-day training to empower them on their sexual and reproductive rights.
Source: The Point
The Gambia Committee on Traditional Practices Affecting the Health of Women and Children (Gamcotrap) has called on the Government of The Gambia to consider outlawing Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) thus fulfilling its obligation as duty bearers on girls and women.
Source: The Herald
Zimbabwe is among four countries in SADC with 20 percent or more of all defence forces posts filled by women, recent research has found.The other three countries are Namibia, Seychelles and South Africa, which has the highest proportion of women in the defence sector, where they constitute 27 percent of the force .
Almost one in five young girls in sub-Saharan Africa are still forced to endure female genital mutilation (FGM), according to a UN report that paints a grim picture of the state of the world's children.
Source: The Daily Observer
The president of The Gambia Football Federation (GFF), Mustapha Kebbeh, has big dreams for football in the country. At the heart of his crusade is developing women and youth football. Kebbeh was speaking in an interview with a South African Newspaper, called the Daily Maveric.
Source: IRIN
Healthcare needs are changing in the Arab world, and chronic diseases linked to rising prosperity and aging populations are forcing health services to retool, even as the region grapples with political turmoil and uncertainty.
Source: Vanguard
The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan got a set of spanners as gifts from a 40-man delegation of Lady Mechanics Initiative led by the founder, Mrs. Sandra Aguebor-Ekperuoh, at the conference hall of the First Lady and she remarkably demanded for a crash hands-on programme for her and the states First Ladies across the country so that, "I can fix the car of my sister, the wife of the Vice President." Abayomi Adeshida of our Abuja Bureau captured the event.
Source: The Star
A 14-year-old girl Pili Mamyiai Kalea who escaped being married off while in standard six at Macknnon in Kinango wants well-wishers to help her.
Source: Forbes
The young women and girls from Africa have spoken. Their message was delivered in a statement during the just ended African Union (A.U) Summit in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia which took place from 20 to 31 January. More than 30 African heads of state gathered on Thursday for the opening session of 22nd A.U Heads of State meeting under the theme "agriculture and food security".
Source: Magharebia
Everyone in Morocco remembers Amina al-Filali, the Tangier teenager who drank rat poison after being forced to marry her rapist.
Source: Cameroon Tribune
In line with the 2014 Commonwealth Day on the theme "Women as agents of change," the British High Commission in Yaounde has decided to set up a local scholarship scheme dubbed "The Cameroon Women's Scholarship."
Source: The Namibian
A 34-year-old woman's hopes of finally becoming a mother were dashed after suffering her seventh miscarriage in eight years this week.
Source: The New Times
SEXUAL VIOLENCE against girls and women is one of the strongest expressions of patriarchal cultural values, norms and traditions. These learnt behaviours often cause men to believe that they have the right to abuse women's bodies.
Source: The New Times
Rwandans, civil society organisations and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) have been urged to join hands in the fight against gender imbalance in the country.
Source: The New Times
First Lady Jeannette Kagame, yesterday attended a steering committee meeting for the Organisation of African First Ladies against HIV/Aids (OAFLA) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
ACTIVISTS in the sister islands of Pemba and Zanzibar are doubtful whether the 601-member Constituent Assembly tasked to discuss and approve the proposed new Union Constitution would have the full participation of women.
Source: Inter Press Service
Nairobi — For a seasoned politician like Kenya's Rachael Shebesh, few things hold her back from rallying for women's rights. But when it comes to furthering her platform on social media - it is the one thing that this Nairobi County women's representative avoids.
Source: The Herald
Southern Africa is getting tough on rape and other violent sex-related crimes as evidenced by landmark court rulings in Zimbabwe and South Africa in the last two weeks. Last week, Zimbabwe imposed an effective sentence of 230 years on serial rapist and robber Thomas Brighton Chirembwe, who raped 13 women.