Source: The Standard
Schools opened for the first term a fortnight ago but for 13-year-old Sithembile Moyo from Goredema in Gokwe North who completed her Grade Seven last year, hopes of pursuing her education were shattered.
Source: Daily Trust
The Branch Controller Central Bank of Nigeria Bauchi Musa Ladan Muhammad has explained that out of N 220 billion Micro Small and Medium Enterprises Development Fund N132 billion have been earmarked to provide financial services to women.
Source: Health-e
A heartbroken woman who gave birth to a stillborn baby in early December fears her husband's family will banish her because of her inability to bear children.
Source: New Times
President Paul Kagame has called on world leaders to increase investment in girls’ empowerment to ensure that girls are able to fulfill their full potential.
"We need more women leaders! When women lead side by side with men, it is good for equality and democracy. It is good for peace and stability. It is good for business. When women and men make decisions together, the decisions better reflect and respond to the diverse needs and rights of the entire population."
The quest to establish genuinely equal opportunity for men and women - in both their contribution to and their benefits from Africa's economic transformation - took a further step forward today, when the Board of the African Development Bank Group approved its new Gender Strategy for the period 2014-2018.
Source: New York Times
Morocco's parliament on Wednesday unanimously amended an article in the penal code that had outraged people by allowing a rapist to escape prosecution if he married his underage victim.
HM King Mohammed VI inaugurated, on Wednesday in Marrakech, a women education and training center meant to enhance social stability and successful economic integration.
Source: Leadership (Abuja)
The First Lady, Dame Patience Jonathan, on Tuesday urged women to justify the confidence reposed in them by their male counterparts and be agents of positive change.
Source: Radio Dabanga
A woman was gang-raped, and two boys stripped of their clothes by militiamen in two separate incidents in Nierteti locality, Central Darfur this week. Large concentrations of government troops in Nierteti locality have been causing terror and fear among the citizens for the last week.
Source: The New Dawn
Barely 46 percent of pregnant women in Liberia, who gives birth in hospitals, are assisted by skilled attendants, according to the United Nations Population Fund or UNFPA. This grim reality speaks to the urgent need for adequate professionally trained midwives to save the lives of both babies and mothers.
Source: The Star
The Attorney General and Director of Public Prosecution have opposed a case by eight women who are allegedly survivors of sexual violence committed in the wake of the 2007 general election.
Source: Hays Post
Increasing the awareness of "gender-based violence" is the goal of an art exhibit coming to Hays next month.
Source: This Day Live
The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has begun a probe into the alleged torture of a woman and her daughters at Ejigbo market in Ejigbo Local Council Development Area of Lagos State.
Source: Daily Observer
The director of Health Services has reaffirmed that the government of The Gambia is very committed to the fight against gender-based violence in the country, while highlighting strides that have been taken to root out this social menace.
Source: The Chronicle
World Vision-Ghana says there has been some significant improvement in child and maternal health in Ghana over the last two decades.
SOURCE: Nobel Women's Initiative
Since mid-December, nearly 400,000 people have been displaced by violence that has spread throughout South Sudan. Women and children are particularly vulnerable to the escalating violence and reports show that a disproportionate number of women have been displaced by the fighting. UN officials and aid workers on the ground have reported increasing cases of gender-based violence, including rape. A statement released by a group of South Sudanese women expressed concern for the increased suffering of vulnerable groups, particularly women and children, and have called for a swift end to the ongoing crisis.
Source: OSISA
We put it up front that we disagree with each other about whether it is appropriate for men to call themselves feminist. On the one hand, Mbuyiselo is convinced that it is not only conceivable for men to be feminist, but that it is courageous and ethically desirable, and that (African male) feminism is an elaboration of ubuntu/botho.
Totoya, Bong County - A group of rural women farmers under the banner "Arise and Shine" have launched an agriculture program in Totoya, Bong County.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Mauritania must ban the practice of force feeding young girls to fatten them up for marriage, says a report which highlights the case of a child bride who died last year after being put on a dangerously high-calorie diet.