Source: The Guardian
After 18 years as a social activist in Somaliland, Suad Abdi feels it is time to run for parliament. But she stands as much chance of winning a seat as a camel has of passing through the eye of a needle.
Source: The Star
Kiambu Governor William Kabogo has said unmarried people should not be elected into office. He said such people have no family values and cannot lead.
Source: South Sudan News Agency
Kampala — In August 2013, soon after Eid Al Fatah, a young Ethiopian woman was lured to an empty property where she was pinned down and brutally gang raped by a group of seven men. The rape was filmed by one of the participants and then circulated through online social media months later.
Source: AlertNet
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania — Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete has appointed two women to powerful cabinet positions as the country prepares to enact a new constitution.
Source: Leadership (Abuja)
Minister of Niger Delta, Elder Godsday Orubebe, has said that the ministry is committed to youth development and women empowerment as a panacea to sustainable peace in the Niger Delta region.
Source: Premium Times
Six out of 10 people who are trafficked to the West are Nigerians. PREMIUM TIMES investigative reporter, Tobore Ovuorie, was motivated by years of research into the plight of trafficked women in the country, as well as the loss of a friend, to go undercover in a multi-billion dollar criminal enterprise. She emerged, bruised and beaten but thankfully alive, after witnessing orgies, big money deals in jute bags, police-supervised pickpocketing, beatings and even murder. This is her story.
Source: The New Times
When she started narrating her ordeal, tears flowed from her eyes uncontrollably until a friend intervened to comfort her.
Source: New Times
My husband returned home at 2.00am in the night drunk. I had spent the whole day in bed not feeling well. When he entered the bedroom, he asked me for his food which I gave him and went back to sleep.
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.