Source: Media Global
For decades, the Central African Republic (CAR), a Landlocked Developing Country (LLDC) in Central Africa, has been afflicted with the challenges of endemic poverty, poor health, and weak governance.
Source: UN News Service
The United Nations agency leading the response to the AIDS epidemic is calling for an end to gender-based violence, which is not only a serious human rights violation but also increases the risk of HIV infection.
Source: UN News Centre
Outlining the array of challenges faced by United Nations police in peacekeeping missions, top UN Police officials today stressed the necessity of increasing the number of women officers for success in fulfilling their mandates.
Source: Vanguard
The Medical Director, Optimal Cancer Care Foundation, Dr Femi Olaleye, on Friday said breast cancer killed one in every 25 Nigerian women.
Source: Daily Trust
The umbrella body of women organizations in the country, the National Council for Women Societies (NCWS) has condemned the decreasing number of women in appointive positions in the country.
Source: The Standard
CASES of young girls who are being sexually abused even by the very people who are supposed to guard and watch over them are a cause of concern to gender experts and officials.
Source: The Star
A 17-year-old girl died on Monday after trying to abort a pregnancy. The girl, a form two student at Lwala Mixed Secondary School, died while being treated at Migori Level Four Hospital.
Source: The New Times
While many never dream about going to school once they clock 40 years, it is a different story for 45-year- old Beatrice Uwizeye. Over three decades after dropping out of school, Uwizeye is determined to get to the pinnacle of her education dream.
Source: Trust
Uganda has one of the world's highest unmet needs for contraception, leading almost 300,000 women to seek backstreet abortions each year - with many dying as a result, the Center for Reproductive Rights (CRR) said in a new report released on Wednesday.
Source: The Star
More than 1,000 girls are lined up to undergo Female Genital Mutilation in Baringo, Pokot and Marakwet counties during the December holidays. In Loboi location of Marigat district, a local politician is among those secretly planning to have a circumcision ceremony for his two daughters.
Source: The Star
More than 1,000 girls are lined up to undergo Female Genital Mutilation in Baringo, Pokot and Marakwet counties during the December holidays. In Loboi location of Marigat district, a local politician is among those secretly planning to have a circumcision ceremony for his two daughters.
Source: New Era
About five hundred people are expected to stage a protest march today starting in Katutura to the Windhoek Central Hospital where they will hand over a petition demanding that the government set aside plans to appeal a High Court decision last year in which the court ruled that three women were sterilised without consent and were therefore coerced.
Source: The Point
The Network Against Gender-Based Violence recently organised a one-day training on gender-based violence for law enforcers of various disciplines in the country.
Source: The Herald
FOURTEEN Zimpapers reporters yesterday attended a two-day workshop on gender reporting. The participants were drawn from The Herald, Sunday Mail, Manica Post, Kwayedza, H-Metro and Star FM. The workshop, hosted by Gender Links, is designed to prepare journalists for 16 days of activism and how to report issues from a gender sensitive perspective.
Source: The Star
WOMEN and youths are the most affected by HIV-Aids in Mombasa county, the National Aids Control Council has said. The two groups contribute to three quarters of prevalence in the county, which has an estimated 58,100 residents living with HIV, according to a report by the National HIV and Estimates, Nascop/NACC 2012.
Source: The Star
In yesterday's Star, we published an interview with Melinda Gates, the co-founder of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, about her family planning projects in Kenya. Today, read about how previously unreached women in the slums are embracing modern family planning methods.
Source: The Star
When Faith Akoth discovered she was pregnant, she was overjoyed. This was her first pregnancy and she could not wait to be a new mother.
Source: DW
After repeated clashes in Tripoli, hundreds of women have demonstrated for an increased presence of the military and police. A military withdrawal from the capital helped spawn the conflict with no end in sight.
Source: The Herald
Women from Harare's Sunningdale suburb have welcomed a potato growers' programme by local entrepreneurs to grow potatoes saying this would empower them and improve household food security. The potato growing project has been rolled out in Mbare and Sunningdale districts spearheaded by Sunningdale Zanu-PF district's women's league with women undergoing intensive training in the income generating project.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
VODACOM Tanzania has reiterated its commitment to continue supporting the government to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The Vodacom Managing Director, Mr Rene Meza, said the company was keen to support as many development projects as possible in the country in a bid to achieve the MDGs.