Source: IPS
When Rwandan designer Colombe Ituze Ndutiye began drawing at the age of six, she thought she would grow up to be a cartoonist.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
KILIMANJARO Women Information Exchange and Consultancy Organization (KWIECO) has received glowing tributes as it expands its free legal services.
Source: Trust
Mother of four Everlyn Irusa was given an injection to numb her inside upper arm before two four-centimetre-long rods were inserted just under her skin.
Source: Trust
Sexual harassment, high rates of female genital cutting and a surge in violence and Islamist feeling after the Arab Spring uprisings have made Egypt the worst country in the Arab world to be a woman, a poll of gender experts showed on Tuesday.
Source: The Point
Journalists from the print and electronic media on Thursday took part in a two-day training on gender-based violence at the NaNA conference hall on Bertil Harding Highway.
Source: The Herald
A festival to celebrate womanhood is scheduled for November 23 at the Alliance Française in Harare.
Source: The Chronicle
THE OFFICE of the Administrator of Stool Lands (OASL)-Tamale has organized a one-day gender sensitization workshop at the Tamale Regional Library for Women's Groups and the Vulnerable in society on the Second Land Administration Project.
Source: Malawi News Agency
Non-governmental Gender Coordination Network (NGOGNC) said will implement a program to contribute towards in achieving increased representation and participation of women in politics and decisions making position.
Source: Aljazeera
Human Rights Watch has called on Somalia's government to order an impartial, and transparent investigation into an alleged gang-rape by African Union soldiers.
Source: The Star
The Government will spend Sh200 million to buy sanitary pads for disadvantaged girls in primary schools in the country in the 2013/2014 financial year.
Source: The Star
THE government has pledged to increase modern contraceptive use by 10 per cent in 2015.
Source: Aswat Masriya
A group that goes by the name "Tomorrow" organized a bicycle demonstration in Egypt's Suez on Friday evening where tens of girls biked on the Corniche in defiance of sexual harassment.
Source: The New Times
An advert that appeared on Rwanda TV recently painted disturbing a Picture that is all too familiar in many public spaces in the region and beyond.
Source: The Inquirer
The Ministry of Gender and Development has unanimously demonstrated its commitment to providing anti-rape awareness to all public schools and to enlighten the minds of students on Gender Based Violence (GBV) against women in the country and also encourage them to be part of the awareness process.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
"IT is widely agreed that women in Africa are the foundation of most major institutions. Food production in Africa is carried out largely by women. The health of families, especially the health of children, depends largely on women."
Source: Premium Times
Efforts directed at curbing the spread of the virus will be focused more towards women, NACA said.
Source: Xinhua
Zambia is in the process of coming up with another national strategic framework on HIV/AIDS as the southern African nation presses on with its resolve to eliminate the pandemic.
Source: The Observer
More than 50 per cent of women are scared of discussing family planning issues with their husbands, according to a study by Reproductive Health Uganda (RHU).
Source: Voice of America
About 4,000 people are expected to attend this year's International Conference on Family Planning. The three day meeting opens November 12 in Addis Ababa. The theme is Full Access, Full Choice.
Source: Tengri News
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon pleaded Wednesday in Niger, the country with the world's highest fertility rate, for better reproductive health to curb the Sahel region's runaway demographic growth, AFP reports .