During a meeting held in Kigali last week, women activists raised concern that there is a lot that needs to be done to have women playing a more robust role in elective politics within the East African Community. In an exclusive interview with The New Times' Sarah Kwihangana,
Source: DW
The female condom has been making its way across developing countries, particularly those in the African continent. While many see this as a woman's commodity, one man in Mozambique is actively campaigning for it too.
Source: Leadership
With the recent report of 60,000 pregnant women dying yearly in Nigeria, it then makes it 166 deaths per day of women that die due to pregnancy complications. These are the reported cases, what about those that are not reported? It is now a matter of urgency for government to do more to reduce the scourge.
Reluctance to report cases of sexual advances in exchange for jobs, mainly over fear of reprisal, complicate efforts to tackle the crime, activists have said.
Source: IPS
GULU, Uganda, Jun 4 2013 (IPS) – It is swerves and roundabouts for Keddy Olanya, a 32-year-old wife and mother of three from Gulu, northern Uganda, who is one of only a handful of female drivers negotiating the country's potholed roads on a bodaboda or motorbike taxi.
Source: AllAfrica
Celebrating five years of sharing positive ideas, Africa Gathering is back on 21-22 June. This year's theme is 'Hands-on technology: Rise of the makers, the dynamic and the disruptive thinkers in Africa'.
Source: Times Live
Cederberg mayor Jonas White has been suspended from the ANC for abusing the rights of women and children, the provincial disciplinary committee (PDC) said.
Source: Vibe Ghana
The Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative (CHRI) has decried the continued perpetration of violence against women in Ghana and has called on civil society groups to help end canker.
The stage is all set as African women warm up for the 5th edition of the African Women in Leadership Conference on the 14th of June, 2013 at the prestigious Le Meridian Hotel, Uyo, Akwa Ibom state. Sponsored by The African Women in Leadership Organisation (AWLO), the forum is non-profit inclined with a membership that is open to all women
Source: New York Times
As Anene Booysen lay dying, she whispered to her medics the name of the man who had assaulted her and left her lying in the dirt on a construction site, her bowels spilling from her abdomen.
A three-day high-level international Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Leadership Conference for 30 Gambian and 10 African-American teenage leaders opened Thursday at the conference hall of the Association of Non-Governmental Organisations (TANGO) in Fajara, Bakau.
Reluctance to report cases of sexual advances in exchange for jobs, mainly over fear of reprisal, complicate efforts to tackle the crime, activists have said.
There was something deliciously serendipitous about the power going off in northern Kenya on May 27 just as Judge J.A. Makau read his much-anticipated decision in a case could alter the status of women and girls in Kenya and maybe all of Africa.
Source: The Observer (Kampala)
A new report released by the World Health Organisation says maternal deaths in Uganda have been declining at the rate of 5.1% annually over the last 10 years.
Source: Daily Trust
A total of 1046 women die in every 100,000 births in Zamfara State, State Team Manager of the Partnership for Reviving Routine Immunization in Northern Nigeria, Maternal New born and Child Health Dr Sani Dahiru Abubakar has disclosed.
Source: Pretoria News
Many countries in Africa will see their populations continue to increase during the next decade, with South Africa expected to reach 51 138 490 by 2020.
Source: Christian Science Monitor
Groups such as the World Food Program and Care are joining forces to create all-women-managed cereal banks in villages throughout the drought-prone Sahel region of Africa. They help protect against famine, but also empower women.
Source: International Rescue Committee
Structured group therapy has dramatically reduced symptoms of depression, anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among survivors of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to a study carried out by the International Rescue Committee, Johns Hopkins University and the University of Washington.
Source: UN News Centre
Demography and technology are helping to transform the work force more quickly and deeply than ever before and the United Nations International Labour Organization (ILO) is poised to tackle the new challenges, the agency's chief today said opening a two-week conference.
Source: IRIN
More displaced women and girls - some as young as 13 - are turning to sex work to get by in Mali where 14 months of occupation and conflict have forced 475,000 people from their homes in the north, according to NGOs.