Source: Times of Zambia
IN recent memory, Solwezi has witnessed an influx of people from all over and that has taken a toll of the town's social life.
Call it civilisation but it has been a clash of cultures,ideas and lifestyles revolving around an idea of hope and prospect of getting a job in the mines or doing business with the mine.
Source: IPS
"Our daughters are our only source of wealth. Where else do you expect me to get cows from?" asks 60-year-old Jacob Deng from South Sudan's Jonglei state.
Deng's attitude is a widespread one here as the practice of child marriage is still supported in many South Sudanese communities, where girls are seen as a source of wealth because of the bride price families are paid.
Source: Daily Trust
It is important for women to acquire additional skills aside the basic ones for household chores and those required for their careers or jobs. Such skills include, baking, making soaps, detergents and toiletries, beads, weaving, cosmetology, how to make shea butter, candles, decorations, fashion designing and how to make continental and local delicacies just to mention a few.
Source: allAfrica
Invest and empower other women on the continent. This is the key message that came from former South African first lady and head of the Grace Machel Foundation, Graca Machel. Her inspiring words were delivered during her keynote address at the Women Inspiration and Enterprise (WIE) symposium in Cape Town, South Africa - attended by some of the continent's most powerful women.
Source: VOA
Two years since Ivory Coast's post-election violence came to an end, rape remains a problem throughout the country. Though such attacks are now occurring outside the context of armed conflict, they show that the security situation for the country's women remains bleak.
On a recent Saturday morning, Durand Coffi delivered instructions to a moving crew as they cleared furniture out of his ground-floor apartment in Bouake - the second-largest city in Ivory Coast.
Source: New Times
N Secretary General, Ban ki-Moon and World Bank president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, have hailed Rwanda's commitment to end Gender Based Violence (GBV).
The two officials made the remarks yesterday after holding talks with President Kagame at Village Urugwiro.
It was the first time the heads of both institutions travelled together for a common purpose.
Source: The Namibian
SOME of their names have been forgotten, others didn't live long enough to be named at all and still others cower behind closed doors fearing a society in which gender-based violence is the shame of the victim rather than that of the villain.
As the 122 people raped in the first four months of this year began to fade into the nameless and faceless obscurity of mounting statistics, local activists rallied in mini-skirts to call out the Police Inspector General for ostensibly mitigating rape in favour of the perpetrator and, a mere month ago, discussed the immense task of ending gender-based violence on a mountain top.
Source: Daily Trust
Women play crucial roles in developing the society. They have the responsibility of maintaining a healthy society starting from their roles in nurturing the family unit to their contribution in the various sectors of the country.
The first women panel in the country with the theme, 'Women and social responsibility', organised by Ufuk Dialogue Foundation in collaboration with Daily Trust Newspaper was held in Abuja last Saturday.
Source: Leadership
Aisha Jibrin Dukku was a minister between 2007 and 2010 during the administration of late President Umar Musa Yar'Adua. She was Minister of State for Education and belonged to the inner caucus of the president's family. She became one of the first truly conservative Fulani families to attain this position on her on merit.
Source: Leadership
Women's handbags are contaminated with more bacteria than the average toilet, a new study has revealed.
Tests showed that one in five handbag handles is home to sufficient bacteria to pose a risk to human health.
The research also revealed that the dirtiest item in the average handbag is hand cream – bottles of hand cream were found to carry more bacteria than the average toilet seat.
Source: Leadership
President Goodluck Jonathan's administration is now defined by several influential women around him. These women are not only vocal but are assigned responsibilities and positions of authority that are difficult to overlook.
They not only formulate policies; they insist on pushing them through. A sampler: When the president removed subsidy on petrol on January 1, 2012, most Nigerians blamed it on Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala , the minister of finance and coordinating minister for the economy.
Source: Daily Trust
Over $10,000 worth of antenatal products were on Tuesday given to more than 500 expectant mothers at the Nyanya Genaral Hospital by Zumunta Association, Washington DC chapter in conjunction with Milestone Medical Outreach also based in the USA.
Source: Times of Zambia
ROTARY Club International (RCI) has pledged to work closely with the Zambian Government in reducing maternal and child mortality rate in the country.
Source: Magharebia
Nineteen-year-old Tunisian feminist "Amina" was arrested in Kairouan on Sunday (May 19th).
Tunisia's prosecutor ordered the arrest of the Femen activist after she tried to take off her clothes opposite Uqba Ibn Nafi Mosque. She was also reportedly seen painting the word "Femen" on a wall near the mosque.
Source: Vanguard
THE joy of every woman is to deliver her baby normally. This is in spite of the many travails associated with pregnancy and delivery. Before now, the most available or preferred option for most women is natural birth.
Source: The Observer (Kampala)
Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) is this July launching another third Phase I trial to develop an HIV vaccine since 1999 when the first trial was launched.
Source: The New Vision
Rubaga Girls Primary School pupils had assembled to listen to an HIV awareness talk.The school always created an opportunity for the pupils and their parents to learn about different issues, including HIV.
Source: Daily Trust
At least three in 10 young girls have sex for the first time ever through rape, says a survey.
The survey by Positive Action for Treatment Access (PATA) investigated reasons for high HIV prevalence and lower age of first sex among adolescents aged between 10 and 19 and found "forced sex was the third main reason for sexual debut" after love and peer pressure.
Source: New Times
Business Times continues to profile successful business women, who will share their success tips and experiences of how they made it in the cutthroat and male-dominated business world. They reveal how they started out, what inspired them and how they have managed to make their business dreams come true. This week, Peterson Tumwebaze caught up with Meledah Twahirwa, a lawyer turned business woman.
Source: Cameroon Tribune
First Lady, Mrs Chantal Biya joined scores of women at the 20th May Boulevard to mark Unity Day Celebration.
Women from all walks of life, particularly those in the Defence Forces, yesterday May 20 displayed their strength in meeting challenges for an emerging Cameroon during a mast past at the 20th May Boulevard which saw them marched with guns as if to say "what a man can do; a woman can do and even better".