Source: The Star
A mother ship (or mothership) is a vehicle (ship, aircraft or spacecraft) that serves or carries one or more smaller vehicles. Examples include bombers converted to carry experimental aircraft to altitudes where they can conduct their research (such as the B-52 carrying the X-15), or ships that carry small submarines to an area of ocean to be explored (such as the Atlantis II carrying the Alvin). The mother ship may also recover the smaller craft, or may go its own way after releasing it."
Source: New Era
Senior members of the Swapo Party Women's Council (SPWC) have suggested that women practise a three-month abstinence from sex as a stand against the escalating violence against women and children in the country.
Source: New Vision
Salim Asha's breasts developed at the age of eight. By the time she was 16 years old, her breasts were so big for a girl of her age.
Today, the 19-year-old's breasts are uneven - the one on the right-hand side is much bigger than the left - with dark inflammations around the nipples.
"Lumps have developed in my breasts," Asha laments.
Source: The Chronicle
As we celebrate yet another Mothers' Day, there will be various gatherings both at home and elsewhere to honour and celebrate mothers for their hard work, love and dedication to their children.
Some other Ghanaians will be honouring persons who are not their biological mothers, but who have filled the all-important role of a mother in their lives.
The Lower Fulladu West Women's Federation on Wednesday held a general meeting at Brikamaba village, in Central River Region (CRR) south. The meeting, which brought together over hundred women, aimed at discussing the proceeds of their tractor donated to them by President Jammeh.
Source: Namibian
THE deputy secretary-general of Swapo, Laura McLeod-Katjirua, has urged all members of the party's women council to unite against social challenges in the society. McLeod-Katjirua was addressing a central committee meeting of the Swapo Party Women's Council at Oshakati on Saturday.
Asha Haji Elmi was born in Somalia in 1962 where she graduated from the Somali National University in Mogadishu. She e also holds a Master's degree in business administration from the International University of the United States.
Congolese armed forces, known by the French acronym FARDC, raped more than 102 women and 33 girls, some as young as six years old, as they fled the advance M23 rebels in country’s restive eastern region in November 2012, according to a joint UN report released today.
A Joint Communiqué on the Prevention of Sexual Violence in Somalia was signed in London late Tuesday by UN Deputy Secretary-General Jan Eliasson and the President of Somalia Hassan Sheik Mohamud.
Source: UN WOMEN
“I know my father is proud of me” says Devotha Christopher, smiling as she recalls her father at work in the courtroom. “He was not an educated man, but he taught me from a young age that justice will only prevail when the Court understands the barriers people face in their everyday pursuit of rights.”
A new UN report has found that serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law were committed in November 2012 during fighting between government forces and rebels of the M23 Movement over the town of Goma in North Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and during the subsequent retreat of the Congolese Armed Forces (FARDC) to South Kivu province.
Ethiopian women are increasing their footprint across the country, in business and especially in technological innovation. In April, a new initiative was launched by leading African telecom operator MTN that aimed to bolster women's participation in the technology sphere of the country and region.
Source: EIN News
The first edition of the African Development Bank's Gender Forum was held in Tunis on May 10, 2013, with women stressing the need to integrate institutional recognition, leadership, resource mobilization, capacity building and expertise development, "if we want to effectively change the state of gender equality in Africa."
On Monday, Kenyans who acknowledge Mother's Day will mark the occasion in a country ranked as one of the worst places on earth to be born.
Source: GAVI Alliance
A new record low price for human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines will help ensure millions of girls in developing countries can be protected against cervical cancer. Thanks to the GAVI Alliance, the poorest countries will now have access to a sustainable supply of HPV vaccines for as low as US$ 4.50 per dose. The same vaccines can cost more than $100 in developed countries and the previous lowest public sector price was $13 per dose.
Source: The Herald
Women have been called upon to take advantage of the new Constitution to campaign for posts in the impending harmonised polls. This was said during the launch of the Vote For a Woman campaign, an initiative of the Women In Politics Support Network, on Thursday.
Source: The Herald
I have been following media reports recently and it is now common to read stories of men being yanked to court to take care of their own flesh and blood. In some cases, it is men who we do not know, men who are struggling to make ends meet, which may be the reason why things end up becoming messy.
However, in some instances it is men society looks up to; the well-heeled who drive around in flashy cars who find themselves being dragged to court to fulfil their fatherly roles.
We’ve read the stories: From bedridden patients sending text messages to their health workers, to young people receiving HIV prevention messages via SMS, the mobile phone seems to have morphed from communications device to essential life-saver. But is the evidence there yet that mHealth is an effective and suitable health delivery intervention in the developing world?
Mr Claude Maerten, Head of European Union (EU) delegation to Ghana, has said the low representation of women in politics was an indication that Ghana was not maximizing its full potential for development.
Source: The Blaze
Egyptian women have been slowly losing what few rights they had as Islamists cement their rule in the country, but in a recent interview, one female television host wasn’t having any of it.