Source: Capital FM
As Safaricom released its 2012/2013 financial year results, the telecommunication company's CEO Bob Collymore has called on more companies to make their offices female friendly in order to boost their productivity. "My argument is simple, it is important that we develop women in leadership. It is important that they feel comfortable. It's important that a woman is able to breastfeed with dignity.
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: Daily Trust
The federal government yesterday officially began paying women to attend antenatal clinic in hope of increasing demand for a growing range of maternal and child health services and cutting down the number of women dying from childbirth complications.
Women from African Union Member States, Civil Society, Women Pan-African movements, women’s rights organisations, academics, Diaspora organisations, private sector, UN agencies and other development partners ended a two-day consultative workshop on 13 May 2013. The conference was aimed at defining and strategizing on women’s priorities on Pan Africanism, Renaissance especially to inform Africa’s Agenda 2063.
The winner of UNESCO's press freedom prize has been jailed for speaking out against her government—but even behind bars, her name has not been forgotten.
The Nigerian government has officially begun paying women to attend antenatal clinic hoping that it will increase the demand for a growing range of maternal and child health services, whilst cutting down the number of women dying from childbirth complications.
Source: Daily Trust
The Women in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN), a non-governmental organisation has reinstated its commitment in improving technological knowledge acquisition for girls through competition and trainings at incubation centres.
Source: The Chronicle
With less than three years to the Millennium Development Goals (MDG) target for improved maternal health, the maternal death ratio in the Ashanti Region currently stands at 315 per 100,000 live births, against the 185 per 100,000 live births target set for achievement under MDG-5 by 2015. Teenage pregnancy is said to be on the increase, from 9.8% in 2011, to 12.4% in 2012 in the region, while the maternal mortality ratio increased from 190 in 2010 to 211 in 2011 per 100,000 live births, including maternal deaths recorded by the Ghana Health Service at the teaching hospitals, according to reports on a joint monitoring and health sector survey in national institutions.
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.