Source: FOROYAA Newspaper
Women gardeners in Mandinary village in the Kombo North District, West Coast Region, have complained to Foroyaa about the frequent encroachment of stray cattle and goats in their gardens which is causing destruction of their plots. Aja Trawally, one of the complainants/ gardeners, said cattle and goats from the surrounding settlements do frequently enter their gardens to forage on vegetable plants grown on their beds.
Source: Human Rights Watch
Akech loved to study and dreamed of becoming a nurse. But when she was 14, the uncle who was raising her told her she was too old for school and forced her to marry a man she described as old, gray-haired, and married to another woman with whom he had several children.
Source: allAfrica
In disclosing in the New York Times on Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie also called attention to the many women in Africa and other developing regions who die from breast cancer each year. Jolie underwent the double mastectomy, and subsequent breast reconstruction, earlier this year after discovering that she carried a "faulty" gene, BRCA1, which sharply increases her risk of developing certain kinds of cancer.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
MEMBERS of Parliament have decried the slow pace in the reduction of gender based violence as government noted it is still grappling with the increased number of reported cases across the country.
Source: Sabahi
Mogadishu's Waberi district administration and Raage Ugaas High School are collaborating on a multi-phase education project to provide 225 illiterate and innumerate women with free schooling.
Source: Institute of Development Studies
As we move toward the end date for the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), work towards a new post-2015 global architecture to frame development outcomes and track progress is already underway. Recognising the 57th Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) in New York as a strategic moment to feed into these processes, a multi-stakeholder roundtable was organised, co-hosted by the BRIDGE research and information team at IDS.
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.