Source: Leadership (Abuja)
Barely few months after a middle-aged woman delivered a baby with three legs in Katsina State, residents of Malumfashi local government area of the state were stunned yesterday as a 19-year-old housewife, Zainab Dahiru, was delivered a baby with two heads.
Source: The News
As part of efforts aimed at empowering women through small and medium skills enterprises, the Liberia Coca-Cola Bottling Company (LCCBC) has identified with more than 35 young women by providing assistance to them for the establishment of their own businesses.
Source: ThisDay
Governments across Africa and other stakeholders have been urged to allow women participate more in their economies. The call was made by Regus Vice-President Africa & Middle East, Mrs. Joanne Bushell, in a statement issued ahead of the International Women's Day 2013, which is on 8 March. The theme of the Day is 'The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum'.
Source: FIDH
On the eve of International Women's Day, FIDH joins human rights and women's rights organisations in Mali and the Coalition of the Campaign "Africa for Women's Rights: Ratify and respect !" to call for the full participation of women and the protection of their rights to be at the centre of the process towards peace and democracy in Mali.
Source: Tunisia Live
In what advocates say is an increasingly hostile social environment for women following the 2011 revolution, the Tunisian government signed on this week to a United Nations (UN) initiative that counters violence against women.
Source: Think Africa Press
Let’s start with some of the things you may take for granted. Freedom to walk on the streets, freedom to marry who you want to, protect your body and be safe. How would you feel if you were chatting away to your female friend on the bus and a group of men started attacking her? How would you feel if you were married and your husband didn’t allow you to choose when to have sex or become pregnant? We would be united in our condemnation or say that these scenarios are ridiculous.
Source: Mail&Guardian
They seek to force silent authorities and a reticent society to confront "sexual terrorism".
Source: Aswat Masriya
Rights groups, Political Parties and Women Initiatives called on Tuesday women of Egypt to march all over the country on Friday 8 March which marks the International Women's Day under the slogan "Women with the revolution" to declare their rejection of violence.
Source: Aswat Masriya
The Chief Executive Officer of Thomson Reuters Foundation, Monique Villa, said on Monday that helping women know and defend their rights tackles the very root of poverty.
Source: Aswat Masriya
The Egyptian National Council for Women announced on Monday commencing projects in four governorates that aim at raising the financial situation of female breadwinners and their families.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
THE Exim Bank Tanzania has pledged continued support to women empowerment in a various parts of the country in a bid to boost long-term economic development.
Source: The Chronicle
OFFICIAL REPORT from the Northern Regional Directorate of the Ghana Health Service has revealed that as many as 250 women have died during child birth, between January 2011 and December 2012.
Source: Think Africa Press
As Kenyans go to the polls today, could Sophia Abdi Noor become the first ever Somali woman to be voted in to the Kenyan parliament?
Source: Oxfam
Delegates from over 190 governments meeting at the UN-led Commission on the Status of Women this week in New York have the chance to take a critical step against the global scourge of violence against women, said international aid agency Oxfam. The agency said the two-week conference must go beyond discussing agreements made some 20 years ago at the landmark women's rights conference in Beijing in 1995.
Source: Daily News Egypt
International Women’s Day (IWD), celebrated around the world on 8 March and carrying the title for 2013, “The Gender Agenda: Gaining Momentum”, will, this year, celebrate and emphasise the importance of hiring women to participate in the growth of economies around the globe, especially in underdeveloped nations.
Source: Human Rights Watch
An appeals court's ruling to uphold the conviction of a journalist who interviewed a woman alleging rape by government forces is a major setback for freedom of the media in Somalia. The woman, who had also been convicted of "insulting the government" and other alleged crimes, was found not guilty.
Source: IRIN
Brazzaville — Indigenous women in the Republic of Congo, better known as pygmies - a minority group threatened with extinction - are virtually excluded from reproductive health services. They mostly give birth at home and are exposed to related health risks, according to a 2012 study conducted by the Ministry of Health with support from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA).
Source: UNESCO
The third and last workshop of a project covering three countries in West Africa (the Gambia, Guinea-Bissau and Senegal) is organized in Banjul, the Gambia from 20-21 February 2013. The workshop will validate the results of several case studies on the social movement of women and violence against women carried out under the supervision of UNESCO’s Regional Office in Dakar.
Source: southafrica.info
President Jacob Zuma on Thursday joined the growing campaign against rape in South Africa, saying the country faced ongoing violence against women and children and that it needed to stop.
Source: Tanzania Daily News (Dar es Salaam)
INFANT mortality has sharply dropped in Moshi Municipality, from 160 in 2006 to 18 last year per 1,000 live births, a decline of 142 deaths.