The Deputy High Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Mrs Elizabeth Nicol, has stated that the key to the empowerment of the African woman is through education. She said this at a meeting with a delegation from the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF), UK Section, at the conference hall of the Ghana High Commission in London.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon urged developing countries today to not lose momentum in their ongoing efforts to improve women and children’s health and warned there is still much to be done to tackle this issue.
Ghana’s government is looking at ways to support people accused of witchcraft - mainly women and children banished by their communities to “witches’ camps” in the north - and to reintegrate them in their home villages.
IN Uganda, about 4,000 women die from pregnancy and childbirth related complications every year.
Source: The Observer
Women in Uganda will now access Microgynon Fe, one of the world's most widely used contraceptives, at an affordable price.
Source: allAfrica.com
Kenya has been ranked top globally for making the highest number of reforms to enable women prosper economically. According to the 2012 Women, Business and the Law report by the World Bank , the country came first out of 141 economies in easing women's access to property, job opportunities, credit among other rights.
Source: The New Times
Honestly, when the newscasts started streaming in about this year's winners, my conscience pointed to something gone amiss in the selection process.
Women in West Africa's four-nation Mano River Union have a cause for celebration with the first ever appointment of one of their own as secretary-general of the 38-year-old bloc.
Source: New Era
The Windhoek Magistrate's Court on Monday postponed to November 22 the criminal case in which a police officer is accused of raping a 24-year-old woman and a 15-year-old girl who used to stay with him at his house.
Source: Daily Nation
Interviews closed on Tuesday for the National Gender and Equality Commission chairperson and member.
Source: IRIN News
Daniel Soadava and Samoela Razafindramboho are known as "the mean women" in Antalaha, a small town on the east coast of Madagascar. "Men complain that we are always saying bad things about them," they laugh.
Source: Angola Press
Staff of the second infantry division of the northern military region of the Angolan Armed Forces (FAA) Wednesday in Malanje were informed about the Law Against Domestic Violence, during a lecture sponsored by the provincial department of family and women promotion.
SOURCE: (WNN) MADAGASCAR-Womennewsnetwork
A 38-year-old woman named Say Louise from Ilafitsignana, Madacascar has happy memories of childhood, when her father’s job with the port management authority in Fort Dauphin (and later his farming and fishing) provided for all the family’s needs. Harvests and fish were plentiful.
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A midwife from Katine village in Uganda is fronting a campaign to draw attention to Africa's high maternal mortality rates and advocate for ways to reduce it. Priscilla Alupo is propped up on a bed in Tiriri health centre's postnatal ward on a sunny Saturday afternoon in Katine, north east Uganda.
Source: The Interpreter
One of the imponderables this early in the life of the Arab Spring is the degree to which the political upheavals will result in substantive, rather than cosmetic, improvements to women's political roles in the Arab world.
When Aisha Diis* and her five children fled their home in Somalia seeking aid from the famine devastating the region, she could not have known the dangers of the journey, or even fathom that she would be raped along the way.
As the Norwegian Nobel Committee named Liberian President Ellen Johnson- Sirleaf a joint winner of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize, opposition party supporters were flooding the streets of Monrovia to demand that she be voted out of office in the upcoming election.
Institutions involved in brokering peace talks in West Africa must include women in mediation exercises if they are to achieve effective conflict resolution, activists say.
In solidarity with the women of the region, Femmes Africa Solidarité (FAS) is actively supporting the Mano River Women’s Peace Network (MARWOPNET) and the Angie Brooks International Center (ABIC) their joint effort for political stabilization and to participate and women’s presidential to election in Liberia.
Source: OpenDemocracy
“We have included the Arab Spring in this prize, but we have put it in a particular context. Namely, if one fails to include the women in the revolution and the new democracies, there will be no democracy.” Thorbjoern Jagland, chair of the Nobel Prize Committee.