Source: Daily Monitor
In a society like Uganda where women don’t commonly feature as heavy truck and long distance drivers, not even as Taxi drivers in the city or countryside, it is certain that any regular woman bus driver would stun and excite many.
Alice Nyambura, a driver with Swift Safaris Bus Company plying Kampala-Mbarara route daily has become a marvel and subject of talk among travellers. Her stint has been from Gaaga bus along Kampala-Arua route and Nile Coach on the same route for two and three years respectively. She drove Kaliita bus taking Kampala-Nairobi route for one year, before turning to Kampala-Mbarara route with Swift Safaris bus for seven months now.
Source: UN News Centre
The United Nations official spearheading efforts to combat sexual violence in times of conflict today welcomed a presidential pardon granted by the Sudanese authorities last week to local journalists prosecuted for reporting on cases of alleged rape.
Source: BuaNews
The struggle for gender equality and women empowerment should continue even after Women's Month draws to a close, says Minister for Women, Children and People with Disabilities, Lulu Xingwana.
Source: UNAIDS
A new documentary film following the lives of four people in Africa aims at challenging patriarchy, end men's violence against women and promote gender equality.
Source: The Citizen
Ms Marguerite Kassa feared she would find herself alone in the small crowd of a dozen other pregnant women at the integrated health centre in Mossendjo, in the south-western Republic of Congo.
Source: Huffington Post
Imagine you are a woman, forced to leave your home and community because there is no food or water to feed your family. You must walk hundreds of miles with your children to a refugee camp in another country.
Source: All Africa
Actionaid Ghana (AAG), an international NGO, has encouraged investment in girl-child education to enable them to reach their aspirations. It says increased investment in girl-child education yields significant economic and social returns for Third World countries.
Source: The Namibia Economist
First National Bank (FNB) recently handed over a sponsorship to the Namibia Women Association, a support group for women in Namibia. Ingrid Goeieman of FNB said: "FNB has been supporting the association,
Source: IRIN News
Political parties in the Democratic Republic of Congo are struggling to recruit women into their ranks to run for parliament, despite a legal requirement to do so and a belief that greater numbers of female parliamentarians are critical to advancing women's rights.
Source: UN WOMEN
In response to the deadly bomb attack on the UN House in Abuja, Nigeria, UN Women Executive Director Michelle Bachelet has expressed her sorrow and deepest concern.
Source: UNFPA
DADAAB, Kenya — When Fatuma Ali together with her husband decided to begin a trek from Somalia to Kenya with their four children, they knew the journey would be torturous. But it was one that they had to take.
Source: All Africa
Dear readers - please find below an article by the Women's Initiatives for Gender Justice reflecting on some of the gender issues for child soldiers in the case against Thomas Lubanga Dyilo. The views and opinions expressed here do not necessarily reflect the views and opinions of the Open Society Justice Initiative.
Source: All Africa
Six women's rights groups have appealed against a court ruling that dismissed their case on the setup of the Supreme Court.
The women's organisations, through lawyer Judy Thongori, say in the notice of appeal dated August 29 that they were
Admire Bio has the reassured presence of a successful businesswoman, with an edge that reveals she is still hungry for more. Bio, 28, a single mother living with her parents, set up her first internet cafe in the Sierra Leone capital, Freetown,
Source: UN News Service
The United Nations Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI) is looking into recent allegations of sexual exploitation and abuse involving its peacekeepers based in the west of the country.
Source: UN News Service
The world's top female football player and United Nations advocate Marta Vieira da Silva is on a mission to Sierra Leone to highlight efforts to empower women in the West African nation that is recovering from years of conflict.
Source: Plus News
While most pregnant women in Zambia are now tested for HIV, other sexually transmitted infections such as syphilis are not being diagnosed, placing the lives of thousands of women at risk.
Source: All Africa
AN academy to train women and girls who drop out of school in vocational and life skills has been launched.
The academy, targeting women and girls in Bunyole in Butaleja district, is being supported by a Swedish Organisation, Livstycket.
Source: All Africa
Birnin-Kebbi — Wife of the Kebbi State governor, Hajiya Asma'u Usman Dakingari has empowered over 1,200 women across the 21 local government areas of the state to enable them establish small scale businesses that would make them self-reliant.
Source: All Africa
A cooperation protocol to support small and medium enterprises was signed Wednesday in Luanda between the Millennium Angola Bank and the Angolan Federation of Business Women (FMEA).