Source: TrustLaw
"Nobody wants a woman who passes stools all the time and smells," whispered Farhiya Mohamed Farah, explaining why her husband divorced her when she was pregnant with their second child.
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Source: IOL News
Although society’s attitude towards TB is slowly changing, one thing remains a challenge among in communities – the stigma.
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Source: Safe World for Women
Many Mauritanian women and their families are now stipulating the one-wife as a prerequisite before marriage, but religious scholars have condemned it as a violation to Islamic teaching.
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Source: WordPress
Women's groups in Sierra Leone are robustly pushing the government to establish laws to increase the representation of women in public life. And young women are joining in, too.
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Source: Safe World for WomenThe Nigerian Court of Appeal will in October make a ruling that could determine whether a disputed property ownership should be resolved by Sharia Law or according to the new constitution.
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Source: The New TimesPresident Paul Kagame has called upon the East African Community (EAC) member states to invest in programmes and institutions that improve the livelihoods and incomes of women, if they are to succeed in empowering them.
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Source: Pambazuka News
When it comes to sexual violence against women in Uganda, Doreen Lwanga says it is about time men start seeing women as human beings and not sexualised objects.
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Source: Daily Trust
Speaker of the Kwara State House of Assembly, Barrister Rasaq Atunwa has condemned violence against women just as he challenged women activists to rise up and protect the right of the female folk in the country.
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Source: Trustlaw"It's done in the dark," said Fatuma Ahmed, squatting inside her makeshift stick shelter.
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Source: IRIN
Even as the UN announced that famine had spread to more areas in south-central Somalia, reports from the capital, Mogadishu, indicate that the suffering of the drought-displaced, mostly women and children, was increasing, with reports that government forces and Al-Shabab militia were hampering aid distribution in areas under their control.
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Source: Voice of AmericaLiberian voters made history five years ago by electing Africa's first female president. But as Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf runs for re-election, voters will find few female candidates on ballots for other posts.
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Source: Trust LawFatou Diakhate seemed so young when she was given away in marriage that her husband, Mori Diarra, took pity on the 13-year-old.
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Source: All AfricaTunis — A women's group begins campaigning near La Marsa beach in Tunis to convince more women to come up and register in the electoral lists, in time for the deadline now pushed back to Aug. 14. Most of the women watching the proceedings are
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Source: Alert Net
Bribes, poorly trained medical staff and the lack of medical care for pregnant HIV-positive mothers are among the reasons for high rates of infant and maternal mortality in Uganda. NGOs want to see more government action.
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Source: All Africa
Women married under Chapter 5.11 of the Marriages Act can now retain their maiden names and be allowed to acquire birth certificates for their children without hassles.
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Source:All Africa
Vulnerable groups in the country comprising women, children and persons with disabilities, constitute about 70% of the entire population, and being an integral part of the society, their issues and concerns needs to be integrated into national development.
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Source: UN News Centre
A senior United Nations official today voiced her concern after a Sudanese court jailed a journalist for covering the case of an alleged rape of an activist by security forces, stressing that it is the perpetrators that must face criminal charges,
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Source: BuaNewsDeputy President Kgalema Motlanthe says policy, legislation, a change of attitude and behaviour are critical in pursuing the goal of the emancipation and empowerment of women.
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Source: The NewTimesWomen have been advised to capitalise on the upcoming East African Community conference on the role of women in socio-economic development in order to share and exploit business opportunities in the region.
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Source: SW Radio Africa The state security sector is still actively being used by Robert Mugabe and ZANU PF to torture and oppress women in order to keep them out of the political process, a new report has revealed. The report also brings out the direct role of the ZANU PF militia in the violence.
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