Source: Premium Times
The Federal Government's advocacy on the use of contraceptive among sexually active women in Nigeria for the prevention of unwanted pregnancy and abortion is beginning to yield positive results as more women are recorded to be embracing the method.
Source: The Ethiopian Herald
Just like other developing countries and few developed nations as well as the days of yore, women in Ethiopia until recent past were pushed from the boons of social life owing to the deeply entrenched and culturally programmed positive bias or preferential treatments accorded to males.
Source: News24Wire
While South Africa came in for much criticism in Human Rights Watch's latest world report, its progressive approach to gender issues was welcomed.
Source: Daily Nation
More women are throwing their hats in the ring for political posts in western and southern Kenya, in what is expected to be one of the most competitive elections in recent history.
Source: Al Jazeera
Morocco has banned the production and sale of full-face Muslim veils apparently for security reasons, according to local media reports.
Source: Vanguard
Nkemdili Okeke (not real name) is a secondary school certificate holder who got married in 2011 at the age of 25, to a wealthy businessman in the South-Eastern part of Nigeria. Five years after marriage, she was yet to conceive. She was subjected to dehumanising treatments by her husband’s family.
Source: allAfrica
The Government-initiated Command Agriculture programme has benefited women who had the zeal to farm but were facing challenges in accessing loans from banks due to stringent requirements, a beneficiary of the programme Mrs Patience Tapomwa of Belford North Estate in Mazowe has said.
Source: The Guardian
The number of Nigerian women travelling by boat from Libya to Italy almost doubled last year, with the vast majority of new arrivals victims of sex trafficking and exploitation, according to the International Organisation for Migration.
Source: The Guardian
An Egyptian court has upheld an earlier ruling to freeze the assets of three prominent rights activists, the latest chapter in a widening government crackdown against civil society groups.
Source: Media Focus on Africa
Women representation in political life has yet to reach meaningful ratio vis-à-vis their proportion of the nation. Between 1963 and 2013 only 74 women made it to the National Assembly, 49 elected and 25 nominated. The 2013 election in Kenya was the first General Election to incorporate elective and nominated affirmative action seats for women.
Source: Daily Monitor
Traffickers who smuggle Ugandan girls through Kenya to different destinations in the Middle East and South Africa have built a syndicate involving police officers, other security officers and immigration staff from Uganda and Kenya, an investigation by Sunday Monitor has revealed.
Source: The Guardian
Despite recent reforms, and a reputation as one of Africa's most progressive democracies, Kenya is failing to close the gender gap in political representation.
Source: News From HeForShe Nigeria
HeForShe National launch in Nigeria
Under the leadership of the Federal Ministry of Women’s Affairs & Social Development in Nigeria, and with the technical and financial support of UN Women, a Technical Working Group has been been officiated last November, to guide, direct and implement the various steps leading to the national launch of the "HeForShe" global initiative and advocacy and campaign action in Nigeria during the first quarter of 2017.
Source: UNICEF
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa, 11 October 2016 – Fifteen-year-old Nomonde Malaza smiles as she walks through the corridors of Johannesburg’s OR Tambo International Airport. Although she is not catching a flight or travelling to far-off places, being here today is a dream come true. Nomonde is at the airport for a mentorship programme with the Airports Company South Africa (ACSA) – an opportunity she may never have had were it not for an initiative called Techno Girl.
Source: UN Women
UN Women Deputy Executive Director, Lakshmi Puri, together with the Permanent Representative of Germany to the United Nations, Harald Braun and the Permanent Observer of the African Union to the United Nations, Téte António, launched the “Women’s Leadership Initiative for Stability in Africa” on 14 December at an event in New York.
Source: Thomson Foundation
Women in the Lake Chad basin have been forced to sell sex to survive due to a conflict that has driven millions from their homes and left children to starve, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) said on Thursday.
Source: News Deeply
There is a common misconception among lesbians and health practitioners in Africa that women who have sex with each other are immune to sexually transmitted diseases. Tiffany Mugo is on a mission to change that.
Source: Thomson Foundation
The parents of the 21 Chibok schoolgirls freed by Boko Haram in October after two and a half years in captivity must be involved in the Nigerian government's efforts to care for the girls and reintegrate them into society, campaigners said on Friday.
Source: UN Women
As world leaders attend the Convention on Climate Change (COP 22) in Morocco from 7 – 18 November, UN Women’s Country Representative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Awa Ndiaye Seck, underlines the importance of empowering women through sustainable and climate-resilient agriculture. UN Women will launch its flagship programme on climate-resilient agriculture in the DRC this year.
Source: allAfrica
No French soldiers have been charged as judges wrap up an investigation into allegations of sexual abuse relating to France's Sangaris operation in the wartorn Central African Republic (CAR).