Source: allAfrica
Kisubi — The Uganda Olympic Committee (UOC) is laying strategies to ensure women occupy at least 50 per cent of leadership roles in Ugandan sports federations in the next five years. Through the Women in Sport Commission, UOC has so far trained 232 women in modern sports management. 200 of those have attained certificates in sports management while 32 are to be honoured with diplomas in Advanced Sports Management.
Source: allAfrica
Luanda — The emancipation of women and gender equality are the result of a complex process of removing barriers that often requires a weighted practice of actions in favor of it, said Tuesday in Luanda, the Minister of Family and woman Promotion (MINFAMU), Filomena Delgado.
Source: IPS
UNITED NATIONS, Dec 13 2016 (IPS) - Achieving gender equality in UN staff appointments will be a “clear priority” for incoming UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, when he takes up the UN’s top administrative role in January 2017.
Source: Reuters
BUNAMBIYU, Tanzania, Dec 6 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - As the darkness falls on the plains around Bunambiyu, a remote village in Tanzania's northern Shinyanga region, Elizabeth Julius switches on her solar lantern to finish sewing clothes for her customers.
Source: Human Rights Watch
(Beirut) – Police arrested a leading Egyptian women’s rights defender at her home in Cairo on December 7, 2016, a serious escalation in the authorities’ ongoing crackdown on independent rights groups, Human Rights Watch said today.
The pervasive gender gap in economic activities is constraining the African continent from achieving its full economic potential, averaging a loss of about $95 billion annually or $580 billion in sub-Saharan Africa since 2010.
Efforts at eradicating the female genital mutilation, FGM, in Osun received a boost on Tuesday as 12 communities across four local governments declared their intentions to completely stop the practice.
Source: The Herald
Loud ululations capture the moment and joy reflected on the people's faces. The local authority has just announced that it will invest in constructing a borehole for the community.
SALGA calls for all political parties to respect and advance the imperative of gender equality.
Members of various religious groups in Malawi held street protests Tuesday against a proposed law that would expand women’s ability to terminate a pregnancy.
Source: allAfrica
Victoria — A new hospital offering specialized care for women and children will open in February, the Seychelles health authorities announced on Tuesday.
Source: news24
Lagos – Frustrated by living in poverty, gender discrimination and deep-rooted patriarchy, women in northeast Nigeria could easily be forced into joining the ranks of extremist groups, analysts have said.
Source: Morocco World News
Rabat – Stephanie Willman and Saida Kouzzi, along with a slew of NGOs and women’s rights activists, are working to change this.
Source: Algerie Presse Service
WASHINGTON- The strengthening of women’s participation in the political life in Algeria has been hailed as leading experience in the promotion of the Arab women’s leadership, as part of the Fifth Annual Arab-American Day held in Washington.
Source: MGAfrica
Young female African entrepreneurs must speak out and act as role models to inspire other women to shake up a profession dominated by white men, according to the co-founder of a business helping women entrepreneurs in Nigeria.
Tanzanian police in the Tarime/Rorya Special Zone and their Kenyan counterparts have agreed to cooperate in the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM).
Source: The Herald
Zimbabwe has made significant strides over women in the workplace and is now ranked sixth out of 27 countries including the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) member countries on the African continent, a recent study has shown.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"We give practical training to girls in colleges on how energy is generated from the sun, water and human waste," says one training organisation
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
"For some women trapped in domestic life, Boko Haram offers an escape"
Source: allAfrica
Dakar — "It's hard for young female African entrepreneurs to feel like they fit in, if they can't see any role models out there"