Source: Women & Girls Hub News Deeply
South African law requires marriages be conducted by a registered official. But many of the country’s Muslims get married in exclusively religious ceremonies, leaving married Muslim women with little legal protection, say activists.
Source: Think Geoenergy
WING Africa, the African "chapter" of the international group of Women in Geothermal (WING) was officially launched during a reception held on 1 November 2016 at the United Nations Conference Center in Addis Ababa/ Ethiopia.
Source: allAfrica
In 2014, the father of teenager Scholastica Arutiang refused to pay for her secondary school education and instead encouraged her to get married.
Source: allAfrica
Tanzania is committed to ensure strong political commitment to family planning at all levels, increase national financing for family planning commodities as well as to strengthen contraceptive commodity security.
Source: allAfrica
Kinshasa, DRC — Over the course of the past three years, the DRC has reduced incidents of sexual violence by half, from 15,000 cases in 2013 to 7,500 cases in 2015, according to a UN Security Council Preliminary Report on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.
Source: News Deeply
Every morning at 3 a.m., Esther Katuma, a 34-year-old mother of five, leaves her house in search of water. She hopes to return before her children come home from school for lunch and in time to scare away the baboons that have been devouring the bananas and pawpaws on her farm.
Already blind, Catherine Mwayonga was written off by doctors as having six months to live after being diagnosed with HIV. Fifteen years later, she now helps other disabled HIV-positive Kenyans to demand better treatment and adapt to life with the disease.
Source: allAfrica
As the healthcare segment of a digital industrial company, GE Healthcare is expected to do what any business must do: drive growth and a strong balance sheet.
Source: Thomson Reuters
A Kenyan police officer has been jailed for 20 years for raping a 13-year-old girl, despite saying they are now married, in a case campaigners heralded as a breakthrough in justice in a country where such convictions are rare.
Source: IOL
Johannesburg - When you look at the lists of the most powerful business leaders in Africa, you rarely see women and definitely not young women.
Source: National Mirror
Despite increasing global campaigns to drastically reduce maternal deaths or even eliminate them, Nigeria still loses 111 of its women to pregnancy-related complications daily, a group working on 4th Family Planning Conference in Nigeria, said yesterday.
Source: The Guardian
The number of women in the world’s poorest countries using modern forms of contraception has jumped by more than 30 million in the past four years, according to a report that found the most significant progress had been made in sub-Saharan Africa.
Source: Fair Observer
The growth of cooperatives is one example of how women in the Middle East and North Africa are fighting back and showing resilience.
Source: World.Mic
Ask Aline Kabanda the key to Rwanda's future success, and she will tell you: educating and empowering women.
Source: News Deeply
According to the World Health Organization’s 2006 study on domestic violence, the most common form of violence against women is perpetrated by their intimate partners. But in many parts of Africa, the rape of a woman by her husband isn’t considered a crime.
Source: Premium Times
Government officials and other authorities in Nigeria have raped and sexually exploited women and girls displaced by the conflict with Boko Haram, Human Rights Watch said Monday.
Source: News Deeply
One night earlier this month, a lesbian couple were sleeping at home after having returned from a music festival in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga, in eastern South Africa. They were woken by loud noises outside. Shortly after, a group of men kicked down their door, entered the house and demanded sex.
Source: Front Page Africa
Macdella Cooper, who previously acknowledged to the New York Post that her third child is fathered by football legend and Montserrado County Senator George Weah and expressed interest in becoming the future First Lady of Liberia is now eyeing the Liberian presidency, becoming the first woman to do so for the 2017 Presidential elections.
Source: News Deeply
In early 2013, as women and children fleeing Boko Haram flooded into the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, Fatima Askira watched them arrive to under-resourced makeshift camps with nothing more than the tattered clothes on their backs.
Source: UN Women
Between 1993 and 2005, the civil war in Burundi cost approximately 300,000 lives and left hundreds of thousands displaced. In 2015, strife erupted once again.