Source: All Africa
An Ethiopian woman whose terrifying ordeal of kidnap and rape at the hands of her would-be husband inspired Angelina Jolie's new film Difret says she hopes her story will help end the tradition of child bride abductions.
Source: BBC World
Zeinab Badawi moderates a live audience who will grill African decision-makers about equality for women.
Source: MG Africa
26% of households across the continent are headed by women; the probability that a woman heads a household has been increasing in all regions.
Source: All Africa
The President, Voice of Women in Nigeria Leadership Initiative, an NGO, Hajiya Halima Tijjani, has called on women to encourage girl-child education to bridge discrimination against women.
Source: Shabelle News
Somali ministry of women and human rights said it is setting up plans to eradicate crimes against humanity and the gender‐based violence in the country.
Source: Daily Monitor
Stakeholders in health service delivery in South Western Uganda have noted that without deliberate involvement and targeting of other key stakeholders in tackling reproductive, maternal, newborn and child health, government efforts to reverse the trend of maternal and child deaths will never achieve a remarkable progress.
Source: The UN Refugee Agency
The UN refugee agency said today it was concerned by "credible testimonies" it has received of sexual violence and abuse against refugee and migrant women and children on the move in Europe and called on authorities to take steps to ensure their protection.
Source: Mail & Guardian Africa
LOCAL doctors told Aida Abdulla her chest pain was an infection, arthritis or muscle strain. But when she travelled to a hospital in Khartoum months later she was diagnosed with breast cancer.
Source: the Guardian
As the most populous city in Africa, life in Lagos can present a number of urban challenges. Since 2004, Nigeria has seen a 5% increase in the number of people living below $1 per day, despite recently overtaking South Africa as the continent's largest economy.
Source: Mail & Guardian Africa
OVER the past two decades, poverty in sub-Saharan Africa has fallen from 56% in 1990 to 43% in 2012, and is projected to fall even further, to 35% this year.
Source: Mail & Guardian Africa
OVER the past two decades, poverty in sub-Saharan Africa has fallen from 56% in 1990 to 43% in 2012, and is projected to fall even further, to 35% this year.
Source: UN Woman
A dozen of the women candidates trained by UN Women and partners speak about the challenges they've faced in the lead-up to this weekend's presidential, parliamentary and local elections and how the training has motivated them.
Source: All Africa
The Ministry of Gender, Children and Social Protection has formulated and launched a Child and Family Welfare Policy (CFWP) which is designed to prevent and protect children from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation.
Source: All Africa
When will an FGM bill find its way to the National Assembly? It is a question many have asked, the young, old, children, boys, girls, activists, and NGOs. Yet there is no concrete answer given as to when there will be an FGM bill making its way to the National Assembly, wining the hearts and minds of our parliamentarians and a little debate that will lead to an enactment of a law banning the practice.
Source: All Africa
The Ministry of Health said Ethiopia has registered better results in reducing maternal, child mortality in GTP I period.
Source: All Africa
Whether one likes it or not, Namibian society has become a killing field of sorts - killings perpetrated predominantly against women and children. In recent months the murder of defenseless women and children, especially girl children, has continued with unfailing regularity.
Source: All Africa
Egyptian women won 30 seats in the House of Representatives according to preliminary results of the first phase of parliamentary elections, which saw a turnout of 26.56 percent in 14 provinces including the capital's twin governorate of Giza.
Source: All Africa
Poor women in cities in developing countries are 50 percent less likely than poor men to use the Internet, and blame the high cost and their lack of skills for the gap, researchers said on Wednesday.
Source: Foot Print To Africa
The Nigeria's Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, Sunny Echono, said women are the foundation of agricultural production, processing, marketing and utilisation in the country, Footprint to Africa reports.
Source: BusinessGhana
The West Africa Network for Peacebuidling (WANEP) has called for the legal empowerment of women politically and economically, to enable them play equal part in peace and security.