Source: Reuters
Morocco expelled two French women activists who bared their breasts and kissed each other outside an ancient mosque on Tuesday in a protest about gay rights in a country where homosexuality is illegal.
Source: Malawi24
Malawi's ex leader and first female President Joyce Banda is out of the list of 2015 Most Powerful Women in the World, a list she got recognition in during the time she was in power.
Source: The Star
First Lady Margaret Kenyatta has urged Meru county residents to shun retrogressive culture.
Source: Times Premium
Only six out of the 109 senators who will serve in the 8th National Assembly are women, the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports.
Source: Leadership
Ondo State Police Command has arrested four students of Adeyemi College of Education, Ondo, for allegedly gang-raping a female student of the institution.
Source: The New Dawn
The Sweden Embassy near Monrovia and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality, and UN WOMEN have signed a six-month Gender Sector Support Program Preparatory Phase Project in Monrovia.
Source:AllAfrica
In the late 1990s, the United Nations defined its third Millennium Development Goal as the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women.
Source:The Guardian
At a dispensary in Nyaluoyo village in western Kenya, there is just one midwife on duty. There are three women in labour, about 40 children waiting to be vaccinated, and another 15 people with other ailments.
Source: Leadership
The Women in Politics Forum [WIPF] a network of women groups yesterday demanded for a 50 per cent equity in the distribution of appointments in the incoming government of President Elect, Gen Muhammadu Buhari.
Source:United Nations News Centre
More open and constructive dialogues should be held among Sudanese stakeholders as a top priority to address ‘the silence and the denials’ of crimes against women, a United Nations human rights expert concluded after her recent mission to the country.
Source:AllAfrica
AN independent fibre optic infrastructure and telecommunications services provider across West Africa, Phase3 Telecom, is soliciting for early education and consistent technology training for the girl child in order to sustain them and active in the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) space.
Source: The Observer
The undertaking of oil exploration typically has profound social, cultural and political impacts - both negative and positive, both in the country at large and in the region of operation.
Source: The Star
Four women arrested by Kenya Defence Forces officers in Mandera while allegedly trying to leave the country to join Islamic State fighters in Syria have been denied bail by a Mombasa court.
Source: NewsDay
Maternal conditions and cervical cancer are among the top causes of death in Zimbabwe with more than 1 400 women dying annually from cancer-related illnesses.
Source: New Kerala
More open and constructive dialogues should be held among Sudanese stakeholders as a top priority to address 'the silence and the denials' of crimes against women, a United Nations human rights expert concluded after her recent mission to the country.
Source:Times of Zambia
THE World Bank Group has approved a loan worth US$130 million for the implementation of the Girls’ Education, Women’s Empowerment and Lusaka sanitation projects.
Source:IoL News
Zanzibar, Tanzania - Natasha Ali was devastated when she realised the man accused of snatching her 14-year-old daughter off a street in Zanzibar and raping her had been freed for lack of evidence.
Source: All Africa
Africa must fully endorse the role of women's empowerment and gender equality as a key driver of the process of sustainable development on the continent, the group of African women ambassadors to Zimbabwe has said.
Source: Reuters
Casablanca — Every day hundreds of Moroccan women and girls put their lives at risk by seeking backstreet abortions or trying to end unwanted pregnancies themselves with needles and poison.
Source: The Point
Another female has defied the odds and the traditions in The Gambia by venturing into the male dominant area of commercial taxi driving.