Source:Tanzania Daily News
Zanzibar — WOMEN leaders from various political parties held a meeting in Zanzibar to encourage participation in elections as they called on the authorities to establish a level playing field for all the people.
Source:The Herald
For decades, African women have been active in agriculture, trade, and other economic pursuits. Amajority of them have remained in the informal labour force and always played a supporting role to their spouses. In other words, they carry the social burden; are guardians of their children's welfare and have explicit responsibility to provide for them materially.
Source:All Africa
Two years ago, in his 2013 State of the Nation Address (SONA), South Africa's President Jacob Zuma emphasised the need to improve the status of women in the country. He said that this was a priority for the government.
Source:All Africa
Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor says if women's talents were used in the fields of science, technology and innovation, the world would develop much more progressively.
Source:The Independant
The Nigerian army says it has rescued 200 girls and 93 women from Boko Haram camps in the Sambisa forest.
Source: SpyGhana
Nana Oye Lithur, Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, has called for greater representation of women in decision-making, to bridge the gap of gender inequality.
Source: Times Live
The Democratic Alliance's (DA) Johannesburg caucus leader‚ Vasco Da Gama‚ has thrown his support behind Refiloe Nt'sekhe for the position of the party's deputy federal chairperson.
Source: BDlive
More than 5,000 Burundians fled to Rwanda at the weekend following mounting tensions in the central African country, bringing the number of arrivals this month to nearly 21,000, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.
Source: CNN
Girls rescued from Boko Haram terror camps in Sambisa Forest on Tuesday are "not the Chibok girls," Nigerian Army spokesman Sani Usman said.
Source: VOA
A young Kenyan activist is part of a fast-moving low cost-movement that is tackling the impact of global warming at the local level.
Source: StarAfrica
Lesotho's Minister of Sports Mathibeli Mokhothu on Tuesday launched Future Olympic Women Leaders' Development (FOWLD) programme in Maseru as part of empowering women through sports.
Source: Newsday
The chiefs made the call last Thursday during a workshop organised by the Women Affairs, Gender and Community Development ministry in partnership with Plan International attended by 35 traditional leaders drawn from Masvingo province.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail
Kitwe government has disbursed K200,000 empowerment funds to five women groups in Chililabombwe, district commissioner Stuart Chitumbo has said.
Source: UN News Centre
A major new report released today in seven locations around the world by the United Nations entity for gender equality and women's empowerment (UN Women) calls for the transformation of economies to make women's rights and equality a reality.
Source: The Star
Women legislators have launched a book on the improvement of girls' welfare.
Source: Radio Dabanga
UN Women in Sudan launched two women-operated bakeries in North Darfur on Sunday. The ceremony marked the successful conclusion of a months-long programme designed to provide women living in the camps for the displaced with the means to earn a living in a safe environment.
Source: New Vision
Organizations of women living with HIV and women's rights organizations in Uganda are not adequately accessing funding although billions of Ugandan shillings were spent on HIV and Aids in previous years.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
Tanzania has warned its public officials that using positions of power to extort sexual favours from women will no longer be tolerated after nearly nine in every 10 women in the public sector were estimated to have been sexually harassed.
Source: Malawi News Agency
LandNet Malawi says land grabbing from widows and widowers will be a thing of the past once Malawi Parliament passes the new Customary Land Bill into law.
Source: Leadership
The hope that the 2015 governorship election will produce the first female elected governor in the country has appeared forlorn as the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Architect Darius Ishaku was coasting home to victory in the early stages of result collation in the state.