Source: BBC
Girls in parts of Tanzania are often forced to undergo female genital mutilation, even though the practice is illegal. Faced with FGM, many had nowhere to turn - until now. A safe house has opened in the north of the country to offer protection when they need it most.
Source: Reuters
Broadening access to contraceptives in Africa's arid Sahel region and improving women's sexual health are key parts of a $200 million World Bank project in the conservative Muslim region, its coordinator said.
Source: Times of Zambia
THREE months after delivering a baby girl, Tina Mwale became pregnant again because of contraceptive failure and was not ready to care for another baby soon.
Source: Nehanda Radio
Late South Africa's first black President Nelson Mandela's widow Graca Machel was in Zimbabwe last week to launch the Network of African Business Women (NABW).
Source: ANGOP
The government official said so at the opening of the conference with the theme "Woman, her education, job and main challenges" held in the ambit of the activities programmed by the Education Ministry as part of the celebrations of the country's forty years of independence, to be marked on November 11.
Source: RFI
Children will finally be returning to their classes throughout Sierra Leone on Monday after an eight-month hiatus due to the Ebola crisis. But there will be empty chairs at many schools. Some students will find out that their classmates fell victim to the deadly Ebola virus while others will not make it because they are barred from school.
Source: The New Times
First Lady Jeannette Kagame has called for continued efforts toward women empowerment to achieve more financial inclusion and economic progress.
Source: The Guardian
Growing up in a village in north-eastern Tunisia, Ahlam Ben Ahmad had to walk up to 4km to reach a hospital, buy food or attend school. She often got sick from the long journey, and dropped out of school two years before graduation because of her long commute.
Source: Swazi Observer
The main objective of WWT is to create a transformative, inspirational and empowering social networking platform for women in Swaziland The initiative showcases women's talents, ideas and markets their businesses.
Source: News24
It was just 07:00 and Hoda was walking alone to a clinic in the Moroccan coastal city of Agadir. She skipped breakfast: the Senegalese doctor had told her that the abortion would be better done on an empty stomach.
Source: Thomson Reuters Foundation
A blood-stained machete outside a mud-walled shack in a remote Tanzanian village is a reminder of how Pili Kidawa narrowly escaped death after coming under attack from a mob of angry villagers accusing her of being a witch.
Source: Zambia Daily Mail
Zambia has launched the 2014-2018 strategic plan aimed at expanding HIV and community sexual reproductive health rights (SRHR) in women, girls and adolescents.
Source: Vibe Ghana
Female members of Parliament from the Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) have urged the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) not to waver in its policy to fully implement the affirmative action policy.
Source: Libya Herald
Human rights defenders in Libya face threats of physical attacks, abduction, harm to their family and even murder on a daily basis, said a joint report of the UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights (OHCHR) and UNSMIL.
Source: DailyTrust
Recently, Women and Stakeholders rose from the United Nation's 59th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) Conference held in New York with the call for the inclusion of political and economic development demands of women in the successor framework of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Source: VibeGhana
Female members of Parliament from the Minority New Patriotic Party (NPP) have urged the party's National Executive Committee (NEC) not to waver in its policy to fully implement the affirmative action policy. The policy is to disallow males from contesting sitting female MPs in 16 constituencies.
Source:Mail&Guardian
Earlier this month, when President Jacob Zuma said that teenage mothers should be separated from their children and sent "far away" to Robben Island where they would be "forced to go to school", even he forecast a backlash. "I am sure people are going to protest as I am talking now," he said.
Source: WeNews
The most recent, 59th, session of the Commission on the Status of Women drew representatives of more than 1,100 nongovernmental groups who participated in over 600 events across the city, according to U.N. officials, making it the largest ever feminist gathering at the U.N., nearly double the annual average participation.
Source: TheNewDawn
The Ministry of Gender and Social Children Protection has emphasized the need for the protection of the rights of every woman and Child in the country.
Source: AFKinsider
Sex workers in Zimbabwe are getting creative with mobile technology, using mobile money services to get paid on cell-phones and smartphones, and social media to alert human rights activists when they encounter violence, according to reports in VenturesAfrica and NewZimbabwean.