Source: All Africa
Battles between coal mining companies, the municipalities that host them and affected local residents are now drawing blood with last week's rubber-bullet shootings and arrests of activists (including key women organisers) fighting coal and demanding a decent life in Emahlahleni (formerly Witbank).
Source: Newstime Africa
African women can and will be agents of change for the continent's transformation at all levels.
Source: News24
Zimbabwe president and soon-to-be-elected African Union chairperson, Robert Mugabe, said the representation of women in European parliaments isn't good enough to warrant them advising Africans about the issue.
Source: South Africa.info
Promising young girl coders from Khayelitsha met the Twitter vice-president for engineering, Nandini Ramani, to discuss how to pitch a business idea and how to use social media to grow their success.
Source: The Globe and Mail
Four months after Boko Haram shocked the world by kidnapping more than 200 students, a small group of schoolgirls who narrowly escaped from the Islamist extremists were facing a new dilemma: Should they go back to school?
Source: Global Post
The wives of African presidents on Saturday vowed to rejuvenate the fight against maternal health, gender violence and discrimination to ensure women are critical players in the continent's development.
Source: Mail & Guardian Africa
The 24th African Union summit opened Friday. This year, the theme of the summit is: "Year of Women Empowerment and Development towards Africa's Agenda 2063". Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the Chairperson of the African Union, underlined the importance of the theme, stating that "we must also do more this year to increase the representation of women in government, in the judiciary and other public and private institutions and their participation at the tables in peace negotiations."
Source: All Africa
"By taking part in the 24th African Union (AU) Summit, January 30-31 in Addis Ababa, Tunisia makes a comeback on the African scene," official Spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic Moez Sinaoui said, Thursday.
Source: All Africa
For far too long, women and girls in Africa have faced discrimination and inequalities in the workforce which have not only hurt them, but their families, communities and their countries as a whole.
Source: Daily News Egypt
Violence holds a huge cost for our world. Globally, the cost runs to more than 11% of the world's GDP. But this is not mostly about the highly visible violence that dominates TV and news.
Source: All Africa
The 24th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union Heads of State and Government opens today in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa under the theme: "Year of women empowerment and development towards Africa's Agenda 2063."
Source: The Cairo Post
"Sisi's participation in the African Summit in Addis Ababa is essential, especially after a long absence made them suspect our African loyalty," political science professor at Cairo University Ayman Shabana told The Cairo Post Thursday.
Source: CNBC Africa
The Africa Union scheduled for 29-31 January will see Zimbabwe's ailing President Robert Mugabe taking over the chairmanship.
Source: All Africa
The African Union has declared 2015 the year of "Women's empowerment", and made gender central to its 24th annual summit taking place this month.
Source: All Africa
This is the third in a series of articles analysing regional progress on gender equality and women's empowerment. The January 22 statement by the SADC Electoral Observer Mission (SEOM) to the recently-ended Zambia elections is unique.
Source: Times of Zambia
PRESIDENT Edgar Lungu will kick start his international tasks by giving his maiden speech to the 24th African Union (AU) summit tomorrow in Addis Ababa where a series of high-level bilateral meetings have also been lined up on the sidelines of the summit.
Source: MENAFN.com
Egypt intends to propose a special clause in the African Union (AU) for its role as a mediator in African disputes, according to a foreign ministry statement on Monday.
The move will also outline Egypt's offer to host a headquarters of the African Union Center for post-conflict reconstruction.
Source: Daily Maverick
Are nearly two-thirds of South Africa's estimated 150,000 sex workers HIV-positive?
Source: StarAfrica
The United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) on Wednesday promised to train 60, 000 Nigerian women and girls on Information Communication Technology (ICT) to reduce illiteracy in the country.
Source: StarAfrica
South African President Jacob Zuma will on Friday lead a South African delegation to the 24th ordinary session of the African Union Assembly (AU Summit) to be held in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa, the Presidency said Tuesday.