Source: AllAfrica
Token legal reforms have failed to end widespread public, domestic and state violence against women and girls in Egypt, who face sexual abuse, mob attacks, and torture in custody, a a rights group report said on Wednesday.
Source: The Daily Beast
With Ebola still raging in Sierra Leone, a small sliver of hope has emerged: female genital mutilation has halted. Could this be the beginning of the end for the dangerous procedure?
Source: Times of Oman
Muscat: Africa's "premier diva" Angélique Kidjo was the sunshine after a rainy day when she performed at the Royal Opera House Muscat on Monday evening.
Source: BlackNews.com
The images of dark-skinned black girls in the media can be negative, stereotypical, angry and sad.
Source: Biztech Africa
Over 300 girls in the Upper West region of Ghana will be receiving hands-on education on Information and Communication Technology (ICT), thanks to the Soronko Solutions Road show known as the Tech Needs Girls programme, a mentorship programme in which girls between the ages of 6-18 are mentored to be innovative by learning to code or create technology.
Source: News24
Girls with bachelor passes are sweeping past boys to snap up the lion's share of places at higher education institutions - but why aren't these bright young things reaching the workplace? News24 unravels the mystery.
Source: AFK Insider
More girls are enrolling in school, but there are still enormous gaps. The World Bank reports that, while secondary school enrollment has soared in low-income countries, in Africa and South Asia boys are still 1.55 times more likely to finish secondary school than girls.
Source: The Justice
On Thursday, Prof. Shulamit Reinharz Ph.D. '72 (SOC), founder of the Women's Studies Research Center, introduced the most recent lecturer. She explained, "95 percent of the lectures given here from 2001 to now have been by the 85 scholars who work here.
Source: StarAfrica
The World Bank has approved $170.2 million for women and adolescent girls to expand their access to reproductive, child and maternal health services in five countries in Africa's Sahel region and the Economic Community of Western African States (ECOWAS).
Source: Yahoo News
Experts say Nigeria's Boko Haram appears to be increasing its use of a particularly brutal terrorist tactic: forcing abducted girls to blow themselves up in crowded spaces.
Source: Al Monitor
Egyptian women have been using a number of hashtags — among them #Idon'tFeelSafeOnTheStreet, #AntiHarassment and #ExposeHarasser — on social networking sites to speak up about the daily sexual harassment they experience. These campaigns are part of an effort to expose harassers and break the silence surrounding their crimes, which are haunting women in Egypt. Women have tweeted myriad incidents along with advocating the courage to expose and confront harassers.
Source: Africa News CN
Children in northeastern Nigeria were in desperate need of protection from relentless violence, a UN spokesman said on Friday.
Source: AFK Insider
Akaliza Kera Gara is one of Rwanda's leading female technology entrepreneurs and founder of Sharing Sun, a multimedia business.
Source: Medical Daily
Amid the climbing death toll, the Ebola outbreak has unexpectedly brought female genital mutilation (FGM) to a standstill after FGM practitioners decided to refuse to do the procedure due to fear of Ebola transmission through bodily fluids.
Source: Business Day Live
Nigerians fleeing a wave of killings by the extreme Islamist group Boko Haram have already lost loved ones, livelihoods and most of their possessions.
Source: All Africa
PLEDGE by the government to offer free secondary school education for all comes amid serious call by activists for elimination of unbefitting traditions of paying bride price to unborn children.
Source: MSF
The MSF duty surgeon in Yambio received a distress call from the maternity ward on a rainy Friday afternoon.
Source: MSF
On the bright morning of 3 November 2014, Adem, a 29-year-old mother of three arrived at the Yambio State Hospital's maternity ward with advanced labour pains.
Source: Morocco World News
The first Moroccan woman on the list is Minister Delegate to the Minister of Foreign Affairs & Cooperation, Mbarka Bouaida, who ranked 7th, followed by Fatiha Mejatti, the "black widow of Jihad" and a member of the Islamic State's (IS) media committee, who ranked 13th.
Source: Pri
South Africa's economy under apartheid put huge pressure on black families.