Source: Times LIVE
It's December again. The 16th time our country marks the internationally recognised 16-day campaign to prevent violence against women and children. It's punted by the Ministry of Women, Children and People with Disabilities - famous also for corruption and mismanagement.

Source: All Africa
In the penultimate part of our series to mark the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-based Violence, read about how each one of us can participate in ending this vice.

Source: All Africa
Sonke Co-founder to speak at White House rally, and to be recognised alongside U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, and others, with Vital Voices Solidarity Award.

Source: The Citizen
As part of the 16 Days of Activism for no violence against women and children campaign, male members of the South African Police Service (SAPS) and Tshwane Metropolitan Police Department (TMPD) today led a walk aimed at raising awareness in respect of crimes against women and children.

Source: South Africa.info
Acting President Cyril Ramaphosa called on South Africans to build the kind of society to which the late former President Nelson Mandela dedicated his life.

Source: The Daily Times
Sara Mollel, 44, is one of the happiest Maasai women in northern Tanzania's region of Arusha.

Source: The New Times
Women from several social groups in Kigali have welcomed a new project that seeks to teach them multimedia skills in video and photography.

Source: Bloomberg
Marie Odie strokes a purple cocoa pod, sizing it up, before she walks on through the trees on her plantation in central western Ivory Coast. After four years of hard work, she's about to pick her first harvest.

Source: Reuters
Zimbabwe's ruling ZANU-PF party confirmed President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace as the new head of its women's wing at a congress on Saturday, underlining her swift political rise in the troubled southern African country.

Source: Sahara Reporters
Queen mothers in the Brong-Ahafo region of Ghana have unanimously called on the country's parliament not to pass the Plant Bleeders Bill.

Source: Ghana Web
Following the article dated April 8, 2014 by the Ghana News Agency on Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) practices in the Upper East Region which was based on a research from Action Aid Ghana and the Belim Wasa Development Agency; the Coalition of Women in Governance (COWIG) has also investigated a report by a victim and attest to the fact that the practice is still prevailing in that part of the Country.

Source: Voice of America
The African Union’s (AU) Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security says she will lead a delegation to meet with mothers of the abducted Chibok school girls in Nigeria. Militants from the radical Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped over 200 girls from Chibok nearly eight months ago.

Source: Voice of America
The African Union's (AU) Special Envoy for Women, Peace and Security says she will lead a delegation to meet with mothers of the abducted Chibok school girls in Nigeria. Militants from the radical Islamist group Boko Haram kidnapped over 200 girls from Chibok nearly eight months ago.

Source: Deseret News
The ongoing Ebola virus epidemic in West Africa has fueled pessimism and led many commentators to declare that these nations are beyond help and hope.

Source: Daily Independent
Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh has unveiled her Charity Foundation to be known as the Tonto Dikeh Foundation.

Source: UN News
More than half-way through an international campaign to end violence against women, a top United Nations expert on the issue is calling for a binding international legal standard that holds Member States accountable in fighting this widespread human rights violation.

Source: Yahoo News
The huge negative impact of violence against women and girls on the global economy gives international financial institutions a unique role to play in ending it, a new guide on the issue said.

Source: StarAfrica
The head of the European Union mission in Banjul has poured encomiums on what she called Gambia's progress in the protection of women's rights.

Source: Daily Maverick
"A few days ago, I was at a community meeting... We were under a tree."

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