Source: Daily News Egypt
North African countries are approaching universal levels of access to primary education, with an enrolment rate of 99% in 2012, compared to 80% in 1990, the United Nations' 2014 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) Report showed.
Source: Daily Nation
In a politically charged environment, good things can easily go unnoticed. For the women's movement in Kenya, June 18, 2014 was a good day.
Source: allAfrica
For 22-year-old Moselyn Muchena, a final year computer science student at the University of Zimbabwe, it seemed obvious to create a mobile application offering easy access to services in the local catering industry, largely because of the huge number of female entrepreneurs in that sector.
Source: PBS
After gaining its independence three years ago, South Sudan got a rush of media attention. But the continued internal fighting has cast the nascent country in a harsh light. The women at the Roots Project are hoping their handiwork and cooperation will show a different, more promising side of South Sudan.
Source: New Era
The Commission of the African Union has heaped praise on the Namibian government for taking bold steps in tackling the upsurge in gender-based violence (GBV).
Source: Voices of Africa
Friday 4 July, Independence Day. There will be speeches, celebrations and fireworks. But these celebrations will be taking place on the other side of the world from the US, because on Friday, the central African country of Rwanda will mark its own Liberation Day.
Source: Huffington Post
Nelson Mandela once said: "Whenever I am with young people, I feel like a recharged battery." I couldn't agree more, after having spent the last couple of days with a good bunch of the Women Deliver Young Leaders at the Partnership on Maternal, Child and Newborn Health (PMNCH) Partners' Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Source: The New Times
President Paul Kagame has said that women's 64 per cent representation in Rwanda's Lower House should not be seen as an end in itself with regard to women empowerment in the country.
Source: Allafrica
It has been announced that the Ministry of Gender and Development, the Ministry of Information, Cultural Affairs and Tourism and the Women's NGO Secretariat (WONGOSOL), working with the Access to Information Project of The Carter Center, will release the study "Women and the Right of Access to Information in Liberia."
Source: Daily News Egypt
On Monday President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi met with Mohamed Fayek, president of the government-backed National Council for Human Rights (NCHR), to discuss ways to improve personal and political freedom in Egypt, and the state of the country's prisons.
Source: Leadership
The Council of State said yesterday that it had been assured by the military that the over 200 schoolgirls held captive by the Boko Haram sect since they were abducted on April 14 this year will regain their freedom very soon.
Source: GhanaWeb
The Executive Director of the Obaapa Development Foundation, Nanahemaa Adjoa Awindor, is pushing for stricter punishment of males who impregnate teenage girls.
Source: The Star
At the African Union Assembly in Maputo in 2003, African heads of state were concerned that 30 per cent of Africans were severely undernourished and that the continent was the largest recipient of food aid. And they pledged to act.
- As Burundi heads towards the 2015 general elections, and despite a quota of 30 percent women’s representation in parliament, women in this southeast African nation feel that they are yet to have a significant say in the management of their country.
Source: Daily Independent
Sixty-three women and girls kidnapped by Boko Haram last month in Nigeria escaped from their captors and have returned to their burnt village, a security source and a local vigilante fighting the militant group said.
Source: SAnews
"Women give life, and the right to life is one that we all hold sacred", highlighted Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa last week at the Partnership for Maternal, Newborn and Child Health 2014 Forum. With less than 500 days remaining before the 2015 Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) deadline, the Forum reminded governments from around the globe that the fight against high maternal and childhood mortality is far from over.
Source: Biztech Africa
The Deputy Director of the British Department for International Development in Ghana (DfID-Ghana), Ms Charlotte Pierce, has pledged the commitment of DfID to working with the Government of Ghana to give all young people the opportunity of good quality education.
Source: Sabahi Online
Somali Ministry of Women and Human Rights in collaboration with the United Nations Population Fund and United Nations Children's Fund opened a three-day training in Mogadishu Sunday (July 6th) on ways to combat gender-based violence (GBV), Somalia's Goobjoog News reported.
Source: The Guardian
Gender-equality quota will give women more power, but may be more concerned with maintaining the status quo
Source: Daily News Egypt
The new tripartite strategy involves prevention, protection and intervention, and will include raising awareness, and the rehabilitation of those perpetrating violence as well as their victims.