Source: News24
THE United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) has called for the immediate release of abducted school girls in Chibok, Borno State.
Source: Daily Independent
Six of the 10 countries that carry most of the burden of maternal deaths in the world are from Africa. This was highlighted from the newly-published report, "Trends in maternal mortality estimates 1990 to 2013".
Source: The New York Times
ABUJA, Nigeria — A second kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria's northeast by Islamist militants put new pressure on the country's troubled government, which had been hoping to showcase its emergence as Africa's largest economy this week but instead has been forced to confront its failure to contain a growing insurgency in its north.
Source: AlertNet
Nairobi — Pregnancy-related deaths in Ethiopia have fallen by nearly two-thirds, making it the African country that has most successfully lowered its maternal mortality rate thanks to its lifesaving investment in female health workers and girls' education, Save the Children said on Tuesday.
Source: UNAIDS
Maternal deaths have decreased by 45% since 1990 according to a new report released on 6 May by the Maternal Mortality Estimation Inter-Agency Group. Entitled Trends in maternal mortality: 1990 to 2013, the report estimates that 289 000 women died in 2013 owing to complications in pregnancy and childbirth, down from 523 000 in 1990.
Source: Daily Independent
Abuja — The meeting of women stakeholders convened by the First Lady, Patience Jonathan, over the abducted girls of a secondary school in Chibok, rose on Monday morning with a unanimous declaration that contradictory narratives given by the major actors showed that no girls were abducted.
Source: Daily Independent
Lagos — One of the unique features of this year's Women of Destiny Conference, organised by the Daystar Christian Centre, Lagos, last weekend, was the move to lend a feminine voice to the agitations of Nigerians for the release of the over 200 girls abducted over two weeks ago in Chibok, Benue State.
Source: Think Africa Press
ANALYSIS
The Nigerian Islamist sect has kidnapped 234 school girls. Why?
Less than 24 hours after an explosion ripped through the Nyanya Motor Park in Nigeria's capital, Abuja, reports of another act of terror filtered in from the country's north east
Source: allAfrica
PRESS RELEASE
Supporters will rally at the Embassy of Nigeria on May 6, 2014 to pressure idle government officials to take measurable actions to save the newly estimated 276 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram militants in the northeastern Nigerian village of Chibok.
Source: DW
Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for the abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls, a day after President Goodluck Jonathan ordered a three day shut down of the capital Abuja during the World Economic Conference.
Source: DW
Islamist group Boko Haram has claimed responsibility for kidnapping more than 200 teenage schoolgirls and is threatening to sell them. The girls have been held for three weeks.
Source: The Guardian
Islamist militants' leader threatens to sell the more than 270 girls abducted in north-east Nigeria on 14 April.
The leader of Nigerian Islamist extremist group Boko Haram has said that more than 270 schoolgirls snatched from their dormitories were "slaves" whom he planned to sell in the market.
Source: Daily News Egypt
Four political parties and seven civil society organisations strongly criticised the passage of laws dealing with upcoming parliamentary elections without consultation with women’s groups and organisations.
Source: Star Africa
Malawi will on Tuesday launch a five-year National Girls Education Strategy (NGES) to guide interventions for the enrolment of girls as well as the creation of a conducive environment to allow them to excel in school.According to a statement from Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, the ceremony will also be used to launch a National Girls Education Communication Strategy (NGECS).
Source: The Star
A group of women in Murang'a county have taken the lead to protect Ndakaini dam which is the main source of water for Nairobi residents -- by planting trees.
Source: allAfrica
Eight gender based violence (GBV) survivors have hailed the Gender Links entrepreneurship and self-sustaining skills course that aims to economically empower women. This came out during the different presentations made by the GBV survivors during the just ended SADC Protocol@Work Summit in Zambia.
Source: The Rwanda Focus
The World Bank director of Gender and Development, Jeni Klugman, yesterday visited schools in Kigali that are part of the Adolescent Girls Initiative (AGI), a project sponsored by the WB.
Source: Financial Gazette
I am sharing health tips to women in their 40s, by one, Jenny Blake. Women in their forties are very active, often working and raising families, with little time to take care of themselves. At this point in a woman's life, making good health choices will keep her looking and feeling good, and can prevent the onset of many chronic type diseases.
Source: Heritage
A Certified Midwife assigned at the Boegeesay Health Center in Rivercess County has alarmed over the numerous challenges confronting the medical facility.
Source: This Day Live
A former member of the House of Representative, Hon. Binta Masi Garba, has emerged the Chairman of the Adamawa State All Progressives Congress (APC).