Source: Garowe Online
Women from the 17 districts of Mogadishu have staged anti-Al Shabaab protest in Mogadishu in support of lasting peace and tranquility across the war-ravaged nation on Sunday, Garowe Online reports.
Source: PRI
For women in the African nation of Malawi, giving birth brings a high risk of death. The predominantly rural country has long had one of the highest rates of maternal mortality in the world.
Source: South Africa Info
South Africa will make transdermal implant contraceptives freely available in the country's public clinics from next week, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi announced in Cape Town on Tuesday.
Source: Deutsch Welle
Three years ago Libya was hurtling headlong into the revolution that culminated in the death of Moammar Gadhafi. Although instrumental in the fall of the regime, women face mixed fates in the country of new men.
Source: Postcrecent
Tunisia's new constitution is the first one in the Arab world to guarantee equality between men and women - a milestone that might have been impossible without the efforts of people like Ahlem Belhadj, the country's most prominent feminist.
Source: IOL News
Tripoli - The Libyan government decided on Wednesday to recognise as "war victims" women who suffered sexual violence during the 2011 popular uprising that ousted and killed long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
Source: Aljazeera
Human Rights Watch recently released a report documenting the torture and sexual abuse of women held in prisons in Iraq. Tragically, such reports are all too familiar. Stories of women raped and subjected to other forms of sexual violence in South Sudan, the Central African Republic, and Syria reinforce the common perception that sexual violence against
Source: Dar Es Salam
A research carried out by the Tanzania Media Women Association (Tamwa) has shown that gender violence is perpetrated notoriously in most Zanzibar Districts.
Source: All Africa
A Nigerian organization dedicated to promoting the rights of women in the country's legal systems has received a major award from an American foundation for its "outsized impact" in improving the lives of people and communities.
Source: Africa Renewal
Do land, seeds and crops have a gender? Perhaps they do in sub-Saharan Africa, where women produce up to 80% of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets, according to a report by the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). For crops such as rice, wheat and maize, which make up about 90% of food
Source: Premium Times
A former Minister of Women Affairs, Josephine Anenih, has suggested the castration of rapists to serve as a deterrent to men with such tendencies.
Source: Voice of America (VOA)
The head of the U.N. agency that fights for gender equality and the empowerment of women said Wednesday that women and children have borne the brunt of the conflict in South Sudan, and called for women to play a leading role at peace talks under way in Addis Ababa.
Source: Vanguard
Dr. Ada Chenge is a renowned politician in Benue State and presently, the only female gubernatorial aspirant in the contest for the 2015 Peoples Democratic Party, PDP gubernatorial ticket.
Source: The New Times
Hundreds of Rwandan women took part in the 'One Billion Rising for Justice Walk last week.One Billion Rising is a global campaign seeking to end all forms of violence against women and girls.
Source: Sudan Tribune
(KHARTOUM) – An 18-year-old Ethiopian woman who said she was gang raped by seven men in Sudan has been found guilty of committing indecent acts and is also facing a possible jail term for immigration offences.
Source: Sudan Tribune
Khartoum — An 18-year-old Ethiopian woman, who was gang raped by seven men in Sudan, is facing a possible death sentence after being charged with adultery and prostitution.
Source: This Day
The Lagos State Government has given the statistics of maternal mortality recorded in its public health facilities between 2010 and 2012 to be 714 women.
Source: The Star
Former MP and new chair of the Anti-Female Genital Mutilation board Linah Kilimo attended the launch of a new campaign to fight the vice at the Panafric Hotel in Nairobi last Thursday evening.
Source: allAfrica
Bukoba — RESIDENTS in Kagera Region have been urged to make use of the Police Gender Unit and report incidents of gender based violence.
Source: The World Bank
Washington — The World Bank's Board of Executive Directors has approved support to Togo that will help the country offer lifesaving health and nutrition services to over 1.3 million people, nearly 60 percent of whom are women and girl children under the age of five.