Source: The Standard
It requires concerted efforts on many fronts with government, civic society and community leaders all pulling together.
In 2011, all these fronts converged in Harare for the second national Aids conference, which ran under the theme Eliminate New HIV Infections in Children, Keep Mothers Alive.
Source: Tanzania Daily News
RESIDENTS in Kagera Region have been urged to take a holistic approach to fight against gender imbalance and gender based violence by utilizing the Police Gender Unit.
Source: IRIN News
Youth unemployment and underemployment are among the main barriers to development in West Africa, say experts. Not only does the exclusion of young people from the labour force perpetuate generational cycles of poverty, it also breaks down social cohesion and can be associated with higher levels of crime and violence among idle youth.
Source: Daily Trust
The staff of the Yola branch of Fidelity Bank Plc has renovated two workshop blocks and donated sewing machines to the Women Development Centre in Yola, Adamawa state.
Source: Daily News
Unlike many other days on the calendar where a certain day signifies the commemoration of an event and a lot of the times these commemorations have a happy connotation to it, February 6, isn't one of them unfortunately.
Every February 6, the world receive the day with heads bowed because it is the International Day of Zero Tolerance for Female Genital Mutilation.
Source: AlertNET
London community worker Sarian Karim Kamara underwent female genital mutilation (FGM) as a child in Sierra Leone. Karim Kamara, who moved to Britain in 1999, says far more needs to be done to protect thousands of girls at risk in the UK.
Source: South African Government News Agency
In celebration of the Reproductive Health Month, Gauteng Department of Health has encouraged pregnant women to know their health status and that of their children.
"The drive to encourage our people to know their health status will not only assist the department in its goal to reduce infant, child and maternal deaths but will also ensure that the mothers and their babies live a long and healthy life," said Gauteng Health MEC, Hope Papo.
Source: Amnesty International
The Egyptian authorities must immediately and unconditionally release three women arrested last November at a protest at Mansoura University, said Amnesty International.
Source: New Zimbabwe
THE loss of land and a gender hierarchy, among other factors, are forcing some young girls - with parental consent - to forsake school and turn to sex work on diamond mines in the Marange region of eastern Zimbabwe.
"Commercial sex among girls as young as 12 years has become a natural way out of poverty for these children and their families.
Source: Voice of America
Dakar — Ibtihaj Muhammad was the first-ever female Muslim athlete to compete on behalf of the United States in an international competition. Muhammad spoke to an all-girls school in Dakar Friday about her experiences as a female African-American Muslim fencer.
Source: Voice of America
Africa now has three female heads of state, after Catherine Samba-Panza of the Central African Republic took office in January. Though women leaders remain the exception in African politics, activists say things are looking up.
Women are breaking into the "boys club" of the African presidency.
Source: Times of Zambia
THE step taken by Young Men Christian Association (YMCA) to train 20 men as its ambassadors to spearhead Its "Good Husband Campaign" aimed at reducing rising cases of Sexual and Gender Based Violence (SGBV) against women in Eastern Province is a step in right direction.
Source: KC Team
As a single mother of seven, Ajeng*, 35, was forced into sex work to support her children when she could find no other job.
In 2006, Ajeng discovered she was living with HIV and as a result her marriage broke down.
Source: Destinyconnect
Government's 2013 announcement of a bill that would force companies and the public sector to have women in 50% of their decision-making positions has been met with much criticism and debate.
Source: Genderlinks
Johannesburg, 7 February: While South Africa celebrates 20 years of democracy this year, the country will also be holding its national election, the first since 1994, without Madiba. If the last two months are anything to go by, we will surely witness one of the most interesting, perhaps entertaining, elections yet.
Source: Care2
At least 125 million women and girls have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM) in Africa and the Middle East, according to a UNICEF report issued on Monday. In 50 percent of the countries practicing FGM — roughly 29 across the two regions — the procedure involves girls under five years old. In other countries, FGM occurs when girls are between the ages of 5 and 14.
Source: Sudan Tribune
Khartoum — An 18-year-old pregnant Ethiopian woman who was the victim of a brutal gang-rape last August in Omdurman has been sleeping on the concrete floor of a police cell since her arrest on 17 January, advocacy group, the Strategic Initiative for Women in the Horn of Africa (SIHA), said in a public statement on Tuesday.
Source: Daily Trust
Kaduna — One woman dies of cervical cancer in every two minutes worldwide while about 9,659 die of the disease every year in Nigeria, the Managing Director, Society for Family Health (SFH) Sir Bright Ekweremadu said in Kaduna yesterday.
Source: Leadership (Abuja)
The Kaduna State Government said on Thursday that 1,500 women have been trained under its SURE-P programme in the state. This is contained in a document released by the state Ministry for Women Affairs and obtained by the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna.
Source: The Daily Observer
The Gambia Investment and Export Promotion Agency (GIEPA) Wednesday commissioned a water project through the installation of four standpipes at the Denton Bridge in Banjul, meant to support the Sarro Women Association (SWA) in their small-scale agricultural production ventures.