Source: UN Women
"In Tanzania, women make up more than half of the workforce in the agriculture sector. Majority of these women work on family farms and small plots of land without receiving any payment. Although women farmers in my country work very hard, many remain poor due to multiple barriers, including lack of access to land.
Source: The Guardian Nigeria
This year, the International Day of Rural Women (15 October), puts a spotlight on “Rural Women Cultivating Good Food for All.”
Source: This Day
The federal government has said that it is commencing the distribution of a new innovative HIV test kits for testing of pregnant women in the country.
Source: New Era
Namibia’s police chief has called for severe punishments for adults who rape children as a deterent for a crime that has become all too prevalent.
Source: Voice of America
A South Sudan women's rights activist has been named one of three winners of an award given by Amnesty International USA recognizing women who the group says "protect the dignity, liberties, and lives of women and children in crisis regions."
Source: The Guardian
Failure to ensure women have equal access to the internet hampering developing economies and fuelling gender inequality.
Source: The Herald
After living for long as outright beggars with no means to sustain themselves and their families, women here are slowly learning to work on their own to generate income, thanks to First Lady Auxillia Mnangagwa's intervention through castor bean production, gardening, sewing and knitting projects, among others.
Source: Nation
More than 20 women rights organisations in Isiolo, Wajir, Garissa and Marsabit have agreed to work together in ending gender-based violence (GBV).
Source: UN Women
Born to a farming family, Theresa Mukashyaka and her parents cultivated beans, cassava, sweet potatoes, and other vegetables. They practiced subsistence agriculture but the only crop that would make it to market was beans.
Source: UN Women
Globally, 3.7 billion people do not have access to the internet. Half of them are women. In some parts of the world, the digital gender divide has been shrinking, but data shows it is growing in Africa.
Source: The Herald
For decades, women have been indirectly making huge inputs to economies.
Source: FrontPageAfrica
These are trying times for many Liberians particularly women who most times bear the economic burden of any form of crisis, and the COVID-19 crisis is no exception.
The pandemic has caused a global economic crisis and Liberia, being one of the poorest in Sub-Sahara Africa, has not been spared its brunt.
Source: Nation
Environmentalists want a review of laws and regulations to ensure active involvement of women in conserving the environment. The experts warn that locking women out of land ownership is slowing environmental conservation in Kenya and in the continent.
As the sun rises over the homes and cultivated fields of Miango, it does little to warm up the settlement, which lies 27km outside of Jos, the capital of Nigeria’s central Plateau State. This is Nigeria’s fertile “highlands” and temperatures in Miango, while never rising much over 24 degrees Celsius, can drop to as low as seven degrees. It is still chilly when, after church, groups of children can be seen making their way down a road to congregate at a house in the area. This is the home of Deborah Kangyang Gana.
Source: Daily Monitor
The State minister for Gender and Culture, Ms Peace Mutuuzo, has ordered local authorities in Bukwo District in Sebei Sub-region to identify the Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) cutters, commonly known as surgeons, and hand them over to the government.
Source: UN Women
Irene Auma had just returned home to Ugunja in Western Kenya from Uganda when Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta announced the country would go into lockdown.
“I had just bought goods worth USD 500 from Uganda to sell in my stall at the market,” said Irene. “All my goods perished, there was nothing to sell. Besides, there were police everywhere, so traders could not attempt to sell.”
61 years after Nigeria seized the reins of independence, 1 October is a day of national reflection. The task of nation-building is a lengthy and laborious endeavour and honest introspection of our collective gains and losses must be undertaken as we map our path forward towards the goal of shared peace and prosperity.
Source: VOA
Tunisian President Kais Saied surprised many Wednesday with his appointment of Najla Bouden Romdhane, a 63-year-old professor at a prestigious engineering school, as the country’s first female prime minister.
Source: The New Times
Different key players in the private sector have vowed to address the challenge of sexual harassment as part of their efforts to promote gender equality and accountability in their work places.
Source: Human Rights Watch
African countries have taken important steps in recent years to protect the right to education of pregnant students and adolescent mothers, Human Rights Watch said today.