Source: Reuters
GADO-BADZERE, Cameroon, Nov 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Alone, hungry and traumatised having watched her parents die in war-torn Central African Republic, 14-year-old Koulsoumi believed the worst was behind her when she was taken in by a family in Cameroon after fleeing across the border last year.
Source: The Guardian
How can women in Nigeria become economically empowered and contribute to the development of the country? Our panel of experts share their thoughts.
Source: The Monitor
The ban on comprehensive sex education in Uganda's schools needs challenging. That Uganda has a ministry of Ethics and Integrity that is entirely engrossed with sexual morality but does not support sexual health education in school is shameful.
Source: Daily Trust
The Benue State Family Planning Advocacy Working Group (BSFPAWG) has said that identified 63 percent unsafe abortions can be prevented with increase in family planning use.
Source: The Citizen
Next week Tanzania is hosting two global meetings that will focus on women, their survival, well-being, and their access to life saving maternal and reproductive health services.
Source: The Standard
Most Zimbabwean girls, especially those in marginalised communities, have big dreams, but they can't build their future because they have always received a wooden spoon from their parents when it comes to education.
Source: The Guardian
Entrepreneurs from around the world gather for a three-day conference looking at how the continent can get creative with the internet.
SOURCE: The Guardian
On Wednesday, hundreds gathered in front of the Johannesburg high court to mark thedeathof Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo, the feminist Aids activist who accused Jacob Zuma of rape. The tribute was organised by theOne in Nine campaign, a group of feminist activists formed a decade earlier to provide solidarity as Kuzwayo testified against Zuma – a family friend and prominent member of the ruling African National Congress – inside the selfsame court.
Source: Women & Girls Hub News Deeply
South African law requires marriages be conducted by a registered official. But many of the country’s Muslims get married in exclusively religious ceremonies, leaving married Muslim women with little legal protection, say activists.
Source: Think Geoenergy
WING Africa, the African "chapter" of the international group of Women in Geothermal (WING) was officially launched during a reception held on 1 November 2016 at the United Nations Conference Center in Addis Ababa/ Ethiopia.
Source: allAfrica
In 2014, the father of teenager Scholastica Arutiang refused to pay for her secondary school education and instead encouraged her to get married.
Source: allAfrica
Tanzania is committed to ensure strong political commitment to family planning at all levels, increase national financing for family planning commodities as well as to strengthen contraceptive commodity security.
Source: allAfrica
Kinshasa, DRC — Over the course of the past three years, the DRC has reduced incidents of sexual violence by half, from 15,000 cases in 2013 to 7,500 cases in 2015, according to a UN Security Council Preliminary Report on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence.
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Every morning at 3 a.m., Esther Katuma, a 34-year-old mother of five, leaves her house in search of water. She hopes to return before her children come home from school for lunch and in time to scare away the baboons that have been devouring the bananas and pawpaws on her farm.
Already blind, Catherine Mwayonga was written off by doctors as having six months to live after being diagnosed with HIV. Fifteen years later, she now helps other disabled HIV-positive Kenyans to demand better treatment and adapt to life with the disease.
Source: allAfrica
As the healthcare segment of a digital industrial company, GE Healthcare is expected to do what any business must do: drive growth and a strong balance sheet.
Source: Thomson Reuters
A Kenyan police officer has been jailed for 20 years for raping a 13-year-old girl, despite saying they are now married, in a case campaigners heralded as a breakthrough in justice in a country where such convictions are rare.
Source: IOL
Johannesburg - When you look at the lists of the most powerful business leaders in Africa, you rarely see women and definitely not young women.
Source: National Mirror
Despite increasing global campaigns to drastically reduce maternal deaths or even eliminate them, Nigeria still loses 111 of its women to pregnancy-related complications daily, a group working on 4th Family Planning Conference in Nigeria, said yesterday.
Source: The Guardian
The number of women in the world’s poorest countries using modern forms of contraception has jumped by more than 30 million in the past four years, according to a report that found the most significant progress had been made in sub-Saharan Africa.