Source: SWC Bulletin
He may be set to climb Mount Kilimanjaro, but Gordon Bailey has his sights set a bit higher than the 19,341-foot peak.
Source: All Africa
This is the fourth in a series of articles analysing regional progress on gender equality and women's empowerment.
Source: AllAfrica
The African National Congress sends its condolences to the family of Kayde Williams on their daughter's tragic and untimely passing.
Source: Swazi Observer
On many International Women's Day celebrations, one is likely to hear a raft of statistics that both celebrate and lament the status of women.
While some indicators of gender equality have improved, others continue to shock and disappoint.
Source: This Day Live
The 24th Session of the Summit of the African Union (AU) with the theme 'Women's Empowerment and Development towards Africa's Agenda 2063' was held recently in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, with focus on women empowerment and overall development of the continent.
Source: Jamaica Observer
SO, we are once again in Black History Month. Much discussion has been generated about the marginalised male in the African diaspora, in general, and Jamaica in particular.
Source: Huffington Post
Due to weak gender policies, lack of credible evaluation and measurement, implementation and monitoring, vaguely imported programs and the willingness to act, African governments are letting women and girls down.
Source: SpyGhana
Stakeholders, led by the Minister of Gender, Children and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, have validated the new National Gender Policy (NGP); to help address gender equity and empowerment of women for national development.
Source: All Africa
Battles between coal mining companies, the municipalities that host them and affected local residents are now drawing blood with last week's rubber-bullet shootings and arrests of activists (including key women organisers) fighting coal and demanding a decent life in Emahlahleni (formerly Witbank).
Source: Newstime Africa
African women can and will be agents of change for the continent's transformation at all levels.
Source: News24
Zimbabwe president and soon-to-be-elected African Union chairperson, Robert Mugabe, said the representation of women in European parliaments isn't good enough to warrant them advising Africans about the issue.
Source: South Africa.info
Promising young girl coders from Khayelitsha met the Twitter vice-president for engineering, Nandini Ramani, to discuss how to pitch a business idea and how to use social media to grow their success.
Source: The Globe and Mail
Four months after Boko Haram shocked the world by kidnapping more than 200 students, a small group of schoolgirls who narrowly escaped from the Islamist extremists were facing a new dilemma: Should they go back to school?
Source: Global Post
The wives of African presidents on Saturday vowed to rejuvenate the fight against maternal health, gender violence and discrimination to ensure women are critical players in the continent's development.
Source: Mail & Guardian Africa
The 24th African Union summit opened Friday. This year, the theme of the summit is: "Year of Women Empowerment and Development towards Africa's Agenda 2063". Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, the Chairperson of the African Union, underlined the importance of the theme, stating that "we must also do more this year to increase the representation of women in government, in the judiciary and other public and private institutions and their participation at the tables in peace negotiations."
Source: All Africa
"By taking part in the 24th African Union (AU) Summit, January 30-31 in Addis Ababa, Tunisia makes a comeback on the African scene," official Spokesman for the Presidency of the Republic Moez Sinaoui said, Thursday.
Source: All Africa
For far too long, women and girls in Africa have faced discrimination and inequalities in the workforce which have not only hurt them, but their families, communities and their countries as a whole.
Source: Daily News Egypt
Violence holds a huge cost for our world. Globally, the cost runs to more than 11% of the world's GDP. But this is not mostly about the highly visible violence that dominates TV and news.
Source: All Africa
The 24th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of the African Union Heads of State and Government opens today in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa under the theme: "Year of women empowerment and development towards Africa's Agenda 2063."
Source: The Cairo Post
"Sisi's participation in the African Summit in Addis Ababa is essential, especially after a long absence made them suspect our African loyalty," political science professor at Cairo University Ayman Shabana told The Cairo Post Thursday.