SOURCE: AllAfrica

Rwanda has made significant strides in terms of financial inclusion where the last 15 years saw an increased rate from 21 percent to 77 percent, in terms of access to formal financial services, however, the gender gap remains at 7 percent, above the world's average of 5 percent.

SOURCE: Daily Observer

Sara Beysolow Nyanti, one of the two female presidential candidates, is stirring the hearts and minds of Liberians with her "ambitious vision."

SOURCE: Medicins Sans Frontiers

“When I went into labor, I started making my way to the nearest health center, but then I felt one of my two babies coming, so I spread my clothes under a mango tree and gave birth on my own,” says Musa Yahyah, an Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) patient in Sierra Leone. 

SOURCE: UNFPA

BURUNTUMA, Guinea-Bissau – “In all four of my deliveries I had a hemorrhage,” said 39-year-old Djenabu Sano, reflecting on the consequences of female genital mutilation on the births of her children.

SOURCE: Capital News

The government has announced the first national plan to end gender-based violence (GBV), following up on years of concerted efforts to address the issue and provide safety to those affected.

SOURCE: AllAfrica

Minister of Women's Affairs Monica Mutsvangwa has called on the government to continue capacitating women saying gender parity issues are now economic issues.

SOURCE: Premium Times

The Minister noted that dRPC has equally supported the ministry through the launch of the Women's Economic Empowerment policy, released shortly before the end of the former administration.

SOURCE: Spotlight Initiative

MANICA, Mozambique - Sitting on a bench in the courtyard of Madzicuera Secondary School, teachers Flora Senguaio and Eugénio Francisco discuss how they work with their students to eliminate violence at school and to prevent students from dropping out due to child marriage.

SOURCE: Capital Sports

NAIROBI, Kenya, September 10 – World Cross Country bronze medalist Agnes Ngetich admits that setting a world record for the 10km was the last thing on her mind when she lined up at the start line at the Transylvania 10km in Romania on Sunday morning.

Source: New Republic

Nimba County — Latest report emanating from Nimba County says over five thousand (5,000) rural women from Zoe-Gweh have endorsed the reelection bid of President George M. Weah of the Coalition for Democratic Change (CDC).

SOURCE: AllAfrica

Nairobi — Angola's Vice-President, Esperança da Costa, on Wednesday, said it is currently underway in the country the National Plan to Promote Grain Production (Planagrão) will involve more women and young people as part of the food security strategy.

Source: Premium Times

The Kogi State Election Tribunal has declared Natasha Akpoti-Uduaghan of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) as the winner of the 25 February Senatorial election in the Kogi Central Senatorial District.

Source: TAP

(TAP)- A national workshop on the «Digital upskilling of women and girls in Tunisia» is organised on September 4-7 in Tunis by the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) gender equality and women empowerment section in partnership with the Ministry of Women, Family, Childhood and Seniors and the Ministry of Communication Technologies, the Commission sais in a press release.

 

The goal is to increase the country's capacity to run its own training programmes by training trainers in the field of digitalisation, and build a critical mass of women and girls with relevant skills for future jobs, while preparing them to leverage the information economy and increasing digital demand.

The workshop focuses on a range of topics including cybersecurity, digital marketing, online outreach, connecting women to regional and global markets and information streams, digital content creation, how to harness the information economy as well as utilising emerging tools including artificial intelligence and workflow automation, according to the ECA official website.

A later phase of the project planned for 2024 will focus on e-commerce, digital finance, space science and remote sensing to boost women's contribution into agriculture and climate resilience.

This project is part of ECA efforts, across Africa, to increase women's usage and participation in the digital space, despite high numbers of graduates in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. «Our programme helps women to navigate identified security concerns that hinder their utilisation of technologies and introduces them to emerging tools that save their time and boost economic empowerment,» said Keiso Matashane-Marite, ECA Chief of section for Gender Affairs ahead of the training.

For her part, Zuzana Brixiova Schwidrowski, Director of the ECA office for North Africa, stressed the importance of including more women in the Tunisian workforce to increase the country's capacity for inclusive growth, reduce income inequality and mitigate the impact of population aging on the labour force.

According to the National Institution of Statistics of Tunisia, women accounted for 30.1 percent of the workforce in the second quarter of 2022, with 21.1 percent of female workers being unemployed.

African countries experienced an increased reliance on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), digitalization and the use of online platforms to conduct business transactions, learning and development activities post-COVID-19. This shift is currently providing an opportunity for women to step into new economic roles and contribute to a faster economic recovery and resilient growth.

Source: Women's Media Center

One terrible morning, after battling a relentless onslaught of ocean waves for years, Modupe Akerele’s waterfront home finally crumbled in submission to the sea. She was lucky to make it out alive. Once a proud homeowner, Akerele, 47, now resides as a tenant in one of the makeshift shanties that dot the landscape of Elegushi — a community in Nigeria’s southwest city of Lagos that is perched on the coastline of the Atlantic Ocean.

“I am totally exhausted,” a visibly deflated Akerele told the Women’s Media Center. “I am really depressed.”

But Akerele’s story is just one out of many. Buried inside the yawning sea are countless wrecked dreams. For women like Akerele and Nojime Dupe, 56, a resident of Okun Alfa, also in Lagos, who lost her livelihood to the persistent ocean surge, the changing climate has not merely altered the landscape, it has reshaped their lives for the worse.

SOURCE: New Times

First Lady Jeannette Kagame, on Sunday, September 3, attended the official launch of the campaign that advocates for gender equality in healthcare, especially mental health.

SOURCE: AllAfrica

Women and children in Tigray are still subject to sexual violence despite a peace agreement signed in November 2022, according to a new report. Survivors accuse both Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers of rape.

Source: France24

Nairobi (AFP) – Soon after Judy Kengo was sworn into office last year, the Kenyan legislator faced her first public test when a doctored photo of a lookalike kissing another woman surfaced online.

SOURCE: Daily News

CRUELTY and Gender Based Violence (GBV) are still issues of concern in Zanzibar as a total of 168 incidents were reported in July this year compared to 127 cases recorded in June this year.

SOURCE: New Dawn

Former President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf on Tuesday, 29 August 2023, officially launched the Women Situation Room in Liberia, aimed at promoting a peaceful electoral environment and community security here.

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