In 2008 alone the Gambia imported 75 Million Dalasis worth of fruits and Vegetables.
A former inmate of Kasapa central prison in Lubumbashi has claimed that rape and sexual abuse of female prisoners is widespread, leading to many women becoming pregnant and giving birth while in jail.
The Catholic Church yesterday denounced domestic violence and vowed to fight it from the village level.
Preliminary data from the 2008/2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS), which shows that the fertility rate has declined from 4.9 births per woman in 2003 to 4.6 births today, seems to show progress in managing its population growth.
GOVERNMENT will revise and update its gender policy to accommodate new issues like climate change and globalisation, which have an impact on women and girls.
THE United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have launched a joint programme to end female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2012.
A countrywide survey of the incidence of rape in Cameroon has returned disturbing statistics: 20 percent of the nearly 38,000 women surveyed reported having been raped; another 14 percent said they had escaped a rape attempt.
While medical and psychological care are being provided to survivors of sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 7,000 women and girls have been raped this year alone, UN and aid workers on the ground say the funding response has been too narrow, leaving key issues inadequately addressed.
The word "Women" in Women Action for Development (WAD) has always labelled this non-governmental organisation an exclusive female entity.
In what looks like a step ahead of her usual terrain, the nation's queen of body enhancement, Modupe Ozolua, has begun what may be termed as an excursion into another market. She recently unveiled the 'Indulge Spot,' an unusual beauty spa in Lekki, which she said was an extension of her foundation.
Muslim and Christian leaders meeting in Mombasa on Thursday failed to break an impasse over the inclusion of kadhi's courts in a new constitution.
One quote sticks out in the debate on schoolgirl sex abuse. It belongs with the chairman of the national association of parents, Mr Musau Ndunda. He reportedly said, at a forum to debate the Teachers Service Commission report released this week, that the 12,000-plus pregnancies could be blamed on school trips, posting of unmarried men to girls' schools and evening classes that run late.
Ten women from the council of women councilors have returned home after attending a three-day conference at Indaba Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa on the theme "Women in Politics".
PFIZER Global Pharmaceuticals has enjoined all Nigerian women to screen themselves periodically for breast cancer so as to be protected from the debilitating effects of the ailment, saying that early detection saves lives.
Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Salamatu Suleiman, has declared that statistics have shown that women are the most affected by poverty across the country.
