Africhild, an African research centre on children affairs at Makerere University, has released a report that reveals that hundreds of girls - some as young as ten years old - at ... Read more »
The African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) has partnered with the Institute for Democratic Governance (IDEG), a public policy think tank based in Ghana, to launch the AWDF Futures ... Read more »
The fearless Gambian human rights activist won New African Woman magazine's Woman of the Year Award at the their Award ceremony that took place in Dakar last night. Read more »
Lawyers representing Makerere University lecturer Stella Nyanzi have protested a move by the state to subject her to medical examination to establish her sanity under a 1938 ... Read more »
The Makerere University academic is due to appear in court on the charges of insulting the president Yoweri Museveni and First Lady Janet Museveni. Read more »
Nigeria's Emmanuella Samuel is among the nominees for the New African Women Awards , which sees 67 women vie for awards in 12 categories, including New African Woman of the ... Read more »
Nigeria will be represented at the Winter Olympics for the first time ever, after their women's team qualified for the bobsled event at the 2018 Wi Read more »
Joyce Banda has addressed some members of the United States Congress in Washington DC, suggesting ways the U.S. government could contribute to preventing and mitigating violence ... Read more »
Across Nigeria, health workers are trying to improve maternal mortality. But the figures are alarming: in 2015, there were an estimated 814 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births ... Read more »
Prime Minister Hassan Khayres' new cabinet, which numbers 70 people, has a high percentage of technocrats from the diaspora and the highest number of women in the country's ... Read more »
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