Southern Africa:   'Renewed Energy for Women's Empowerment'

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

Nomcebo Manzini is a busy woman. As the regional director for Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean islands of the UN's recently created Entity for Gender Equality and the… Read more »

Uganda:   Women Struggle to Secure Land Rights

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

Felitus Kures is a widow living in Kapchorwa, northeastern Uganda. Her husband's death left her solely responsible for their children. To meet their needs, she depended on the… Read more »

Southern Africa:   AIDS often Has a Woman's Face

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

Schoolgirl Nomasonto Masango giggles as she lists all the things she and her friends want boyfriends to buy them. "If you have an older boyfriend, he can buy you things and it is… Read more »

Kenya:   Taking on Violence Against Women in Africa

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

Kenya's current law against wife-beating was prompted some years ago by a particularly dramatic incident of a common problem-one that is not unusual across Africa. In December 1998… Read more »

Africa:   Does Financing Benefit Women?

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

Decades after the world officially recognized a human right to gender equality, women remain largely excluded from the upper ranks of government and business, earn less than their… Read more »

Africa:   Three Women Laureates

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

When the Nobel committee announced in October 2011 that year's recipients of its Peace Prize, it raised to three the number of African women to receive the internationally… Read more »

North Africa:   Women on the Barricades

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

Arab women have shown once again that women can often play important roles in revolutionary events. In Egypt and Tunisia they participated in the popular uprisings for democracy -… Read more »

Kenya:   Investing in the Health of Africa's Mothers

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

Not far from Mathare and Korogocho, two of the biggest slums in Nairobi, Kenya's capital, lies the Pumwani Maternity Hospital. Some 27,000 women give birth there each year. Most… Read more »

Zambia:   Gender Violence Hampers AIDS Fight

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

Maria is living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Anti-retroviral medicines (ARVs) are now more widely available and are supposed to make her life better. But her continued… Read more »

Africa:   NEPAD Embraces Women's Rights

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

When African heads of state originally launched their continental development plan, the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD), in 2001, women's organizations banded… Read more »

Africa:   Battling For Equality on All Fronts

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

A decade-and-a-half ago, after a ground-breaking 1995 conference in Beijing that set ambitious targets to transform the lives of women worldwide, African women had reason to expect… Read more »

Africa:   Women: Asserting Their Rights

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

As elsewhere in the world, women in Africa are struggling for their fair share of political power and economic opportunity. In recent decades - thanks in great measure to their own… Read more »

Africa:   Security Reform Key to Protecting Women

Africa Renewal, 15 February 2012

Sexual and other violence against women has been a feature of conflicts across Africa, from Sierra Leone and Liberia to Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Even… Read more »