October 15, 2013
Africa: Survey Reveals Africa's Top Promoters of Gender Equality
Rwanda is Africa's top-performing advocate of gender equality, followed by the Seychelles, Mozambique, South Africa and Botswana. Read more »
September 04, 2013
Africa: Africa Loses As Women Farmers Are Marginalised
The “enormous potential” of small-scale farming to reduce poverty in Africa is not being realised mainly because rural women are neither recognised nor supported enough… Read more »
July 12, 2013
Ghana: Inspiring Rural Communities Through Technology
In Ghana most girls are expected to go to a decent school, find a well-paying job, then seek out a husband - not many women pursue careers in male-dominated fields like computer… Read more »
Kenya: Increasing Access to Family Planning in Informal Settlements
Kenya's infant mortality shows the fastest rate of decline among the 20 countries in sub-Sahara Africa, according to the World Bank. Among the possible reasons for this decline are… Read more »
Tanzania: Improving Access to Health Care for Women and Children
Women in Tanzania face challenges accessing adequate and proper health care services, partly as a result of inadequate funding for healthcare facilities and limited access to… Read more »
July 01, 2013
Africa: Democracy, Transparency Are Not 'Western Exports' - Obama
An excerpt from President Obama's speech at the University of Cape Town: Read more »
June 14, 2013
Africa: An Africa Fit for Women and Girls
I believe in an Africa that is fit for women and girls; that protects their well-being and creates a supportive environment for them to realise their aspirations. As I look at the… Read more »
June 08, 2013
Africa: Hope for Ending 'Unrelenting' Cycle of Malnutrition, Poverty
Gently laying three-month-old Benjamin on a board to measure his length, Elizabeth Mumo, 28, is grateful for the weekend clinics in a makeshift health facility, run by a retired… Read more »
June 06, 2013
Africa: 'Magnificent Strides' Against Malnutrition
The governments of the UK and Brazil, and the Children's Investment Fund Foundation (CIFF), will co-host a high-level international meeting, Nutrition for Growth: Beating Hunger… Read more »
Africa: Lancet Highlights Importance of Maternal, Child Nutrition
A new Lancet series on maternal and child nutrition examines the problems associated with undernutrition and successful interventions. A similar report released by Lancet in 2008… Read more »
May 31, 2013
Africa: Bold Goals, Measurement Needed for Progress Against Poverty
With the expiration of the initiative still more than a year away, there is planning underway to move beyond the United Nations Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) aimed at… Read more »
May 27, 2013
Africa: 'It's the Turn of the African Woman'
Toyin Ojora-Saraki, founder and president of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa, a maternal, newborn and child health and empowerment organization, has dedicated more than 20 years to… Read more »
May 24, 2013
Africa: Investing in Africa's Women
Invest and empower other women on the continent. This is the key message that came from former South African first lady and head of the Graca Machel Foundation, Graca Machel. Her… Read more »
May 14, 2013
Africa: Mastectomy Disclosure by Angelina Jolie May Help Reduce Stigma in Africa
In disclosing in the New York Times on Tuesday that she underwent a double mastectomy, actress and humanitarian Angelina Jolie also called attention to the many women in Africa and… Read more »
April 30, 2013
Rwanda: UN Security Council Presidency an 'Eye-opener' - Foreign Minister
The government of Rwanda is completing a busy month at the helm of the United Nations Security Council, a task that rotates among members - both the five nations with permanent… Read more »
February 21, 2013
Africa: Closing the Gap - Meet Aims to End Extreme Poverty
When 17-year-old Sona Traore represented the Child Protection Network of Liberia at a civil society event organized in conjunction with a three-day United Nations meeting in this… Read more »
March 02, 2013
Africa: Kangaroo Care Boosts the Odds for Preterm Infants
In one world, Tabitha Wanjiku is shimmying under cars, tweaking transmissions and rewiring brake lights on her way to certification as a mechanic. In another, the soft-spoken,… Read more »
January 29, 2013
Africa: Supporting Women in Agriculture for a 'Prosperous' Africa
The African Union (AU) is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, but instead of looking back, the current chair, Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma, seems intent on casting her vision… Read more »
January 22, 2013
Africa: Celebrating the AU's First Female Leader
When the chair of the African Union (AU), Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma walked into the 21st bi-annual Gender is my Agenda Campaign (GIMAC) meeting on Tuesday she was given a reception, I… Read more »
January 18, 2013
Nigeria: Ondo State Governor Determined to Turn Tide on Maternal Health
One in five Nigerian children will die before reaching his or her fifth birthday, according to Save the Children. Their mothers are also suffering - the country accounted for 14… Read more »
December 16, 2012
Congo-Kinshasa: Bring Women into DRC Peace Talks - Diop
It's a country the size of all of western Europe, with enormous mineral riches that enable the artifacts of modern life, from mobile phones and tablets to circuit boards and solar… Read more »
October 25, 2012
Africa: Scaling Up Impact for Women
Melanne Verveer likes numbers. As the first U.S. ambassador-at-large for Global Women's Issues, Verveer is a veritable encyclopedia of studies, facts and figures related to… Read more »
November 14, 2012
Africa: Using Family Planning as a 'Liberating Force'
Nearly 20 years ago, 179 countries came together and made a commitment to provide sexual and reproductive health care, including family planning, to their people. The… Read more »
October 08, 2012
Africa: The Women Who Grow Africa's Food Need a Voice
When Dr. Ruth Khasaya Oniang'o, a professor of food science and nutrition, shared advice from her mother at the September 2012 African Green Revolution Forum (AGRF), it really… Read more »
October 04, 2012
South Africa: Church Elects Woman Bishop
A South African woman has been elected as the second female Anglican bishop in Africa. Read more »