Liberia: Market Women Help Revive Economy

To the untutored eye of a visitor from elsewhere, the markets in Liberia and many other African countries seem chaotic, noisy, smelly, dirty and often dangerous. Traders and… Read more »

Kenya: I Believe in Institutions, Now and for Future Generations - Jennifer Riria

Dr. Jennifer Riria left a high-status career as a Kenyan university professor and an international civil servant with United Nations organizations to revive a floundering women's… Read more »

Liberia: New Study Spotlights Sexual Violence

Preliminary findings of a new study by the International Rescue Committee (IRC) and Columbia University may have given relief workers the evidence they say they need to focus… Read more »

Uganda: Judicial System Fails Women, Says Amnesty

Human rights group Amnesty International today accused the Ugandan judicial system of failing to act against the widespread rape and sexual abuse of women in the north of the… Read more »

Mali: Filmmaker Abbdoulaye Ascofaré's Tale of an African Mother's Struggle

FARAW! Mother of the Dunes, is a sentimental film about the many challenges and roles a woman has as a mother and wife. The main character Zamiatou (Aminta Ousmane) is a fictional… Read more »

Sierra Leone: Women Aim for the Presidency by 2012

Representatives of the Fifty Fifty Group, a women's activism organization in Sierra Leone, have been visiting Washington, DC, to receive an award for their work to increase… Read more »

West Africa: U.S. Group Honors Women Leaders

Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and the Fifty Fifty Group, an organization supporting women's political participation in Sierra Leone, have received awards from the… Read more »

Africa: Kenya, Ghana Are Top Business Reformers

Kenya and Ghana are among the world's top 10 business reformers, and Mauritius is Africa's easiest place to do business, according to a new report from the World Bank… Read more »

Congo-Kinshasa: End Sexual Violence in Eastern Region

In this statement, former UN Special Envoy for AIDS in Africa and current Co-Director of AIDS-Free World Stephen Lewis calls for a new UN initiative to end sexual violence in the… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Protestors Demand Affordable Food

Hundreds of members of a Zimbabwe civic organisation held a peaceful demonstration over food supplies and prices in Sakubva, in the city of Mutare today. Read more »

Ethiopia: A Walk To Beautiful

Of the many tragedies that occur daily in Ethiopia, perhaps the most foreign to those living in industrialized nations is the medical condition, obstetric fistula, which afflicts… Read more »

Africa: Ethiopian, Zimbabwean Women Journalists Honored

The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) has honoured an Ethiopian publisher for her courage and a Zimbabwean reporter for her achievements in journalism over a period… Read more »

Eswatini: Report Links Discrimination to HIV

Gender-based discrimination in Botswana and Swaziland is integrally linked to the high rates of HIV infection among women in those countries, a study by Physicians for Human Rights… Read more »

Africa: 1,500 to Gather for International Women and Aids Summit

Urgent action to cut rising HIV infection rates among women and girls will be planned at what is billed as the world's first international summit on women and Aids. Read more »

West Africa: Koundandi: A Film About Love and Sacrifice

The image of African women in the media has gone through several positive transformations over the years. African filmmakers are increasingly showing the diversity of African women… Read more »

Africa: Global Experts Encourage Women as Peacekeepers

Experts in peace-building have called on African women to become involved with peacekeeping from the start of negotiations to end conflicts, and not to allow themselves to be… Read more »

Africa: Businesses Urged to Help Employees With HIV/Aids

Panelists at an Africa-wide conference on the critical role of women and girls on the continent have urged businesses to support them in addressing the HIV/Aids crisis. Read more »

Africa: Help Children by Empowering Women

One in every 16 women living in sub-Saharan Africa will die as a result of pregnancy or childbirth, as against one in 4,000 in industrialized countries. Read more »

Africa: Tommy Boys, Lesbian Men and Ancestral Wives: Female Sex Practices in Africa

This book is a compilation of articles on the experiences of lesbian women in Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Namibia, South Africa, and Swaziland. The stories were born out of the… Read more »

Sudan: Review of 'All About Darfur'

All About Darfur: Is Sudan in a culture of war? Read more »

Africa: 'The Most Effective Vaccine against Child Death in Africa is a Glass of Clean Water'

Kevin Watkins, the lead author of the UN Human Development Report and head of the office that produces it, visited AllAfrica recently to discuss this year's document. Released on… Read more »

Liberia: A Conversation with Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

At a breakfast fundraiser in Washington DC for the Liberian Education Trust, President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf discussed the nation's prospects for development and peace with… Read more »

Africa: Violence Against Women Inherently Linked to HIV, Advocate Says

In August, the Global Aids Alliance released a report, Zero Tolerance, that outlines the impact of violence against women and girls on the fight against HIV/Aids. AllAfrica's… Read more »

South Africa: Women's Empowerment May Take Two

This week, UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan released two long-awaited reports on human rights issues affecting billions of people worldwide: the Study on Violence Against Women and… Read more »

Africa: 'New News' from Africa - Looking Beyond Death, Disease, Disaster and Despair

Charlayne Hunter-Gault, one of the best-known and most award-winning journalists in the United States, has focused her recent career on covering Africa. After nearly two decades as… Read more »