Liberia: Arrival in and Welcome to Liberia 1st Blog Journalism Lesson Learned

First lesson learned: better charge camera battery before departing on a 29 hour voyage! I wish I could show you pictures from the magnificently chaotic and gorgeous scene of much… Read more »

Liberia: President Inaugurates Angie Brooks Center to Promote Women's Advancement

President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf - familiarly known as 'Ellen' or 'Ma Ellen' by many Liberians - broke ground for the Angie Brooks International Center on Women's Empowerment,… Read more »

Africa: International Women's Day in Liberia

Nadine Hack is president and CEO of beCause Global Consulting, a New York-based company aiming to "bring causes to life." Long engaged in international development, women's issues… Read more »

Africa: Festivities, Fashion and Calls To Action As Women Gather in Monrovia

Today, I had the privilege to wither in the searing African sun, shielded somewhat by a thatched roof held up by bamboo polls, as an international delegate to a two-day… Read more »

Africa: Women's Colloquium in Liberia Focuses on Empowerment Across the Globe

Drumming and fanfare amid a display of Liberian art works and speeches by heads state and government characterized the opening of the International Colloquium for Women’s… Read more »

West Africa: Women Leaders Fight For Empowerment

Why should women leaders tolerate being addressed as "His Excellency" or "Sir"? Read more »

Africa: Women's Rights Linked to Good Governance

In an interview marking the publication of the 2008 Ibrahim Index of African Governance, Mary Robinson, a board member of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, discussed with AllAfrica's Katy… Read more »

Zimbabwe: Talks Must Address Violence, Displacement

If talks between Zimbabwe’s government and the opposition are to help Zimbabweans regain the kind of society they deserve, they will sooner or later have to address a number… Read more »

Liberia: Market Women Raise Funds in New York

A group of newly-painted red and yellow buildings lines United Nations Drive in Monrovia, Liberia's capital city. The buildings provide shelter for dozens of market women who spend… Read more »

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 »