Police Arrests Suspects Over Hotel Serial Killings in Rivers State

Leadership

The Rivers State Police Command has arrested two persons suspected to be involved in the murder of young women in Rivers State in the past two months. Read more »

Ramaphosa's 5-Point Emergency Plan to Tackle Gender-Based Violence

News24Wire

President Cyril Ramaphosa on Wednesday announced a five-point emergency plan to put a halt to gender-based violence during an extraordinary joint sitting of Parliament. Read more »

Eswatini's Landmark Ruling On Marital Power [analysis]

Democracy Works

Democracy Works Foundation celebrates a landmark ruling made by the High Court of eSwatini which enables women to be granted the full right to be a legal person; and are enabled to… Read more »

Study Highlights the Importance of Men in Childcare and Nutrition [analysis]

The Conversation Africa

In Malawi, as in many other patriarchal societies, women have historically been responsible for housework, food and childcare. Women's household responsibilities have often left… Read more »

Emergency Plan to Protect Women and Children

SAnews.gov.za

President Cyril Ramaphosa has announced an emergency plan to deal with the violence against women and children in the country. Read more »

Women MPs Want All Women to Get HPV Vaccine

Nation

Criticism of the government's move to vaccinate girls aged 10 against the virus that causes cervical cancer continue to grow even as the Health ministry draws closer to rolling out… Read more »

U.S. Consulate Launches Academy for Women Entrepreneurs in Nigeria

This Day

United States Consulate General in Lagos has launched an Academy for Women Entrepreneurs (AWE) in Nigeria. Read more »

Cyclones Force Mozambique Girls to Early Marriage

CAJ News

HUMANITARIAN organisations are battling to raise funds to fight impending malnutrition and the rising rate of child marriages in Mozambique. Read more »

Fear Grips Port Harcourt Residents Over Alleged Targeting of Women By Serial Killers

Premium Times

There is apprehension in Rivers State, South-South Nigeria, over the alleged existence of serial killers, said to be targeting women in Port Harcourt, the state capital. Read more »

Ramaphosa Promises Harsher Sentences, Review of Inadequately Investigated Gender-Based Violence Cases

News24Wire

President Cyril Ramaphosa says sexual offence cases which have been closed or not properly investigated in the past, would be reviewed, and that harsher sentences would now be… Read more »

Govt to Allocate U.S.$74 Million to Fight Gender-Based Violence

News24Wire

The government will reallocate R1.1bn in additional funding this financial year to dispel the "dark and heavy shadow" of gender-based violence that has been cast across the… Read more »

Ramaphosa's Fight Against Gender-Based Violence in Times of Govt Debilitation [analysis]

Daily Maverick

President Cyril Ramaphosa's 'emergency action plan' to end gender-based violence had little new or imaginative to rid South Africa of this blight. Wednesday's joint sitting was a… Read more »

Give More Women Top Jobs, Kalonzo Tells Unions

Nation

Women are still poorly represented in the top ranks of labour movements in Kenya, Wiper party leader Kalonzo Musyoka told a conference in Nairobi on Tuesday. Read more »

President Cyril Ramaphosa - Joint Sitting of Parliament On Gender-Based Violence [press release]

Govt of SA

Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa at the Joint Sitting of Parliament on the crisis of violence in South Africa, National Assembly, Cape Town Read more »

Female Youths Protest Killing of Women in Rivers Hotels

This Day

Female youths yesterday marched through the streets of Port Harcourt to the State Police Command in protest against the serial killings of women in hotels in Rivers State for… Read more »