Equality Now, a women's rights organisation with global and regional offices, as well as other rights groups in Tanzania, jointly filed a case at the African Court in Arusha on ... Read more »

At least 20 U.S.-based Christian right-wing groups have reportedly poured million of dollars into the continent to oppose sex education, contraception, abortion, and LGBT rights, ... Read more »

Some traditional chiefs in Malawi are now backing an amendment of the abortion law to allow for the termination of unwanted pregnancies under certain conditions and are persuading ... Read more »

Qinisile Mabuza, a High Court judge in the deeply conservative kingdom of eSwatini has started a debate about legalising abortion after revealing her intentions to lobby for it to ... Read more »

The government has an obligation to ensure that no woman should die due to pregnancy-related causes, Chairperson of the Parliamentary Committee on Health, Matthews Ngwale has said. ... Read more »

The focus on containing the spread of Covid-19 has hit crucial mother-to-child health care services, including family planning and immunisation, research has shown. Half of the ... Read more »

The hour-long protest consisting of mostly women who chanted and displayed placards with messages such as "Gambian women lives matter, no woman should die in labour, please ... Read more »

After the genocide in 1994, Rwanda now has its act together and reduced deaths among under five-year-old children by 67%. After two civil wars and an Ebola epidemic, nearly 70% of ... Read more »

President Emmerson Mnangagwa has signed a law making it illegal for schools to expel pupils who are pregnant, a measure women's rights campaigners said would help tackle gender ... Read more »

"There is a high burden of reproductive illnesses among Nigerian women but a lot of it hidden because of an unspoken rule of silence.", writes Oludoyinmola ... Read more »