Narok County Commissioner George Natembeya has said it will also be established whether the girls underwent female genital mutilation during the December holidays. Those found to ... Read more »

Women who are pregnant less than a year into their employment are not entitled to the mandatory 98 days of maternity leave on full salary, Justice Minister Ziyambi Ziyambi has ... Read more »

Dubbed "the bulldozer", President John Magufuli was initially hailed as a man of action when he came into power - tackling corrupt officials head on and sacking them during visits ... Read more »

The World Bank has withdrawn U.S.$300 million loan which was intended to help Tanzania's education system amid concerns about the nation's policy of expelling pregnant girls from ... Read more »

Kitui County Education Officer Salesa Adano has said an additional number of 72 Kenya Certificate of Secondary Education candidates from the county are pregnant. Read more »

Mbeere North legislator Muriuki Njagagua's is trying to save his constituency from being scrapped as it needs to have an additional 43,965 people by 2019's census. Read more »

This appalling revelation comes amid reports of several pregnant candidates writing their national primary and secondary school examinations. Read more »

Losing a just-born baby is a painful reality worldwide. Statistics are not well kept in may countries, but in widely used lists, 40 of the worst 46 countries for infant mortality ... Read more »

Finance minister Zainab Ahmed has clarified her statement about limiting the amount of children a woman can have, stating that the government will instead encourage women to "wait ... Read more »

Chlorhexidine is an antiseptic gel that has been proven to reduce the incidence of neonatal mortality by about 23% when used in and around the umbilical cord of a newborn, writes ... Read more »