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 »

The World Bank has withdrawn U.S.$300 million loan which was intended to help Tanzania's education system amid concerns about the nation's policy of expelling pregnant girls from ...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

Mwanza Salima, one of Malawi's female chiefs promotes girls' education and has used her authority to eliminate harmful cultural practices, including child marriage. One practice ... Read more »

Jeannette Kagame has urged women to use their leadership positions, collective knowledge, skill and experience, to help in innovating solutions, challenge norms and standards that ... Read more »

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has been widely criticized for saying men should not cook, and that he has not stepped into the kitchen since he married 45 years ago. Read more »

Lawyers in the country are urging the government to shut down an online auction for marriage rights to a teenage girl saying the practice is a gross human rights violation. Read more »

Grace Miano, 50, has been charged with the murder of Limbani Mzoma, 27, a Malawian national after his body was found with several stab wounds in an apartment at South Co, Dublin. 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 »

The International Monetary Fund has named former president Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as a member on one of its external advisory groups on surveillance. Read more »

Ethiopia is certainly leading the way in terms of gender parity and inclusivity. The dust has hardly settled since the recent appointment of a new Cabinet that is half female and ... Read more »