At the culmination of World Breastfeeding Week, two women - both mothers - who are fierce advocates for saving the lives of women and children say that without better care and more ... Read more »

Selected petitions and written correspondence between Igbo women and British officials between 1892 and 1960 shed fresh light on how women navigated male-dominated colonial ... Read more »

The renewed calls come after a 90-year-old woman was lynched after being accused of being a witch. She didn't survive, but the women who do are sent or run away to settlements ... Read more »

Lawmakers have approved a draft law that would give survivors of sexual assault and harassment the automatic right to anonymity, under pressure to do more to encourage women to ... Read more »

Former Defense Minister Rose Christiane Ossouka Raponda has been promoted to prime minister, making her the first woman to hold the role in Gabon's history. The president of Gabon, ... Read more »

Kaizer Chiefs footballer Willard Katsande has issued a strong challenge to all his colleagues in the PSL to break their silence on gender-based violence. Women in South Africa are ... Read more »

Health crises such as the Ebola and now the COVID-19 crisis undermine strategies to end sexual and gender-based violence and other harmful practices and poses a serious threat to ... Read more »

An anti-abortion movement is calling for the rejection of calls to legalise abortion but Health Minister Kalumbi Shangula says he can push to for it if he gets enough support from ... Read more »

Despite the "gender-responsive" legal framework in the country, women encounter multiple social, legal, and judicial barriers in claiming their share of property. Although the law ... Read more »

A woman has accused celebrity D'Banj of raping her in December 2018. She demanded a public apology from the artist, who stayed silent on the accusations for a few days. D'Banj then ... Read more »