Noting that Zambia has the highest rate of gender-based violence in southern Africa, Global Health Corps Fellow Angel Chelwa says an attack that stripped a woman naked in the ... Read more »
The women's group has launched the campaign "because Kenya was peaceful until it invaded Somalia." Read more »
Last year's appointment of a special representative to the president of the Democratic Republic of Congo on the issues of child soldiers and rape during conflict is bringing ... Read more »
Ninteen students at St Mary's Kibabi Boys High School in Bungoma have been sent home over alleged homosexuality. Read more »
Mobile courts have been utilized in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to prosecute cases of sexual violence perpetrated by military personnel and civilians. Over the past month, ... Read more »
Asisat Oshoala is the first player to win the new award from the BBC World Service, voted for by football fans around the world. Read more »
The move is set to encourage more young women to enter the pageant. Read more »
Opposition Party National Assembly member Priscilla Misihairabwi-Mushonga has complained that women members of parliament are verbally abused in the parliament by their male ... Read more »
Grace Mugabe has called for the dismissal of Prosecutor-General Johannes Tomana after he said 12-year-old girls were able to consent to sex. Read more »
The women and girls voluntarily embraced the de-radicalisation programme, after which they will be able to return to their communities, according to the office of the National ... Read more »
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