A VICTORIA Falls woman from whose house police recovered 481kg of mbanje, almost half a tonne, with a street value of more than $48 million, has appeared in court charged with unlawful possession of dagga. Patricia Ncube (49) of Mkhosana suburb was arrested after police raided the house and recovered 14 by 50kg bags of […]
At least 247,529 Nairobi residents have received the Covid-19 vaccine AstraZeneca since Nairobi Metropolitan Services launched the inoculation exercise in March. More males than females have received the jab. According to NMS Covid-19 data report, 47,741 health workers have been vaccinated, 26,766 security officers, 27,735 teachers, while 145,298 have been classified as others. The AstraZeneca […]
Anna — Maria Holmström, a lady from Finland who has lived in Tanzania for 12 years, is among the people who have made remarkable contribution to ending violence against children and women in the country. Anna-Maria says Tanzania is on the right track in the FGM fight – given that the numbers are going down. […]
Khartoum, Sudan — Sudan’s Ministers Council this week ratified the United Nations’ 1979 Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). However, the majority-male council declined to endorse the notion that women are equal with men at all political and social levels and have equal rights in marriage, divorce and parenting. […]
Maseru — Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Lesotho experienced a 14 per cent decline in family planning coverage in certain districts in 2020, compared to 2019, with one district registering a significant 40 per cent drop. This was shown by an analysis of data from the District Health Management System (DHMS2), undertaken by UNFPA, the […]
Women’s lost income in 2020 totaled the combined wealth of 98 countries The COVID-19 crisis cost women around the world at least $800 billion in lost income in 2020, equivalent to more than the combined GDP of 98 countries, said Oxfam today. Globally, women lost more than 64 million jobs last year –a 5 percent […]
A bill that seeks to create 111 additional special seats for women in the National Assembly has passed second reading in the House of Representatives. The bill, which was read for the first time on Thursday, April 22, 2021, sought to alter the provisions of the 1999 Constitution. It would create 37 additional seats are […]
I T is the Civics subject in school that helped Neema Jacob and her siblings to escape Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) in 2018. She was in standard six by then at one of the Mwanzabased primary schools and aged 12 years. Her parents, especially her father, kept insisting that Neema and her two young sisters […]
Should the bill become law, the Nigerian Senate would have a minimum of 37 women while the House of Representatives would have a minimum of 74 women. A bill to amend the 1999 constitution so as to create new legislative seats reserved for women scaled second reading in the House of Representatives on Tuesday. The […]
Lady Justice Koome Martha Karambu has made history after being nominated Kenya’s first woman Chief Justice by the Judicial Service Commission. Justice Koome is set to become Kenya’s 15th Chief Justice. Kenya’s Judicial Service Commission (JSC) has made history nominating the country’s first woman Chief Justice, Lady Justice Martha Koome Karambu. Court of Appeal Judge […]
African women are still disproportionately affected by poverty, and the coronavirus pandemic is exacerbating gender inequalities, according to new African country gender profiles developed by the African Development Bank. The profiles also found that gender stereotypes are present in most countries and have a negative impact on women’s lives and livelihoods. Some of these impacts […]
In just 48 hours, between April 17 and April 18, four girls in three different counties were defiled. In the cases, the perpetrators are a village man, a father and a police officer. On April 17, a father reportedly swallowed a condom he was using to defile his 11-year-old daughter in Kismayo, Embu County after […]
More than 85 women have told nation.africa their menstrual flow either came way earlier than expected or was yet to show up about three weeks after they received the AstraZeneca jab. This comes after global experts said more research is needed to understand the vaccine’s impact on women’s bodies. The women fear the vaccine could […]
The Government of Japan and the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency, have signed a US$ 1,3 million partnership grant in a project that will help save the lives of pregnant women in Zimbabwe. Zimbabwe is currently experiencing a humanitarian crisis caused by multiple factors, including recurring droughts and […]
Rebecca Ejifoma reports that the International Visitors Leadership Programme Alumni Association recently organised sensitisation campaigns in Ejigbo and Somolu Local Government Areas of Lagos for students, parents, and guardians on achieving a rape, child molestation and domestic violence-free community. Each day, the traditional newspapers and the social media are inaundated with tales of sexual and […]
The Rwanda Cricket Association (RCA) has started preparations of the annual Genocide Memorial tournament, Kwibuka T20 Tournament, slated from June 4-13 in Kigali. This comes after the Ministry of Sports, in a communique issued to the Cricket governing body on Tuesday, April 20, allowed national cricket teams, men and women, to resume training for their […]
Seventeen local women-based groups have united to call on government to lift its controversial ban on by-elections. The ban has been in place ostensibly as part of government’s measures to prevent the spread of Covid-19 during its peak in the country. Some 26 parliamentary and 80 ward seats have been rendered vacant mainly due to […]
In Kenya, residents of a women-only village established in 1990 were finally granted ownership of their tract of land this month. In Tanzania, the government affirmed its commitment to promoting equality in access, ownership and use of land, noting that women’s economic development is pre-requisitely determined by how easily women can access land. These recent […]