Women

Women and girls in the Central African Republic, including an estimated 73,000 pregnant women, face significant challenges in accessing reproductive health care and gender-based violence (GBV) services, as insecurity heightens their…

Families, vulnerable groups heaved a sigh of relieves as the Minister of Women Affairs, Hon Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, distributed food items to various women groups in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) as part of President Tinubu's…

The ECOWAS Commission has launched the second phase of the Regional Sub-Saharan Africa Women's Empowerment Demographic Dividend Plus Project (SWEDD+), to accelerate progress in  empowering women and girls  Across Sub-Saharan Africa The 365…

Ahead of the United Nations COP29 summit in Azerbaijan this month, women in Senegal took to the streets of Dakar to demand climate justice. Attended by some 50 climate activists, they are seeking protection of the country’s resources and…

As the war in Sudan continues women and girls have been learning new skills at a combat training camp set up in a former school yard. The 10 months of clashes between the Sudanese military, led by General Abdel Fattah Burhan, and the…

In 13-hectare field in Fapaha, 20 kilometre from Korhogo in northern Côte d'Ivoire, dozens of women work on their vegetable plantations. Here, onions, lettuce, cabbage and carrots are grown, it's a similar story in Nakaha, 28 km away,…

The wife of Anambra State Governor, Mrs Nonye Soludo, has reiterated her position that women in the state will continue to play frontline role in the developmental agenda of the current administration in the state. The first lady…

Vaccine Network for Disease Control (VNDC), a non-governmental organisation, has reiterated its committment to working closely with the Special Adviser to the President on Health, Dr Salma Ibrahim Anas, to ensure improved health and…

In Somalia's booming capital, construction engineer Faduma Mohamed Ali has her work cut out for her, supervising male workers twice her age, while defying stereotypes in this conservative Muslim country in the Horn of Africa. She has had…

The United Nations Women and Nigeria's Ministry of Women Affairs have launched the Quarterly Zonal Coordination Mechanism Meeting for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women for states in Nigeria's North-Central region. The meeting…