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South Africa’s International Relations and Cooperation Minister Naledi Pandor has warned that none of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals established…
Traditional chiefs in Liberia have declared the banning of female genital mutilation as a harmful practise to women and girls, APA can report from Monrovia on Thursday.
The countdown has begun for the 8th Forbes Africa Woman Leading Women Summit, taking place on 8 March 2023 (International Women’s Day) in Pretoria, South Africa.
When Nuru Awadh was six years old, she lost her father and had to leave the home she always knew to live with her aunt, where she did most of the cooking and cleaning.
President George Manneh Weah, has recognized what he called the monumentally significant role Liberian women have played in the realization of peace and stability during and after years of socio-economic and political turbulence.
The average rural woman in Rwanda spends seven hours per day doing unpaid care work, while her urban counterpart spends six hours and nine minutes as opposed to men who only spent two hours per day, a survey finds.
President Cyril Ramaphosa has called for the establishment of “men’s dialogues” as a platform to assist South Africa address the scourge of gender-based violence (GBV) which has been described as the country’s “second pandemic”.
South African women and children continue to face the scourge of gender-based violence and femicide — and economic empowerment is the only viable way to reduce this vice among them, Minister in the Presidency for Women, Youth and Persons with Disabilities, Nkoana-Mashabane, has said.
The rate at which South African women were being abused, violated and killed between July and September 2022 remains “worrying and unacceptable,” Police Minister Bheki Cele has told reporters.
Leader of South Africa’s second opposition party, the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), on Sunday criticised his own party in the Eastern Cape province for its failure to elect a single woman among its top ranks.