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Uganda police save underage Sudanese from forced marriage, mother on the run
Police in Uganda have stopped a forced marriage between a 17 year old girl and a 56 year old southern Sudanese soldier from taking...
London: Beauty pageant, scam, disenchantment
The beauty pageant was supposed to be the most memorable day of their lives. Yet, for the bevy of beauties gathered here, their dream...
Sex, Rock and High Heels
"...Nobody holds a candle to me
In my red high heels..."
Kellie Pickler, “Red High Heels”
I’ve always been a sucker for high-heeled shoes. Long,...
Uganda first lady urges men to embrace family planning
The biggest ever international family planning conference yesterday night opened in Uganda's capital Kampala with over 2000 delagates from all over the world participating....
Michelle Obama on Mr. Right
The U.S. first lady is a real wealth of wisdom and a mine of good counsel. In the latest issue of Glamour magazine, Michelle...
Black Women prone to deadlier breast cancer than White counterparts
African women and women of African descent are likely to die younger from breast cancer than any other ethnic group, investigations have revealed. Researchers...
Battered men in Morocco shy away from shame
Battered men often choose to hide their agony so as not to be rejected by society. In Morocco, an association and a retired social...
Sudan: Lubna al-Hussein prefers prison to a $200 fine
Arrested on the 3rd of July along with twelve other women in a restaurant in Khartoum for wearing a pair of trousers, Lubna Ahmed...
African women making real headway in Politics
Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became the first elected black female head of state in 2005 when Liberia’s voters elected her president with a...
Sudan: Lubna’s trouser war, a call for Islamic law review?
The highly publicized trial of Ahmed Lubna al-Hussein was rescheduled Tuesday to take place next month. Lubna , a journalist by profession, was sentenced...
Tanzania: First Women’s Bank begins operations
The Tanzania Women's Bank (TWB) was inaugurated on July 28 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. This pioneering initiative, the first of its kind in...
Africa: Is China the new African Savior?
After many years of enduring the rigors, manipulation and exploitation of Western colonial powers, Africans are hoping that patronage, peace and progress may come...
Financing Africa’s greatest resource: Women
Decades after the world officially recognized equality between women and men as a human right, women remain largely excluded from the upper ranks of...
Virgin by all means possible: The search for a new hymen
"Virginity!" is the cherished motto of adherents of the "cult of the hymen." It is primarily based on the bleeding of the sacred...
Maggi Cube: A suppository and enema for a “bubble butt”?
Claiming that their men prefer plumper buttocks, some women in the Democratic Republic of Congo have turned to the use of Maggi cube (a...
Tribute to Susan Tsvangirai
Mrs Susan Tsvangirai was always at her husband's side in times of persecution in Zimbabwe. My encounters with her were but brief - at...
Disturbing UNICEF report: 4m children died in 28 days
The State of the World’s Children, is the title of a just released UNICEF (The United Nations Children's Fund) annual report on maternal and...
Egypt : “Old Maids” protest on Facebook
Yomna Moktar could not take anymore of the stigmatisation and marginalisation from her fellow Egyptians towards single women. The young journalist’s decision to react...
Congolese women stage protest against fighters
Women have gathered in number in Eastern Congo to protest against the fighting that has made life in the region a living hell. The...
Uphill task for Africans in 2008 Under-17 Women’s World Cup
Africa's representatives at the ongoing 2008 Under-17 Women's World Cup in New Zealand - Ghana and Nigeria - are not looking good to advance...
Egypt sends first man sent to jail for sexual assault but …
Noha Rushdi has won a monumental court case that saw an Egyptian court send a man to prison for the first time for sexual...
Marriage or Legal paedophilia : Morocco battles with under age marriages
More than 33,560 marriages of female Moroccan minors, representing 86.79% of the requests submitted in 2007, were approved by judges, a women's rights group...
Ugandan researchers awarded for agricultural contribution
The New African Women in Agricultural Research and Development Programme has awarded eight Ugandan female researchers with the outstanding agricultural award for their contribution...
Dying women in Nigeria become a big concern
According to the United Nations report, Nigeria has not done enough in the last four years to better the health indices of women.
The UN...
When rape victims are accused
Violence against women is poorly legislated against and rarely prosecuted the world over. North Africa is no exception. Although Tunisia provides for the death...
Kunyaza, the secret to female orgasm
Experts confirm that 70% of women do not achieve orgasm from vaginal penetration alone. To help them achieve sexual satisfaction, Nsekuye Bizimana has decided...
Moroccan women : A step beyond women from other Arab countries
The Moroccan government has decided to set October 10 aside as a national day for Moroccan women, an action that has been widely approved...
Child trafficking, rape, abuse and a helpless government …
Some 15,00 people live here in the most basic conditions imaginable
KANO, 7 July 2008 (IRIN) - The trafficking of girls from villages to cities...
Fatwa Divorce generating massive uproar from women
A fatwa issued by a Mufti in Tunisia, allowing women to break matrimonial ties a third time a husband mentions divorce from...
Women hiding their HIV status for fear of being battered
Maria is living with HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. Antiretroviral medicines (ARVs) are now more widely available and are supposed to make her...