The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Angola, has announced that at least 24,000 women living in rural areas of the 21 municipalities of 12 provinces benefited from empowerment projects.
President Muhammadu Buhari has recently announced during his broadcast to the nation to mark his one year in office, that he has set aside N1.6 billion for women empowerment across.
South Sudanese women’s rights activists are calling on the leaders of the Transitional Government of National Unity to include more women in the various branches of government that are to.
The government played irreplaceable role in supporting women to exercise their political, economic and social rights as guaranteed by the Constitution. Prime Minister Hailemariam Dessalegn said the government is committed.
Rwanda’s Minister for Gender and Family Promotion, Dr Diane Gashumba, has recently called for more funding to boost entrepreneurship activities among women.
As part of efforts to close the gender data gap as well as fast track the progress of women and girls in the world, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
Tanzania’s parliament has recently closed ranks in calling for an overhaul of the marriage act to raise the minimum age of marriage to girls so as to prevent child marriages.
Malawi’s Former President Joyce Banda A former President of Malawi, Joyce Banda, has recently said that African women in politics do not need leadership trainings from the West rather they.
Mauritius Nation Assembly has recently passed the National Women’s Council Bill which will pave the way for a more modern and appropriate legislative framework to promote women empowerment and gender.
Board of Executive Directors of the World Bank have recently approved a sum of US$127 million to improve the quality of health services in Cameroon, with a focus on reproductive,.
