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» 13.05.2008 - Djibouti female genital cutting linked to poverty
» 08.05.2008 - DRC projects attract $60m
» 07.05.2008 - Somalia's celebrated woman presenter escapes murder
» 29.04.2008 - ICC unseals DRC warrant
» 28.04.2008 - Kenya army tortures civilians
» 28.04.2008 - ICC cries for Sudan arrests
» 25.04.2008 - Ghanaian wins Caribbean & Commonwealth pageantry
» 25.04.2008 - Striking "Liberian refugees" await repatriation
» 23.04.2008 - Liberia still faces challenges
» 22.04.2008 - Forum seeks to protect human trafficked victims
» 17.04.2008 - UN Congo mission lauded
» 16.04.2008 - Fire kills 19 Ugandan girls
» 14.04.2008 - Madonna's case set for ruling
» 09.04.2008 - 'Rebels beheaded my mother'
» 07.04.2008 - Niger sued over slavery laws
» 04.04.2008 - Editors condemn death threats
» 03.04.2008 - UN details Liberia violations
» 01.04.2008 - West African migrants bailed
» 01.04.2008 - SA probes racism in schools
» 20.03.2008 - 'Ghana mistreats refugees'
» 20.03.2008 - Nigerian cinema hits US
» 14.03.2008 - Makeba meets rape survivors
» 13.03.2008 - Genocide priest jailed for life
» 03.03.2008 - 'Eliminate harmful cultural practices'
» 29.02.2008 - Racist victims feel betrayed
» 26.02.2008 - AU to diffuse Kenya deadlock
» 08.02.2008 - DRC: UN hails warlord's arrest
» 05.02.2008 - Renewed fight against FGM
» 01.02.2008 - Publisher escapes death trap
» 30.01.2008 - Zoë workers sent to prison
» 29.01.2008 - US leader tours Africa
» 28.01.2008 - Ghana shuns labour standard
» 24.01.2008 - Special Court hails Taylor trial
» 24.01.2008 - SA urged to introduce PMTCT
» 23.01.2008 - Prayer meeting ends in clash
» 21.01.2008 - ICC investigates CAR crimes
» 18.01.2008 - ODM set for economic boycott
» 15.01.2008 - Nigerian traffickers nabbed
» 10.01.2008 - Teens sentence deferred again
» 04.01.2008 - UNMIL sex abuse declines
» 02.01.2008 - Somalia: MSF medics freed
» 27.12.2007 - Chad kidnappers convicted
» 20.12.2007 - Marriage scourge exposed
» 19.12.2007 - Africa trafficking study soon
» 04.12.2007 - TB still Kenya's fast killer
» 26.11.2007 - Mozambique: Respecting sex work
» 22.11.2007 - Malaria cripples Ghana’s health budget
» 21.11.2007 - UK teens guilty of Ghana drug smuggling
» 20.11.2007 - Unknown illness hits Angola
» 19.11.2007 - Congo sexual abuse probed
» 19.11.2007 - Somalis launch public gay site
» 14.11.2007 - Students protest Chad abduction
» 14.11.2007 - Gambia's health minister fired
» 05.11.2007 - Zambian First Lady urges women to demand safe sex
» 02.11.2007 - Chad abduction embarases France
» 02.11.2007 - Amnesty seeks justice for Sierra Leone's conflict survivors
» 25.10.2007 - Kenya leader shuns violence
» 25.10.2007 - Sudan benefits gender education
» 24.10.2007 - Rwanda tops gender equity
» 23.10.2007 - Mozambican parliament ignores domestic violence
» 19.10.2007 - Cry for Ugandan gays
» 18.10.2007 - Big boost for Lesotho nutrition
» 17.10.2007 - Nets aid Africa's malaria fight
» 16.10.2007 - Africa's ARV treatment fails
» 10.10.2007 - Joburg Pride magnetises thousands
» 08.10.2007 - Nigeria court bans satirical play
» 05.09.2007 - Mystery disease ravages DRC
» 03.09.2007 - Row over South African minister’s health turns sour
» 30.08.2007 - MALI: Child marriage a neglected problem
» 30.08.2007 - Fact-finding humanitarian mission begins in Ogaden
» 29.08.2007 - CAR crisis displaces 291,000
» 28.08.2007 - Rwandan editor faces "dubious" rape charges
» 24.08.2007 - Illegal Liberians’ deportation contested
» 23.08.2007 - Angola: Luanda's residents drink suspect water
» 10.08.2007 - $20.6 million grant for Senegal’s anti-malaria campaign
» 09.08.2007 - South African lesbians targeted for murder
» 08.08.2007 - Southern Africa: Gender activists urge leaders to bite bullet
» 03.08.2007 - Kenya minister freed on bail
» 03.08.2007 - Nigeria: Gunmen freed speaker’s mother
» 20.07.2007 - Women to be "speedily dealt with" at Ghana courts
» 12.07.2007 - Lesotho churches bolster HIV/AIDS fight
» 28.06.2007 - "Justice denied for Sudanese rape victims"
» 26.06.2007 - Somaliland now centre for illegal female cutting
» 26.06.2007 - First Mauritian govt budget to target women
» 25.06.2007 - US First Lady tours Africa
» 19.06.2007 - Gender violence outlawed in Sierra Leone
» 13.06.2007 - Lesotho: fertile ground for human traffickers
» 11.06.2007 - Safe abortions may soon be legal in Mozambique
» 01.06.2007 - Tanzanian women getting ready for World Cup 2010
» 31.05.2007 - Harsh penalties for human trafficking Cameroon couple
» 07.05.2007 - Gambian circumcisors publicly abandon knives
» 04.05.2007 - In South Africa, women still are underdogs in the media
» 03.05.2007 - Battle over sexual offences bill in Mauritius
» 23.04.2007 - SMS saves Burkinabe girl from forced marriage
» 19.04.2007 - Soldiers ‘execute, rape civilians in Congo’
» 11.04.2007 - South Africa sets pace for regional gender equality
» 05.04.2007 - Mozambique celebrates its women heroes
» 05.04.2007 - Uganda legalises extra-marital sex
» 05.04.2007 - Eritrea criminalises FGM
» 04.04.2007 - Gender quotas win the day in Lesotho
» 04.04.2007 - Gambian leader threatens judiciary
» 04.04.2007 - Malagasy vote on President’s powers
» 04.04.2007 - Senegal marks 47th independence
» 02.04.2007 - More aid for Lesotho's numerous orphans
» 28.03.2007 - Senegal guarantees gender balance in legislative polls
» 28.03.2007 - Zambia's female boxing star challenges stereotypes
» 21.03.2007 - Death by stoning hangs over Sudanese women
» 16.03.2007 - "Alarming" HIV rise in young South African women
» 15.03.2007 - Disappointment over women's share of Lesotho MPs
» 12.03.2007 - 42 Gambian sex workers jailed
» 09.03.2007 - Kenya's tourist coast attracts youths, sex workers
» 08.03.2007 - South Africa launches action plan against gender violence
» 26.02.2007 - FGM, circumcision "likely to spread HIV"
» 26.02.2007 - Zimbabwe women still far from liberation
» 22.02.2007 - Risky business of informal cross-border trade
» 13.02.2007 - Slow progress stopping FGM in Mali
» 13.02.2007 - Gambia child rape gives life sentence
» 23.01.2007 - All-women UN peace force arrives in Liberia
» 22.01.2007 - 15 million diabetics in Africa by 2025
» 22.01.2007 - Activists celebrate Tanzanian woman's UN appointment
» 12.01.2007 - SAA battles sex scandal
» 04.01.2007 - 55% of Swazi women are overweight
» 19.12.2006 - Activists scold Gambia for harassing prostitutes
» 19.12.2006 - Child sex booms with tourism in Kenya - UN
» 15.12.2006 - SA ruling party disowns whip over sex scandal
» 12.12.2006 - South Africa remains lesbian-bashing society
» 01.12.2006 - Gambia pounces on prostitutes
» 29.11.2006 - Many to blame for war crimes against Congo's women
» 28.11.2006 - Nigeria women raped by police and army
» 22.11.2006 - Survivors of gender violence lead Jo'burg march
» 22.11.2006 - Botswana army rolls out carpet for women
» 17.11.2006 - Veil controversy grips Egypt
» 16.11.2006 - Egyptian minors sold for prostitution under guise of marriage
» 14.11.2006 - South Africa legalises same-sex weddings
» 10.11.2006 - Mauritian women sick of rape, incest, violence
» 07.11.2006 - Gambian women cannot negotiate safe sex
» 07.11.2006 - Zimbabwe women preach love to demand change
» 02.11.2006 - Ethiopian women reject genital cutting (FGM)
» 24.10.2006 - Women still missing from Zambia politics
» 24.10.2006 - Will Madagascar produce woman President?
» 19.10.2006 - Zim women face tough career or mothering decision
» 19.10.2006 - Senegalese AIDS community cries in silence
» 19.10.2006 - "Global Fund not for 1st ladies"
» 18.10.2006 - Male-ruled Lesotho hosts many women role models
» 11.10.2006 - Tanzania secures US$ 59 million to battle maternal mortality
» 02.10.2006 - 91% of young Cape Verdean males have high-risk sex
» 15.09.2006 - Guinea-Bissau to ban female genital mutilation
» 06.09.2006 - Ghana MPs want tougher penalties for female genital cutting
» 07.06.2006 - Lesotho intensifies efforts to help rape survivors
» 02.06.2006 - "Female genital mutilation increases babies' mortality"
» 01.06.2006 - Tanzanian church still opposes condoms, sex education
» 04.05.2006 - Women preachers appointed in Morocco
» 10.04.2006 - Unions to increase Congolese women's part-take in politics
» 07.04.2006 - Zimbabwean women now have world's shortest lifespan
» 24.03.2006 - Namibia considers legalising prostitution
» 08.03.2006 - "Violence against women in Zimbabwe increases"
» 08.02.2006 - Calls for female inheritance to Lesotho's throne
» 29.11.2005 - Malawi reviews marriage, divorce laws
» 23.11.2005 - Ms Sirleaf confirmed Liberia's President
» 09.11.2005 - Islam united to stop female genital mutilation
» 09.11.2005 - Namibia urged to decriminalise sex workers
» 31.10.2005 - Growing prostitution observed under Zambia food crisis
» 01.08.2005 - Malawi rural men: "Having AIDS is macho"
» 22.06.2005 - Big step towards woman President in South Africa
» 17.06.2005 - Egypt police protected men attacking women journalists
» 16.06.2005 - Aka Pygmies "best dads in the world"
» 31.05.2005 - Half of Nigeria's women experience domestic violence
» 03.05.2005 - Malawi gender activists told not to fight men
» 28.04.2005 - Men annoyed by Lesotho's "women elections"
» 13.04.2005 - "Women are a lucrative commodity in Equatorial Guinea," NGO
» 22.03.2005 - Burundi's women still live in fear of violence
» 18.03.2005 - Church of Nigeria "not to ordinate women"
» 17.03.2005 - Female genital mutilation a vote-winner in Sierra Leone
» 08.03.2005 - Algeria union promotes women's rights
» 04.03.2005 - Rwanda, Mozambique have highest women MP percentage
» 01.03.2005 - Nigerian women get free fistula operation
» 09.02.2005 - No sex for Congo peacekeepers, Kofi Annan
» 26.01.2005 - Togo's working women want more influence
» 24.01.2005 - Illegal abortions with alarming consequences in Malawi
» 19.01.2005 - Somali MP in Netherlands defies death threats
» 11.01.2005 - Sexist stereotypes cause "rural exodus" in Algeria
» 17.12.2004 - Somaliland teenage "spy" convicted in "unfair trial"
» 17.12.2004 - UN suspends soldiers in Burundi over sex abuse
» 14.12.2004 - Still impunity for rape in Liberia
» 10.12.2004 - Wangari Maathai receives Nobel Peace Prize
» 02.12.2004 - Somaliland women prepare strategy for election
» 01.12.2004 - Women's vulnerability focused on Botswana AIDS Day
» 22.11.2004 - Princess born in Lesotho; still no heir
» 15.11.2004 - Female mutilation Benin's main human rights problem
» 09.11.2004 - Lutherans urge African women to speak about sex
» 21.10.2004 - South Africans disapprove of homosexuals, abortion
» 08.10.2004 - Kenya's Wangari Maathai awarded 2004 Nobel Peace Prize
» 04.10.2004 - Preparations for "Miss Francophonie" in Burkina Faso
» 28.09.2004 - Burundi princess, top model seeks presidency
» 03.09.2004 - Little progress in fighting slavery, FGM in Mauritania
» 02.09.2004 - Rwanda women ex-combatants seek AU peacekeeping role
» 13.08.2004 - SMS for better women rights in Africa
» 30.06.2004 - Labour standards violated in Benin, Burkina Faso, Mali
» 23.06.2004 - Niger government addresses gender gap
» 15.06.2004 - FGM in Mali connected to pre-Islamic traditions
» 14.06.2004 - "Funky, punchy condoms" for South Africa
» 19.05.2004 - The Kenyan girlchild: "An endangered species"
» 10.05.2004 - Women break into African politics
» 28.04.2004 - South Africa's women from housework to unemployment queue
» 06.04.2004 - Rwandan women surviving genocide now face AIDS
» 09.03.2004 - Women's development highlighted in Djibouti
» 08.03.2004 - African AIDS widows left without inheritance
» 03.03.2004 - Liberian sex crimes to be investigated
» 24.02.2004 - Rape becoming widespread in Burundi
» 17.02.2004 - First female Prime Minister in Mozambique
» 11.02.2004 - Nigerian govt wants debate on female genital mutilation
» 10.02.2004 - Nigeria adopts anti-Female Genital Mutilation day
» 22.01.2004 - Somali women more engaged in decision-making
» 21.01.2004 - Liberian fighters "still rape and loot"
» 14.01.2004 - Nigerian girl to be flogged for being raped
» 13.01.2004 - Women demand gender equality in Batswana media
» 01.12.2003 - Now 40% of Botswana's pregnant women have HIV
» 01.12.2003 - Gender violence fuels African AIDS crisis
» 28.11.2003 - Lutheran women fight violence in Namibia
» 24.11.2003 - Women's liberation practiced in Tanzanian camp
» 17.11.2003 - Rwandan women legislators start revolution from above
» 06.11.2003 - Little progress for girls' school attendance
» 25.09.2003 - Amina Lawal's death sentence quashed at last
» 01.08.2003 - São Toméan PM steps down after coup
» 30.07.2003 - Muslim-Christian coexistence in Nigeria studied
» 21.07.2003 - African women granted more rights
» 11.07.2003 - First ever female presidency candidate in Mauritania
» 03.07.2003 - Education project in Guinea-Bissau funded
» 02.07.2003 - UK forces accused of 650 rapes in Kenya
» 25.06.2003 - Hundred young girls abducted in Uganda
» 23.06.2003 - More African girls to go to school
» 20.06.2003 - Rwandan women key to reconstruction
» 07.06.2003 - Villagers join campaigns against female genital mutilation
» 20.05.2003 - AIDS: "Women live with exhaustion, grief and depression"
» 30.04.2003 - Zambian govt responds to sexual abuse report
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