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Kenya
Kenyan women milk fortunes from camel

afrol News, 13 January - Safia Kulow, in the arid centre of Kenya, is in firm control of her economy after she and other traditional Anolei women made big business of camel milk. Now they consider which investments to make to increase revenues from their industry.

Rwanda
Rwanda women win by formalising businesses

afrol News / IPS, 11 June - The vast majority of businesses in Rwanda, like elsewhere in Africa, are informal. Government expects that a drive to register an estimated 900,000 informal enterprises will both strengthen these businesses and improve tax revenues.

World
Gender inequality still rife, World Bank report

afrol News, 17 March - Only 20 of 128 economies have equal legal rights for men and women in several important areas for entrepreneurs and workers, according to a new World Bank Group report, Women, Business and the Law 2010. Inequality occurs across all regions and income levels. But many economies have been legislating to reduce these inequalities, the report said.

Gambia
$8 million support for agric production

afrol News, 4 March - The International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) has signed a grant agreement of US$8 million with the Republic of The Gambia to improve the production and marketability of livestock and horticulture products, specifically targeting rural women and youth nationwide.

World
Need for action to empower women - Migiro

afrol News, 2 March - While there have been advances over the past 15 years to advance gender equality and the empowerment of women, there is still a clear need to move from commitment to action in several key areas, the UN Deputy Secretary-General said yesterday at the start of a two-week United Nations meeting on women.

South Africa
SA land reforms "discriminate against women"

afrol News, 27 February - A new study shows that, while South Africa's slow land reform is moving lands from white to black hands, black women are increasingly being discriminated against. Customary laws prevent women from obtaining land rights.

Africa | World
UN ropes in private sector for gender equality

afrol News, 23 February - The United Nations has launched a new effort to expand its partnership with the private sector and philanthropies in the battle for complete gender equality and the empowerment of women, not only as a necessary human right but as economic common sense as well.

Zambia
$20 million loan to support smallholder agribusiness in Zambia

afrol News, 22 January - About 30,000 small-scale farming households, in Zambia, many headed by women, will benefit from a US$20 million loan to the country from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).

Sierra Leone
New centres raise cassava’s outlook in Sierra Leone

afrol News, 17 December - Cassava’s profile as a food security and poverty-reducing crop has received a boost with the commissioning of five new processing centres in Sierra Leone.

Kenya
Kenya urged to adopt marriage bill

afrol News, 15 December - The Kenya Law Review Commission has urged the government to adopt the draft Marriage Bill of 2007, under which couples will not have to pay dowry to get married if the Bill is passed by Parliament into law.

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