Call for applications – 2014 MILEAD Fellowship for young African women leaders
Moremi Initiative for Women’s Leadership in Africa, announces its annual call for applications for the 2014 Moremi Leadership Empowerment and Development (MILEAD) Fellows Program. The MILEAD Fellows Program is a long-term leadership development program designed to identify, develop and promote emerging young African Women leaders to attain and thrive in […]
Gendering Agriculture
Women spearhead efforts to feed the continent By: Nirit Ben-Ari Do land, seeds and crops have a gender? Perhaps they do in sub-Saharan Africa, where women produce up to 80% of foodstuffs for household consumption and sale in local markets, according to a report by the World Bank and the […]
Journey to Namibia 2014 begins
The journey to the 9th African Women’s Championship (AWC) Namibia 2014 begins this weekend with the first leg matches of the first round. Sixteen (16) teams will be involved in the first hurdle in the race for places for the ninth edition of the showpiece continental women’s football tournament. Only […]
Women on the Rise in African Politics
Women are breaking into the “boys club” of the African presidency.Though women leaders remain the exception in African politics, activists say things are looking up.`Currently Africa has three female presidents, tackling everything from security to corruption Read more :http://www.voanews.com/content/women-on-the-rise-in-african-politics/1847360.html
6th Africa Conference on Sexual Health and Rights
3-7 FEBRUARY 2014 | YAOUNDE, CAMEROON The conference is part of a long-term process of building and fostering regional dialogue on sexual health and rights that leads to concrete action that will enhance stakeholders’ ability to influence policy and programming in favour of a sexuality healthy continent including that of […]
Meet Catherine Samba Panza CAR’s new interim President
The former mayor of Bangui is the first woman to lead the country. Her duty will be to get that country back on its feet after a year of near mayhem . Read more : http://world.time.com/2014/01/23/meet-catherine-samba-panza-central-african-republics-new-interim-president/