Long queues in the rain, daily four-hour trips in a public taxi, the constant threat of road accidents, and nearly having to ...

Africa has increased the number of women in parliament but still looks set to miss a global goal of gender parity in politics ...

An advocacy and exchange meeting on the fight against gender-based violence (GBV) was held on Wednesday, November 5, in Blitta-Gare, about 270 km north of Lomé, the Togolese capital. Organised by the ...

Moscow, Idaho (CNN) — Sometimes, a book can have a life-changing impact. For Payton McGriff, that turned out to be true. McGriff was a sophomore at the University of Idaho when she read Half the Sky, ...

The manufacturing of African print textiles has shifted to China in the 21st century. While they are widely consumed in African countries – and symbolic of the continent – the rise of “made in China” ...

Journalist Sira Sow sits behind a green microphone in a recording booth in a hot rural village in eastern Senegal. She speaks in the local language of Wolof on La Laghem FM community radio, her words ...

Payton McGriff made a remarkable decision her senior year at the University of Idaho. It was her final semester in the spring of 2017, and she turned down a job offer she had been dreaming of in a ...

An Accra Circuit Court has remanded a Nigerian food vendor into police custody for allegedly trafficking two women from Togo to Ghana and forcing them into prostitution. Gift Chinyere Aminu has been ...

The 12 nations that will participate in the 2026 Women's Africa Cup of Nations, a qualifier for the FIFA Women's World Cup, are now known.

Over 1,000 women entrepreneurs across eight African countries, including Uganda, are set to benefit from the Women Entrepreneurship for Africa (IYBA-WE4A) programme -- a grant initiative designed to ...

Payton McGriff founded Style Her Empowered, or SHE for short, after graduating from the University of Idaho in 2017. SHE provides free school uniforms for girls, along with tuition, menstrual products ...