Paul Makonda, the governor of Tanzania’s largest city, Dar Es Salaam has just announced plans to create and publish a database of married men. According to him, this would help protect women from “heart breaks”.
View More Tanzanian Governor, Paul Makonda Is Proposing A National Database Of Married Men To Protect Single Women
Nairobi’s Pumwani Maternity Hospital has set up East Africa’s first breast milk bank, the second in Africa, to provide donated milk to babies in need.
View More Kenya’s New Breast Milk Bank Is Helping The Fight Against Infant Mortality
Just in case you all thought misogyny was new and only just starting in the 21st century, we are here to tell you that it has always been in existence. Since time immemorial, men have always degraded women either through their words or actions. Today, it is seen everywhere, from songs to movie dialogues, etc.
View More Shocking Misogynistic Quotes By Some Of The “Greatest” Men Who Ever Lived
In 2014, Serena Williams launched Serena Ventures, a Micro Venture Capital company which aims to provide opportunities to founders.
View More All You Need To Know About Serena Ventures, The Venture Capital Company Owned By Serena Williams
Taiwan becomes the first country in Asia to approve same sex marriage as legislature passes law allowing same-sex marriage. Taiwan’s lawmakers debated three different bills to legalise same-sex unions and the government’s bill, the most progressive of the three, was passed.
View More Taiwan Approves Same-Sex Marriage For The First Time In Asia
Sexual harassment of women and girls inside Indian trains has turned train travel into personal hells for female passengers. The criminal behaviours of male offenders escalate from pornographic comments to sexual touching, groping, public masturbation and ejaculation, violent assault and rape.
View More More Women Are Being Sexually Assaulted On Indian Trains And Nobody Is Doing Anything About ItWomen and children in Somalia’s semi autonomous region of Puntland have taken to the streets to protest and vent their anger following the rape and murder of a 13-year-old girl.
View More Women Are Protesting The Rape and Murder of a 13-year-old Girl in Somalia’s Puntland Region
Thirteen-year-old Monifa and her 10-year-old sister Naima live in London, but were born in South Africa to an English mother and Nigerian father.
View More Two Sisters Born To a Nigerian Father And English Mother Talk About Being Mixed Race In London
A mother of two from a conservative family in southern India, Kanakadurga was told over and over again by her relatives how a good wife should behave.
She should obey her husband’s wishes. She should adapt to his family’s ways. And she should not even contemplate visiting the Sabarimala temple, one of Hinduism’s holiest shrines.
View More She Made History By Entering A Holy Indian Shrine. Her Family Locked Her Out Of The House
Hind Albolooki fled the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the wake of threats from relatives for wanting to separate from an abusive husband.
View More Seeking Protection from Abuse: An Emirati Woman’s Ordeal
Reshma Saujani is the author of the book “Brave, Not Perfect,” out now from Currency, and founder and CEO of Girls Who Code.
View More Girls Who Code CEO: How A Typo Can Be A Radical Act Of Feminism
Melania Trump has decorated the White House for Christmas and not everybody is loving it.
View More Not Everybody Likes Melania Trump’s White House Christmas Decoration
Cardi B and Offset have split again. This time it seems like they may not be coming back together. The couple may also be getting a divorce.
View More Cardi B And Offset Have Split Again, And This Time It Looks Final
Jennifer Hosten was the first black woman to be crowned Miss World in 1970 from the Caribean Island of Grenada.
View More How Jennifer Hosten Became The First Black Woman To Be Crowned Miss World In 1970
All three lawyers, Amr Abdel Salam, Hamido Jameel al-Prince and Wahid al-Kilani, who sued Rania Youssef with public obscenity and incitement to debauchery for wearing a sheer dress to the Cairo Film Festival have withdrawn their charges.
View More Suit Against Egyptian Actress, Rania Youssef, Over Dress Worn To Cairo Film Festival Has Been Dropped