Africa is the second largest continent in the world after Asia with 54 countries. It is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean to ...

In East Africa a slave trade was well established ... Many people were domestic slaves, working in rich households. Women were taken as sex slaves. Arab traders began to settle among the Africans ...

Underscoring the importance of rights, equality and empowerment for ALL women and girls comes at a time when the risk of ...

Women across Eastern Europe, the Middle East, and Africa (EEMEA) are demonstrating a growing appetite for entrepreneurship, with 78% considering starting or running their own business, according ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. The second East Africa Agroecology Conference (EAAC), convening in Nairobi this week from ...

But Mr. Muli, like other East African officials, also owns a staffing company that sends women to Saudi Arabia. One of them, Margaret Mutheu Mueni, said that her Saudi boss had seized her passport ...

COMMON WISDOM #6: Women provide the bulk of labor input in African agriculture, regularly quoted to be 60 to 80%. Two messages emerge. First, the findings question prevailing assertions that ...

East African countries are being hit hard by ongoing conflicts ... on gender-based violence issues -- including by distributing solar lamps to protect women and girls at night. Oxfam and our partners ...

Almost half of women in Africa will be obese or overweight by 2030, according to a new study, an "alarming rise" that has been "compared with the HIV epidemic", said The Guardian. Unlike in most ...

Zimbabwean women face dire consequences as US aid cuts lead to a shortage of contraceptives, risking unsafe pregnancies and ...