Africa Archives – Page 6 of 8

Health Care Oasis Develops for Women in Sudan

By Meghan Sapp ● Uncategorized ● December 11, 2005

In post-war Sudan, reproductive health care is becoming an everyday topic and reality in the capital, which hosts Africa’s only university for women. Women in rural areas and the war-torn south are largely cut off from such advantages.

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Female Africans Take Lead in Prize-Winning Fiction

By Jane Ciabattari ● Arts & Culture ● November 25, 2005

African women are taking over artistic territory once controlled by men and are now telling the continent’s new stories in books and movies. The final article in our eight-part series on emerging female leaders in Africa.

Influence of Kenyan Female Leaders Felt in Somalia

By Fredrick Nzwili ● Employment ● November 17, 2005

As Millie Odhiambo joins a spirited effort to turn back Kenya’s Nov. 21 constitutional referendum, women struggling for greater political representation in Somalia take heart from her example. Seventh in a series on emerging female leaders in Africa.

Women Fight State Brutality in Streets of Zimbabwe

By Nicole Itano ● Employment ● November 10, 2005

Zimbabwe’s government has used state-sponsored brutality to quash dissent, and women on the front lines of protest are paying a heavy personal price. Sixth in a series on emerging female leaders in Africa.

Liberian Becomes Africa’s First Elected Female Prez

By Anna Koblanck ● Employment ● November 5, 2005

Pending a final certification of the vote, Liberia has become the first African nation to elect a female president. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf won her bid for office on Nov. 8. Fifth in a series on emerging female leaders in Africa.

Progressive or Conservative, Women Influence Islam

By Charles Levinson ● Arts & Culture ● October 9, 2005

Three north African women–Latifa Jbabdi, Nadia Yassine and Soad Saleh–are playing an active part in the lively regional debate over women’s role in Islam. Third in a series about emerging female leaders in Africa.

Africa’s Rising Leaders

By WeNews Staff & no-author ● Employment ● September 27, 2005

Women’s eNews’ eight-part series on Emerging Female Leaders of Africa was published throughout the fall of 2005. The research and production of this series was supported by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

African Women Snared by Two Legal Systems

By Nicole Itano ● Arts & Culture ● February 15, 2005

Ten years after the U.N. called for the strengthening of women’s legal rights around the globe, African women’s rights are still often caught in the tangle between traditional and civil laws. The first of a seven-part series on the Beijing Platform.

In Africa, FGM Checks into Hospitals

By Fredrick Nzwili ● Crime & Law ● December 5, 2004

Traditional practitioners of FGM in Africa have begun to back out of the business. That doesn’t mean it is over. Now many female teens are checked into hospitals under the pretext of an illness and a doctor performs the illegal procedure.

Candidates’ Wives Trivialized by Press

By Sheila Gibbons ● Commentary ● July 27, 2004

Candidates’ wives are given very little chance to air their thoughts about the campaign and its underlying issues. Treated as potential and decorative liabilities, coverage of them bespeaks of discomfort with women ascending to power.