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Working to Materialise African Women’s Agency 

Reproductive health, empowerment and the labour market are the main areas of focus

America has pledged $53 million for developing countries. (Photo by: Universal Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Climate change hits African women

The promise of a new climate economy requires tangible actions across key economic systems, some of which include targeted investments into sustainable water infrastructure

Former president of Malawi, Dr Joyce Banda, argued that the success of economic integration and development will be attained only when women are “fully integrated into national and regional economies as equal actors and beneficiaries”.

25 Years after Beijing: Changing the script about women’s leadership

Women in Africa should not be viewed as having ‘special negotiating skills’. Instead, we should motivate for more women in leadership positions because of their equality as…

Spatial planning in South Africa needs to take women’s safety into account. (Photo: Reuters/Sergio Moraes)

Women on the streets of smart cities

Apps like My Safetipin and Safe Pace are making the public sphere safer

Ntombi Mekgwe, the founder of Vita Basadi and speaker of the Gauteng provincial legislature, with some of the award winners  – women who have used their determination and skills to empower others. (Photos: Kgomotso Neto)

The GPL hosts the 5th Vita Basadi Awards

Women who quietly serve their communities and the legislature, backed by the women’s caucus, are acknowledged at the annual Vita Basadi awards

It is time for people respond to change gender-based violence, and end the suffering. (Photo: Delwyn Verasamy)

Survivors of gender-based violence fight to be heard

Gender-based violence is escalating as the social crisis deepens. Some activists want a special council for survivors

Associate professor Dr Mzikazi Nduna works with her students. She argues that to reduce new HIV infections in young women, we need to do more than keeping them at school

If not now, later: Women’s vulnerability to HIV risk

Keeping girls at school could reduce their vulnerability to infection. But women’s lack of empowerment will affect this intervention’s success

PINK: Women creating work by being aware of their needs!

Women in the Environment

Winner: PINK

Thuto Thipe believes you should leave things better than how you found them. (Graphic: John McCann)

Thuto Thipe

Academic, Yale University

Find your inner strength is ?Nomonde Gongxeka-Seopa’s advice for young women. (Graphic: John McCann)

Nomonde Gongxeka-Seopa

Councillor, Icasa

A man’s world: At a women’s panel discussion during the Africa CEO Forum in Switzerland last month

Women in Africa claim seat at table

The game is still rigged against female business leaders, so they’re rewriting the rules themselves.

Magazines gloss over real diversity

The magazines we love do not love us back – they do not contain a diverse representation of black womanhood

Confronting adversity: Members of the Congolese Women’s Association who have been widowed by conflict. Without the ­active participation of women

Enough talk about women, it’s time to act

The AU’s long-term goal of peace and prosperity will be a pipe dream unless it tackles gender issues.

Morocco grapples with women’s rights after raped bride’s suicide

Protests have erupted in Morocco over the case of teenager Amina Filali who killed herself after a court ordered her to marry her alleged rapist.

A glass ceiling that is still opaque

A glass ceiling that is still opaque

Strengthening women’s participation in higher education is more than just a ‘women’s issue’.

These are no wounded souls

It is disappointing and hurts that African women are the subject of disparaging rage and hostility from fellow women, who, unwittingly, inflict pain.