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POLITICS-NIGERIA : In the Shadows of Men: Women’s Political Marginalisation By Mustapha Muhammad KANO - Ten years after Nigeria returned to civil rule women still play second fiddle in the male-dominated politics of Africa’s most populous nation, women politicians and activists say. MORE >>
DEVELOPMENT-CAMEROON: Are Women the Magic Bullet for "Electoral Apathy"? By Mohamadou Houmfa YAOUNDE - A support network for women's political participation, is challenging head-on what it calls "electoral apathy", after noting a growing trend in electoral abstention. MORE >>
KENYA: Proposed Constitutional Amendment Sets Back Women’s Rights By Susan Anyangu-Amu NAIROBI - Lillian Mutuku, a 34-year-old mother of three, describes her home in Katine area, in Kenya’s Eastern province Tala, as a harsh place to live. The soil is poor, she says, the sun beats down mercilessly and vegetation is sparse. MORE >>
SOUTH AFRICA: Gender Loses Out in Basic Education Crisis By Ann Hellman CAPE TOWN - With the 15th-year review of the 1995 Beijing World Conference on Women taking place at the ongoing Commission on the Status of Women in New York, South African teachers and education experts say they fear that a special focus on the advancement of girls is getting lost amidst the growing levels of poverty in the country. MORE >>
RIGHTS: Africa's Success Stories in Gender Empowerment By Thalif Deen* - IPS/TerraViva UNITED NATIONS - Whenever gender empowerment is a vibrant topic of discussion internationally, some of the countries in Europe, Asia and Latin America are invariably singled out for their success stories in politics, education, health care or civil liberties even as Africa is mostly left out of political reckoning - and wrongly so. MORE >>
KENYA: New Bill to Improve State Witness Protection, If Passed By Mary Kiio NAIROBI - Kenyans affected by the violence that erupted after the country’s disputed presidential elections in 2007 may soon be able to speak out without fear. A new bill will offer better protection to state witnesses. MORE >>
EDUCATION-TANZANIA: Pregnant Teens Forced Out of School By Arnaud Bébien DAR-ES-SALAAM - Pregnancy is the leading cause of dropouts for school girls in Tanzania. And a national law forbidding young mothers to return to school after giving birth did not make it any easier for them to continue their education. MORE >>
TANZANIA: Weather Changes Turn Farming into Gamble with Nature By Denis Gathanju DAR-ES-SALAAM - Changes in weather patterns have turned agriculture into a gamble with nature for Tanzanian farmers. Prolonged droughts and floods have made the lives of small-scale farmers, who don’t have access to irrigation, extremely difficult. MORE >>
ENVIRONMENT-UGANDA: Landslides - Experts Warn Worst is Yet to Come By Joshua Kyalimpa KAMPALA - Fourteen-year-old Isaac Wadyegere of Bundesi village in Bududa district woke up to a rainy and chilly Monday morning and went to school as usual. But Mar. 1 was not a usual day in eastern Uganda. MORE >>
NAMIBIA: Female Hip-Hop Artists Challenge Stereotypes By Servaas van den Bosch WINDHOEK - African hip-hop prides itself on a more positive portrayal of women, but traditional cultural attitudes towards women still dominate the industry, say Namibian female rappers. MORE >>
MALAWI: Patrilineal Inheritance Prevents Women’s Access to Land By Claire Ngozo LILONGWE - Mercy Gondwe, 51, from Rumphi in northern Malawi, was married for 34 years. When her husband died in 2008, she assumed she would inherit the land they had been cultivating together since they got married. But this was not the case. MORE >>
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SADC - The official website for the Southern African Development Community
African Economic Research Consortium
Third World Network
African Forum and Network on Debt and Development (AFRODAD)
SARPN is a facility for promoting debate on poverty in Southern Africa
The Development Gateway is an interactive portal for information on sustainable development and poverty reduction, providing a space where communities can share their experiences on development.
