Some of Africa’s leading women footballers, including former winners and emerging talents Marie Ngah Manga, Michaely Bihina and Monique Ngock, alongside established stars Temwa Chawinga, Thembi Kgatlana and Barbra Banda, feature prominently among the nominees for several women’s categories of the CAF Awards 2026 that were announced on Tuesday. The CAF Awards 2026 are to…
Discriminatory social norms, unequal power relations and growing gender-based violence continue to undermine women’s participation in political leadership across Africa, despite progress in representation and the adoption of laws promoting gender equality, United Nations and European Union officials have warned. Speaking at the opening of a two-day Inter-Regional Dialogue on Advancing the Transformation of Gender…
Vice President Jane Mayemu Ansah has called for reforms to electoral systems, political party structures and campaign financing to give women a fair chance to participate in political leadership across Africa. Speaking virtually at the inaugural High-Level Annual Conference on Gender and Elections in Africa in Johannesburg on Oct. 29, 2026, Ansah said democracy should…
An idea may launch a business, but endurance is written in every season that follows. The women nominated for the 2026 Innovator Trust Women in Tech Awards have carried their businesses through those seasons. Their results in revenue, growth and job creation give this year’s theme, Tech Believers, a practical meaning. This year’s nominees send…
This year’s World Food Day theme, “Innovate today. Nourish tomorrow,” speaks to one of Africa’s biggest opportunities: connecting the people who produce the continent’s food with access to the technologies, finance, climate-resilient infrastructure and markets that allow them to produce more and earn more. Sometimes that looks like a woman farmer getting access to climate-smart…
Belief is easy to print on a banner. In tech, it has to survive a funding meeting, an acquisition system and the moment a customer clicks “pay”. Under this year’s theme, Tech Believers, the Innovator Trust has selected thought leaders to examine the questions behind that test at the Women in Tech Awards (WIT) 2026,…
Decades before Siri or Alexa or ChatGPT, there was a real person, almost always a woman, at the center of the information world. She was so vital, most long-distance communication could not happen without her. She was the telephone switch operator, and at one time she was part of the single largest occupation for white,…
Kenyan among 100 women honoured by FAO for driving change across agri-food systems Zipporah Nyaguthii Gitonga. PHOTO/FAO By SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT [email protected] Kenya’s Zipporah Nyaguthii Gitonga was among 100 Women Heroes in Agrifood Systems and Rural Development, honoured by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today. Zipporah is a Kenyan agribusiness leader…
Geneva — Disruption to the Strait of Hormuz is driving up food prices and putting further strain on the livelihoods and household resources of millions of women and girls, according to a new UN Women analysis. An additional 11.7 million women and girls could face food insecurity by the end of 2026, as the escalation…
The FlyDubai co-pilot whose alleged violent attempt to crash a flight to Israel last week and kill everyone onboard has a history of writing and sharing misogynistic remarks on social media using the rhetoric of the so-called manosphere, CBS News has found. Many posts written and shared by Hamam al Hamami on an X account…
