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South African women and children are the ones who suffer the most when political parties engage in "civil wars", Gauteng Premier Nomv

North Malaita constituency has a new Member of Parliament (MP) who was unofficially declared last night.

She is Vika Lusibaea, the wife of former MP Jimmy Lusibaea.

A record number of women were sworn in as legislators as Senegal's new parliament was inaugurated on Monday.

Sixty-four women now have seats in this West African country's 150-member National Assembly, thanks to a law on gender parity.

The Ministry of Women is currently having consultations with government ministries in coordinating information gathering for the preparation of Fiji's 2^nd Follow up State CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women)

The president of the ruling MPLA party José Eduardo dos Santos Tuesday in Luanda considered the Angolan women an example of love and perseverance and assured greater support for them.

When Bothaina Kamel began gathering signatures for her campaign to be not only Egypt’s first democratically elected president, but also its first female leader in centuries, just about everyone knew the campaign wouldn’t succeed.

A reshuffle of provincial-level leadership nationwide, which has seen more women leaders elected, has been concluded with Guo Jinlong elected as the Secretary of the Beijing Municipal Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) at the first plenary meeting of the 11th CPC Beijing Munici