Sub Saharan Africa

The higher a woman rises on the political ladder, the more challenging her domestic relationship becomes. It takes great effort to balance politics and family. Alice Emasu talked to some women ministers at the Eighth triennial meeting of the Commonwealth ministers responsible for gender affairs recently at Speke Resort, Munyonyo.
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The conference hall of the Le Meriden President, Dakar, Senegal venue of the third edition of the West Africa Women Association (WAWA) regional seminar on "Youth's Clandestine Migration in West Africa: The Voice of Women" was filled to capacity.
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Over the past year these reviews have generally shown that Africa has made some progress at all levels. Most countries have developed national gender machineries and policies, but the majority of their strategies have not been implemented. Despite all these promises and first-class commitments, African women are no better off than when they started.
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The challenges confronting women politicians in Africa were given an airing recently during a press conference in South Africa's commercial hub, Johannesburg. Four politicians from Cameroon, Ghana, Kenya and Lesotho felded questions Nov. 28 by reporters from South Africa and other African states, at the Nelson Mandela Foundation. The politicians were in South Africa at the invitation of Inter Press Service (IPS) and the United Nations Development Fund for Women for a three-day workshop with journalists.

Pressure the Sudanese government to resolve the Darfur conflict and monitor United Nations troops for sexual offences, a delegation of Sudanese women told leaders at the African Union (AU) Summit here.
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The South African Women in Dialogue (SAWID) recently met with women of Namibia to discuss ways in which the local women can organise themselves in their diversity and act together for a better future.

African Women's Development Fund (AWDF), Network for Women's Rights in Ghana (NETRIGHT), Abantu for Development, Women's Initiative for Self Empowerment (WISE) and Christian Mothers Association of the Catholic Church have paid a visit to Liberian refugee women at the Buduburam refugee camp.The purpose was to allow the women's rights organisations to express their continued support and solidarity with refugee women.
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Last year's presidential and parliamentary elections marked an important milestone in the history of Sierra Leone but according to the National Electoral Commission, out of a total number of 1321 nominees for the local council elections, women constitute just only 17 percent of that number; of the 65 nominees for mayorships and council chairpersons, only 5 percent is women.
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Last year, as she walked to her home, parliamentary candidate Flora Igoki Terah was attacked and tortured by a gang of five men. Terah's case is one of several case studies highlighted in Amnesty International's 2008 report on the state of the world's human rights, released on May 28.
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