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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 >>
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 >>
RIGHTS-SWAZILAND: Property Rights At Last for Women By Mantoe Phakathi MBABANE - A recent court ruling has finally given Swazi women the right to own and administer property in their own names. MORE >>
RIGHTS-EGYPT: Families Uprooted as Sphinxes Revive By Cam McGrath LUXOR - Hajj Khodari lifts a defiant fist at the demolition machinery now just meters away from his front door. MORE >>
EUROPE: Fight Female Mutilation Harder Activists Urge EU By Pavol Stracansky VIENNA - With hundreds of thousands of girls and women believed to be at risk of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Europe, rights groups have mounted a campaign to get EU leaders to stop what they see as a barbaric and dangerous procedure. MORE >>
SOUTH SUDAN: Changing of the Guard By Skye Wheeler TORIT, South Sudan - An old rite is long overdue in Paul Yugusak Tombe’s home village, in Central Equatoria State, south Sudan. MORE >>
SOUTH SUDAN: A More Gender Representative Leadership By Miriam Gathigah JUBA - As the general elections scheduled for April 2010 draw nearer in Africa’s largest country ravaged by a long drawn war, the scramble for political positions is rife as women struggle to make their presence felt. MORE >>
ZAMBIA: Let our Chiefs Govern By Lewis Mwanangombe LUSAKA - The Litunga of Barotseland, King of the Lozi, has no judicial or legislative authority. No supervisory control over government projects, and worst of all he cannot stand for elected office. Yet successive Zambian presidents have deferred to him. MORE >>
SOUTH SUDAN: Women Perpetuate Culture of Submission By Miriam Gathigah TORIT, southern Sudan - All day Rosalinda Duany sells vegetables from her stall at the local market, earning a living to feed her family while her husband spends his days idling with his friends. But when his days become too boring and he demands his conjugal rights, Duany wordlessly stops work just to oblige him. MORE >>
SIERRA LEONE: Woman Breaking Traditional Walls in Chieftaincy Elections By Mohamed Fofanah FREETOWN - A war is raging in the eastern part of the country, once the centre stage for battles during the 10-year civil war and the place where "blood diamonds" were once mined. But this time the war is not for diamonds, but about whether a woman has the right to stand for paramount chief in the local chieftaincy election. MORE >>
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