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In 2008 alone the Gambia imported 75 Million Dalasis worth of fruits and Vegetables. (AllAfrica)

The Catholic Church yesterday denounced domestic violence and vowed to fight it from the village level. (AllAfrica)

The word "Women" in Women Action for Development (WAD) has always labelled this non-governmental organisation an exclusive female entity. (AllAfrica)

In what looks like a step ahead of her usual terrain, the nation's queen of body enhancement, Modupe Ozolua, has begun what may be termed as an excursion into another market. She recently unveiled the 'Indulge Spot,' an unusual beauty spa in Lekki, which she said was an extension of her foundation. (AllAfrica)

A former inmate of Kasapa central prison in Lubumbashi has claimed that rape and sexual abuse of female prisoners is widespread, leading to many women becoming pregnant and giving birth while in jail. (AllAfrica)

Preliminary data from the 2008/2009 Kenya Demographic and Health Survey (KDHS), which shows that the fertility rate has declined from 4.9 births per woman in 2003 to 4.6 births today, seems to show progress in managing its population growth. (AllAfrica)

GOVERNMENT will revise and update its gender policy to accommodate new issues like climate change and globalisation, which have an impact on women and girls. (AllAfrica)

THE United Nations Fund for Population Activities (UNFPA) and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) have launched a joint programme to end female genital mutilation (FGM) by 2012. (AllAfrica)

A countrywide survey of the incidence of rape in Cameroon has returned disturbing statistics: 20 percent of the nearly 38,000 women surveyed reported having been raped; another 14 percent said they had escaped a rape attempt. (AllAfrica)

Muslim and Christian leaders meeting in Mombasa on Thursday failed to break an impasse over the inclusion of kadhi's courts in a new constitution. (AllAfrica)

One quote sticks out in the debate on schoolgirl sex abuse. It belongs with the chairman of the national association of parents, Mr Musau Ndunda. He reportedly said, at a forum to debate the Teachers Service Commission report released this week, that the 12,000-plus pregnancies could be blamed on school trips, posting of unmarried men to girls' schools and evening classes that run late. (AllAfrica)

Ten women from the council of women councilors have returned home after attending a three-day conference at Indaba Hotel in Johannesburg, South Africa on the theme "Women in Politics". (AllAfrica)

PFIZER Global Pharmaceuticals has enjoined all Nigerian women to screen themselves periodically for breast cancer so as to be protected from the debilitating effects of the ailment, saying that early detection saves lives. (AllAfrica)

Minister of Women Affairs and Social Development, Mrs Salamatu Suleiman, has declared that statistics have shown that women are the most affected by poverty across the country. (AllAfrica)

Rivers State chapter of the International Federation of Women Lawyers (FIDA) has raised an alarm over the increasing level of violence and discrimination against women and the girl-child in the country. (AllAfrica)

While medical and psychological care are being provided to survivors of sexual violence in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 7,000 women and girls have been raped this year alone, UN and aid workers on the ground say the funding response has been too narrow, leaving key issues inadequately addressed. (AllAfrica)

The government yesterday launched a plan aimed at fighting Female Genital Mutilation. (AllAfrica)

SLUM Women's Initiative for Development, a non- government organisation in Jinja municipality, has embarked on a project to assist women acquire land at a low cost. (AllAfrica)

Participants in the conference organised in Kasserine, on Sunday, on "Tunisian Women, Symbol of Authenticity and Emblem of Modernity. Family as Foundation of Social Cohesion," extended their congratulations to President Zine el Abidine Ben Ali for his re-election, with an overwhelming popular majority, to the Presidency of the Republic, which eloquently evidences Tunisians' attachment to his person as a symbol of Tunisia's sovereignty. (AllAfrica)

Over 200 representatives of various women's groups from across the country, on October 21st, convened at the WEC Mission Camp in Kampant, Western Region for a 2-day workshop to reinforce dialogue between ex-circumcisers, practising circumcisers and their assistants for an accelerated total abandonment of Female Genital Cutting (FGC) in The Gambia. (AllAfrica)

Chairman of the Kano State Universal Basic Education Board (SUBEB), Hajiya Maryam Yola, has urged the state chapter of the Nigerian Association of Women Journalists (NAWOJ) to spearhead the publicity and enlightenment campaign on girl-child education in the state. (AllAfrica)

Wife of Cross River State governor, Mrs. Obioma Liyel Imoke, has said women farmers in the state form a major component of Nigeria's national agenda and Cross River State's 7-point agenda. (AllAfrica)

Somalia's hardline al Shabaab insurgents have closed down five humanitarian organisations in Somali southern border town of Balad Hawa, a rebel leader said. (AllAfrica)

Women's Solidarity Namibia in conjunction with the Swedish Women Centre or Centerkvinnoma are hosting a workshop to enhance the participation of women in Namibian politics. (AllAfrica)

Forty corpses have so far been recovered while 15 people are still missing in a boat mishap that occurred along Nano river, boundary between Bukuro in Baruten local government council area of Kwara state and Yariwondo village in Republic of Benin just as the state government confirmed that no indigene of the state was involved in the incident. (AllAfrica)

Many women become sex workers because they are unable to find work and face a life of poverty. However, some of the women wish to leave the industry and a project in Johannesburg is helping the women to do exactly that. (AllAfrica)

Congolese armed forces in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have brutally killed hundreds of civilians and committed widespread rape in the past three months in a military operation backed by the United Nations, Human Rights Watch said today. (AllAfrica)

Women's Solidarity Namibia in conjunction with the Swedish Women Centre or Centerkvinnoma are hosting a workshop to enhance the participation of women in Namibian politics. (AllAfrica)

The procedure used to investigate cases of sexual abuse in schools by teachers is ineffective, a new report says. (AllAfrica)

Three years after being diagnosed with HIV, Alice Mworia, 28, went for a routine medical check-up during which she told the nurse she had noticed an unusual vaginal discharge; a test revealed she had pre-cancerous lesions on her cervix that could develop into cancer if untreated. (AllAfrica)

THE NATIONAL Youth Leadership Forum-Ghana (NYLF-G), a youth advocacy group in the country, has expressed its disgust at the unfolding events surrounding the saga involving the proprietor of the Great Lamptey Mills Institute, Mr. Enoch Nii Lamptey Mills, and the 16 year old, which he is alleged to have impregnated and forcibly married. (AllAfrica)

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