Nearly half of women polled across English and French-speaking countries in West and Central Africa, have experienced gender-based violence while using social media, indirectly pushing them out of that media, according to a study conducted across 18 countries in both of those regions. ldquo;The sense of insecurity online plays a role in th ...

A survey in 11 emerging economies showed people in those countries happy to be connected with smartphones and social media, even if they worry about the impact of digital lifestyles on society and on children. The Pew Research Center report found the vast majority of adults in these countries have access to a mobile phone of some kind, with ...

Addis Ababa 7 March 2019 (ECA) nbsp; ldquo;When you have women in positions of leadership, business does better and there rsquo;s more innovation, more value creation and more profit, rdquo; said Vera Songwe, Executive Secretary of the Economic Commission of Africa (ECA).

On International Women 39;s Day, CPJ has highlighted the cases of female journalists jailed around the world in retaliation for their work. At least 33 of the 251 journalists in jail at the time of CPJ 39;s prison census are women. https://cdn.modernghana.com/images/content/38201981229 osjvn0y442 iwdgraphic.jpg ...

Voters in Guinea-Bissau are to elect a new parliament Sunday in the hopes of ending a three-year-old leadership deadlock in a country that has become more renowned for drug trafficking than its cashew nuts. The onetime Marxist ruling party PAIGC, which has run the poor West African country of some two million for most of the 45 years since winni ...