Eritrea on Friday joined citizens of more than 20 countries in celebrating International Women 39;s Day as a public holiday. The annual event strikes a particular chord for women in the Horn of Africa, who have struggled not only to obtain equal rights but independence. Hanna Simon, the Eritrean ambassador to France, says the fight for gender ...

Detained Deputy Central Bank Governor of Liberia Charles Sirleaf was released from prison on Friday for health reasons after an application for his release was filed by his lawyers, according to the Liberia information ministry. ldquo;Charles Sirleaf is ordered to be removed from the Monrovia Central Prison to his home or any other place o ...

As the world marked International Women's Day, Friday 8 March, France awarded its inaugural Simone Veil Prize in honour of the revered politician and Holocaust survivor who died in 2017. The prize, along with a purse of 100,000 was awaded to Cameroonian woman Aissa Doumara Ngatansou , who runs an organisation that helps victimes of rape and for ...

An American NGO defending journalists targeted South African radical leftist opposition leader Julius Malema on Saturday after he tweeted the personal phone number of a reporter who has since received a flood of threats. The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed grave concern about threats and harassment against veteran South African ...