Women Stories

Across the continent, women are helping to reimagine a sacred rite of passage in an effort to honour their cultures...

Agnes Pareiyo, the director and founder of the Tasaru Ntomonok Initiative and chair of the Kenya Anti-FGM Board (second from...

The fund will focus on women-led companies, helping them access money that banks are unwilling to lend them. And by...

Vera Songwe, Uneca’s Executive Secretary. FILE PHOTO | NMG Summary The executive secretary of the Economic Commission for Africa, Vera...

Nasieku (not her real name but a name used to protect her privacy and safety) remembers the pain, trauma and...

Girls at the Tasaru Rescue Centre in Narok County in Kenya’s Rift Valley.  A few weeks after Abigael Taki’s mother...

Kenya has never had a female governor, but that is likely to change this year, with nine women running to...

Solar panel and clean cookstove programs are reducing emissions, electrifying remote parts of Kenya and Tanzania Not so long ago,...

Not so long ago, few remote Maasai villages in southern Kenya or northern Tanzania had access to electricity. But now,...