In the Middle East and North Africa, just 18% of women are formally employed, according to the World Bank. Experts say more ...

Libya authorities uncovered nearly 50 bodies this week from two mass graves in the country’s southeastern desert in the latest tragedy involving people seeking to reach Europe through the chaos-strick ...

"Women are not trusted to be in the highest ... This places them ahead of regions like South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. Tanzania's President Samia Suluhu Hassan is standing for ...

From Ghana to Namibia, recent appointments of women to top political positions have been encouraging. But with more women in ...

Despite (sometimes valid) stereotypes of Africa as a continent where women are often politically and socially marginalized, ...

Thouria Moullablad’s family frowned when she first told them she planned to make a living as a cheikha, but now she is ...

Hundreds of Congolese women were raped and burnt alive after Rwandan-backed militants raided a prison. The female inmates ...

Sam Nujoma was said to have ‘marshalled the Namibian people during the darkest hours of our liberation struggle’.

Video of CCTV posted online captured an alleged romance scammer robbing a pensioner blind on their first date, ditching the ...

Old Salem Museums & Gardens in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, hosts a Black History Month celebration in February with ...

Pastor Joann Artis Stevens is now Hines Chapel’s first woman pastor, a church that ... as a culture, as African-Americans,” Pastor Stevens said. “I think it’s important to have strong ...

"How does he know what's going on? He was there for two weeks and he's an expert in USAID? Give me a break," said former USAID Administrator Andrew Natsios.