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

"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, ...

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

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

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 ...

The M23, whose top brass are mostly Congolese Tutsi, began its insurgency more than three years ago after a decade of ...

AND WE KNOW RUNNING JUST ONE MARATHON IS A BIG TEST OF ENDURANCE AND DETERMINATION. AND NOW IMAGINE RUNNING SEVEN MARATHONS ...

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 ...