The Bush administration has taken action against an international charity in Africa over work it does in China, a step the group says is politically motivated and dangerous for poor African women and girls.
Forum for the Empowerment of Women organised the SOWETO pride on 27 September, despite political changes in the country and the high levels of hate crimes.
Angola's new government is promising better health facilities at both primary and secondary care levels, as well as to reduce the prevalence of HIV/AIDS over the next four years.
Disabled people in northern Uganda are calling on the government to provide a more targeted HIV response. Most of them are those who were injured during the conflict between the government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).
The debate over abortion has gone on for decades in Kenya as pro-life and pro-choice camps lock horns over the thorny issue of legalisation. But in the midst of the storm one scientist stands undeterred by attacks from opponents, firm in his resolve that every woman has the right to determine her own reproductive life.
At least 300 women are victims of sexual violence every year in Bamako, according to local police records, but the actual figure is much higher said the president of the Bamako-based non-profit, Women in Law and Development in Africa.