[SAFA] Banyana Banyana midfielder Kylie-Ann Louw has been honoured as the Southland Conference League Female Athlete of the Year for a third consecutive season. Louw now holds the record for being the first player in history to win the award for the third successive year.

[Public Agenda] Effective management of national peace and stability over the years became a challenge because successive governments employed short-term measures that promoted and reinforced their sectional interest rather than pursue sustainable social policies, that would address issues of justice, equity, peace and stability.

[Daily Trust] Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) on Wednesday embarked on a sensitization campaign to attract more women into mainstream politics, an official said in Abuja

[The Herald] A Marange Resources employee who alleged that he had been kidnapped and sexually abused by three women who had offered him a lift was yesterday moved from Mutare Provincial Hospital's intensive care unit to police cells on charges of making a false report.

[State Department] Washington - A club started by a Peace Corps volunteer for secondary school girls in Liberia is giving the girls new ways to think about themselves and their futures.

[Public Agenda] A campaign has been outdoored to galvanize support for women parliamentary candidates contesting the forthcoming general election in 30 districts across the ten regions of Ghana to enhance their chances of winning the election.

[Biz-Community] Grazia South Africa, the weekly news and fashion women's magazine officially launched by Media24 on Thursday, 15 March, 2012, is now available in stores.

[Daily News] TANZANIA has been praised for its determination to bring about gender balance in parliament and other public institutions.

[Daily News] Zanzibar - ZUHURA Rajab Ngwali, 43, a mother of nine children including six disabled has been abandoned by her husband. Out of the six children with disabilities (one-deaf, three- physically, and two- mental disorder), four are female. "My husband has abandoned me and children (age between six and 13); and has recently married another wife.

[Ghanaian Chronicle] Hohoe - The authorities at the Hohoe Midwifery Training School are putting in place measures to reverse the poor perforce of students in their final examinations.

[Daily News] Zanzibar - Saving the lives of both mothers and their infants during childbirth is one of the most challenging problems facing many countries in Africa. In Zanzibar out of every 100,000 live births, 378 women die in labour or in complications related to childbirth.

[Times of Zambia] THE Football Association of Zambia (FAZ) has waived gate charges for the She-polopolo 2012 CAF Africa Women Championship qualifier against South Africa's Banyana Banyana as a way of encouraging fans to support the team in their quest to qualify for their first ever continental showpiece.

[Namibian] Keermanshoop - A Keetmanshoop woman who farms with cattle has refused to vacate the municipal camps she has been leasing from the municipality after she was served with an eviction notice on Monday.

[The Herald] MDC-T has disowned Chikomo Senator Mr Morgan Femai saying his utterances that women should keep themselves dirty and less attractive to curb the spread of HIV was not the party's position.

[SA Info] The Investec South Africa women's hockey team will take its Olympic Games preparations a step further with matches against Great Britain and Scotland before they take part in the Investec London Cup over the next three weeks in the United Kingdom.

[Daily Trust] Empowering girls and women is not a threat but one of the smartest social and economic decisions that a nation can make, Minister of Finance and Coordinator of the Economy, Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has said.

[Daily Trust] Three foreign-based players have been named in the Super Falcons' 21- Women squad that will play the final qualifying match for African Women Championship against Zimbabwe and the two-leg friendly tie against South Africa.

[Daily Trust] Kano - Decomposing remains of a man and a woman believed to be lovers were found in a car at the premises of a hospital in Kano on Monday evening, two months after a similar incident in the city.

[Vanguard] Calabar - NO fewer than 18 indigent women who have been suffering from Vesico Vagina Fistula, VVF, had their fistula repaired at the VVF centre Ogoja, Cross River State.

[DA] Education director in Port Elizabeth, Dr Nyathu Ntsiko, and MEC for Social Development, Pemmy Majodina, in the Eastern Cape must immediately intervene in the rape case at New Brighton high school.