Over 5,000 love struck women thronged the Kenyatta International Conference Center (KICC) on Saturday with the aim of finding true love and restoring broken marriage relationships. The conference which started running on Friday under the theme ‘Your set time of marriage’ was presided over by Nigerian self proclaimed pastor of marriage Chris Ojigbani. Some of [...]

A 45 year-old man, Abdulahi Ahmed Babangida, who allegedly lured an 8-year old Primary 2 pupil with N20 and raped her, has confessed that he enjoys having sex with under-aged girls. In his confessional statement to the police, Babangida said he has been raping under-aged girls for the past 20 years and has been deriving [...]

Leaders of militias that carried out mass rape in Democratic Republic of Congo will face war crimes charges, a UN conflict envoy said Tuesday. Margot Wallstrom, special representative on the prevention of sexual violence in conflict, made a direct warning to the heads of militias and armed groups in the African nation where more widespread [...]

U.N. officials said they will toughen efforts to thwart the kind of mass rape reported recently in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and they urged the country to ramp up a search for a missing human rights activist believed to be kidnapped. Both the abduction and the rapes occurred in North Kivu in eastern [...]

The United States will help any effort to bring to justice rebels accused in the “horrific” mass rape of women and children in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday. Rebels from the Mai Mai militia and Rwandan Hutu FDLR, who occupied the town of Luvungi in North Kivu [...]

IN the last seven months, a total of 345 rape cases have been reported. Out of this figure, 83 are cases of children under the age of 11,  Police Commissioner Isaac Magagula has revealed. Speaking on Saturday during the Gege Crime Prevention Campaign, Magagula noted that sexual abuse and domestic violence cases had become a [...]

The African Union has declared 2010 to 2020 as the decade of African Women and to mark Women’s Day, the Daily News has spoken to women in various sectors in South Africa about what changes they hope to see over the next 10 years. However, before looking to the future, a reflection of the past [...]

Nothing about Ijeoma Akobundu’s demeanour suggests her profession. The 26-year-old indigene of Imo State is a gentle soft-spoken lady, and was recently elected as the secretary of the tenants’ association of her Surulere residence. She is a commercial sex worker. Every evening, she leaves for her current place of business; a seedy unnamed hotel near [...]

Mrs Juliana Azumah-Mensah, the Minister of Women and Children’s Affairs (MOWAC), on Wednesday pledged the government’s commitment to strengthen Ghanaian women in senior governance positions to promote gender equality and equity under its 93Better Ghana” agenda. Taking her turn at the Meet-The-Press series in Accra, she said MOWAC had finalised its four-year medium term development [...]

There is overwhelming evidence to prove that religion has failed in Ghana to a very large extent to curb prostitution in particular. It must be explained that all religions frowns on prostitution and therefore have very stringent provisions in terms of punishment for sex-related crimes. For instance Islam preaches lashes and in some cases stoning [...]