On Wednesday, 2 February 2022, the Taliban said they have reopened public universities for women students in six of Afghanistan’s 34 provinces, a move marking a major concession to international demands by the country’s new rulers.
President Joe Biden has said he will nominate a Black woman to the US Supreme Court for the first time in history, filling the vacancy left by retiring Justice Stephen Breyer.
Ahead of the 2023 general election in Nigeria, women have vowed to contest for various elective positions, saying unlike in the past elections, women would not place second fiddle in the coming poll.
By Tanya Maswaure
First Lady of Nigeria, Dr Aisha Muhammadu Buhari has inaugurated the Board of the newly established Future Assured College. The newly established college strives to improve the lives of the youths from less privileged backgrounds, especially those affected by the insurgency. Future Assured College, alongside the first lady, has aspired to change many lives, and this is just the beginning.
Pakistan’s first female Supreme Court judge has been sworn in in the Islamabad capital. In the Muslim-majority country’s top court, Ayesha Malik, 55, now sits on a bench with 16 other male colleagues
A British-Belgian teenager became the youngest woman to fly solo around the world on Thursday and the first person to do so in a microlight plane after a five-month, five-continent odyssey in her Shark ultralight.
By Tanya Maswaure
Yvonne Denise Aki-Sawyerr, OBE, serving as the current mayor of Freetown, Sierra Leone’s capital and largest city, has been awarded the Bloomberg award for the Mayors Challenge this week. The annual competition recognizes 15 cities across the globe with the most promising ideas, innovations, and most recently, their adjustment to the pandemic.
