
A number of programmes now exist that are helping to close the gender gap in African science, technology, engineering and maths.

Africa is far from having an ageing farming population. What is missing is a critical mass of skilled, young farmers with access to finance who could...

Many people around the world would not expect football to be popular among women in conservative Morocco, but it is, in fact, a fast-growing phenomenon.

Africa accounts for nearly 27% of the World Trade Organisation's membership and 35% of members from developing countries, but an African has never run it.

25-year-old Tunisian Ons Jabeur, the highest-ranked Arab woman in tennis history, knocked out China's Wang Qiang to become the first Arab woman to reach a Grand...