President John Dramani Mahama says both Ghana and China have made significant progress in advancing women’s rights and ...

Voters in Ghana elected the country’s first woman vice president, Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang, in early December 2024. Voters also elected John Mahama as president, a man who had served as president ...

In a meeting convened by Media Foundation for West Africa and Alliance for Women in Media Africa, Ghanaian female journalists shared stories of their challenges, as well as the harassment they ...

The Non-governmental organisation, Campaign for Female Education (CAMFED) Ghana, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding ...

Wives of Presidents play certain crucial roles in the period of their husbands' presidency is common around the world.  First Ladies in Ghana play an important role in the affairs of the ...

Two Nigerian women shared challenges they faced in Ghana’s job market, claiming their nationality became a barrier to ...

Women in Mining Ghana has announced a new set of executives, as the advocacy group for women in the country's mining sector looks to build on a decade of progress. The decision was confirmed during a ...

The majority of women in West Africa work in the informal sector at shops such as this one in Ghana. Many informal sector entrepreneurs have lost their livelihoods during the COVID-19 pandemic and are ...

ACCRA, Ghana (AP) — When Abigail Kwartekaa Quartey decided as a teenager to become a professional boxer – an unusual choice for a young woman in a working-class neighborhood of Ghana's capital of ...

Ghana has lost one of its most formidable and uncompromising figures. Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings – former first lady, political activist and champion of women’s rights – died in Accra on Thursday at ...

Last year marked the 400 th anniversary of the start of the slave trade in West Africa and was also known as the "Year of Return" to Ghana, calling the survivors of the descendants to return home, ...

Evelyn Sewodey, 25, used to sell fried yams in her village of Tanyigbe, a job that really wasn't going anywhere. Two years ago she heard about a new free program that taught electrical and solar ...