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Egyptian Minister of Health and Population Khaled Abdel-Ghaffar was elected deputy chair of the World Health Organization’s (WHO) 70th session Eastern Mediterranean Regional Committee (RC70), as per a statement from …

Prime Minister Mostafa Madbouly, in collaboration with the Ministry of Finance, announced that the government will suspend duties and customs on several goods for six months. In a press conference …

Nvak Foundation, a non-profit record label, has joined forces with She Arts, a female-focused arts festival, to launch MuSHEqua. The program aims to provide music education and career development opportunities …

Women can positively change society not only by farming or entrepreneurship or doing domestic chores but also by holding political positions at all levels of government,” a women’s leader in …

Over the past 12 years, Zulekha Hospital’s ‘Pink It Now’ breast cancer awareness campaign has successfully encouraged more than 15000 women in the UAE to attend free screenings and consultations …

Almost 50 countries in the world continue to keep nationality laws that contain gender-discriminatory provisions in their statute books, a UN expert warned. “In 24 countries, women are denied the …

EnterpriseAlumni, global market leader in alumni management software led by Chief Executive Emma Sinclair MBE, today joins 17,000 female-owned businesses who are globally certified as a Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) …

The Egyptian government, in collaboration with the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE), is set to announce next week an initiative aimed at reducing the prices of basic commodities, according to …

This year’s Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine has been awarded to Katalin Kariko and Drew Weissman, whose discoveries paved the way for the Pfizer/BioNTech and Moderna COVID-19 vaccines. The …

Mengistie Tegenie’s four sisters were married before the age of 18. Bright and academically gifted, their schooling—like that of many young women in Ethiopia—stopped after their arranged marriages. During his …