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According to the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, there is “no commonly agreed definition of what constitutes ‘femicide’”. It has historically been defined as the killing of women and girls because they are female. Collecting data on the motive for a killing can be difficult. Because o...

An estimated 5.7 out of every 100,000 women and girls were killed in Nigeria in 2016. This internationally comparable rate for deaths from interpersonal violence is more than twice the global average of 2.6. More: Five facts: Femicide in South Africa ...

The UN estimates that 200 million women and girls around the world have undergone female genital mutilation (FGM), with 80% (160 million) occurring in Africa. ...

According to the most recent figures by the World Bank, Sudanese women had the highest unemployment rate in Africa in 2020 at 31.2%, followed by women in South Africa with an unemployment rate of 31.1%, Gabon with 29.8%, Eswatini with 27.4% and Botswana with 25.7%. ...

Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest rates of child marriage in the world, with six of the world’s 10 countries where the practice is most common situated in West and Central Africa, including Niger, the Central African Republic, Chad, Burkina Faso, Mali, and Guinea. In all six of these count...