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A World Bank report on inequality in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) – comprising Botswana, Eswatini, Lesotho, Namibia, and South Africa – found that women in SACU on average earn 30% less than their male counterparts (with similar education and other relevant characteristics). In Sout...

According to the latest figures from the World Bank, Sudanese women had the highest unemployment rate in Africa in 2021 at 30.5%, followed by women in South Africa at 30.3%, Gabon at 29.7%, Eswatini at 26.5% and Somalia at 25.7%. ...

Between October and December 2022, South Africa recorded an alarming 12,419 rapes. This equates to a recorded rape rate of 20.3 per 100,000 people (based on the 2022 mid-year population estimates). ...

In 2021, Nigeria’s female population was roughly 104 million or 49.3%. ...

Kenya's female population stood at 27.6 million in 2021. ...

According to the most recent homicide statistics from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, 523 women were victims of femicide in Kenya in 2020. This translates to 1.93 out of every 100,000 women. ...

In the five-year period from 2015 to 2020, a total of 13,815 women over the age of 18 were murdered, according to the South African Police Service. That’s an average of 2,763 murders a year, or about seven women a day. ​​Compared with other countries where stats are available, South A...

For 2022, Statistics South Africa estimates the mid-year population to be 60.6 million people. Approximately 51% (about 31 million) of the population is female. ...

Adoption in Nigeria is not restricted to any gender or based on marital status as the law makes provision for both genders either married or unmarried. A woman who is up to 35 years old can adopt without the consent of a man as long as she is deemed fit. ...