AMwA is announcing a Vacancy - Regional Coordinator, UK/Europe to be based at our UK/Europe Office in London, United Kingdom. Based in London, United Kingdom, AMwA’s Regional Coordinator, UK/Europe will work with the Executive Director to facilitate the identification, planning, development, implementation, leadership, achievement and spearheading of policy advocacy and programme initiatives relevant to African women, within the UK and Europe, in line with AMwA’s mission and objectives.

On Tuesday, July 8, senior police officers in Nairobi, Kenya, beat,
sexually violated, and arrested a group of seven civil society advocates as
they planned a peaceful protest against government corruption. Two of them,
including Ann Njogu, a leading democratic voice and Kenyan lawyer who
helped push through Kenya's landmark Sexual Offences Act, suffered sexual
violations.

South Africa's highest court on Thursday ruled against African National Congress (ANC) leader Jacob Zuma in his attempt to stop seized evidence being used against him in a corruption trial. Nine of the 10 judges of the Constitutional Court said warrants used in raids on Zuma and his lawyer were valid and the state could use seized documents in its prosecution of Zuma, the frontrunner to succeed President Thabo Mbeki next year.