This week on Herstory, a Nigerian doctor wins the World Bank SDGs award, the UN train Tanzanian women in horticulture, and a Liberian-based NGO seeks to empower young girls.

This week on Herstory, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala is appointed the Director-General of the World Trade Organisation, CBN announces strategy to eliminate gender gap in financial inclusion, and Zimbabwean women raise awareness on community issues through art.

In this interview, Adeyinka Tekenah discusses the largely untapped economy of locally produced coffee, policies to advance that economy, and what it means to be an indigenous coffee producer in Nigeria.

This week on Herstory, Yemi Alade is appointed Goodwill Ambassador for the UNDP, Nigerian gender and disability rights advocate wins the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation changemaker award 2020, and NGOs seek to end child marriage in Zimbabwe.

This week on Herstory, Google gives a business grant of Ksh125 million to 500 Kenyan women, the Nigerian Supreme Court voids an age-long patriarchal law of the igbo people, and a grassroot organisation donates L$300,000 to increase women participation in politics in Liberia.

Initially, COVID-19 was labelled the 'great equaliser', the disease that is no respecter of class. However it is turning out to be anything but that.

This week on Herstory, Ringier One Africa Media (ROAM) appoints Hilda Kragha as its new managing director, South Africa’s double Olympic champion, Caster Semenya, loses appeal against the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), and women groups sue Zimbabwe’s President Emerson Mnangagwa over sexist cabinet appointments.

This week on Herstory, Rwanda appoints its first female director of external intelligence, Mastercard and Womenwork Network collaborate to help female businesses in Kenya, and the Nigerian government begins profiling women and children in IDP camps in the northeast.

This week on Herstory, Kenya Women Empowerment Index reveals less than 50 percent of women living in Kenya’s urban areas are empowered, Khadra Ali improves Somalia’s human capital with digital literacy, and the Nigerian government rescues 71 Nigerian girls from Lebanon.

Gabon appoints its first female Prime Minister, a Kenyan environmental activist wins a $12 million lawsuit for her community, and Nigerian fashion label, Tiffany Amber, swaps couture for PPEs.