Africa has increased the number of women in parliament but still looks set to miss a global goal of gender parity in politics ...

Nearly a third of Somalia's parliamentary seats will be reserved for female lawmakers in an election next month, the prime minister said, a measure long demanded by women's rights campaigners in the ...

Mr. Hudson is a senior fellow in the Africa program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. Conflict, famine and a great-power competition are colliding in the Horn of ...