In 2012 womens’ rights activist Joyce Banda became the first female president of which African Country?
"about policy change, particularly in education. She founded the Joyce Banda Foundation for Better Education. She founded the Young Women Leaders Network, National Association of Business Women and the Hunger Project in Malawi. She (jointly with President Joaquim Chissano of Mozambique) was awarded the 1997 Africa Prize for Leadership for the Sustainable End of Hunger by the Hunger Project, a New York-based non-governmental organisation. She used the prize money to fund the building of the Joyce Banda foundation for children. In 2006, she received the International Award for the Health and Dignity of Women for her dedication to the rights"
"country's first female vice-president. She was a Member of Parliament and Minister for Gender, Children's Affairs and Community Services. Before her active career in politics she was the founder of the Joyce Banda Foundation, founder of the National Association of Business Women (NABW), Young Women Leaders Network and the Hunger Project. In 2014, Forbes named President Banda as the 40th most powerful woman in the world and the most powerful woman in Africa. In November 2016, Banda announced she that she was willing to stand as a presidential candidate in the 2019 elections. Joyce Hilda Ntila was born on 12"
"only the fourth such election in the country's history following the end of Hastings Banda's period of one-man rule in 1994. Bingu wa Mutharika, who had won the 2004 election, picked his Foreign Minister Joyce Banda to be Vice President after successfully contesting the 2009 election. She was expelled from the Democratic Progressive Party and formed the People's Party when she refused to endorse President Bingu wa Mutharika's younger brother Peter Mutharika for president in the 2014 general election. Bingu wa Mutharika died of a heart attack on 5 April 2012, and Joyce Banda took the presidency according to the"
"on 5 April 2012. Mutharika was a politically vocal first lady. She publicly weighed in on the decision by the DPP to fire the first and second vice-president by stating that Joyce Banda (who had not publicly expressed an interest to run as President) was not qualified to run as president. She stated that Banda's supporters were tantalizing themselves by drawing parallels with Liberian first female President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. Some analysts have suggested that she may bid to run for Presidency in 2014. In August 2010, late president Bingu wa Mutharika appointed her as African Union Goodwill Ambassador for"
"power, the former First Lady was increasingly given the roles of the official Vice-President, now President Joyce Banda and Banda's name was omitted from the official Malawi cabinet list. She has also been appointed to the Malawi Cabinet as of September 8, 2011 as the National Coordinator of Maternal, Infant and Child Health and HIV/Nutrition/Malaria and Tuberculosis. Her work, including charity work has been considered as a salaried position by the Mutharika administration and she a monthly sum of over $7,000 for doing charity work as a coordinator of safe motherhood. On September8th, 2011, an online newspaper, Maravi post and"
"then kicked her out of the party. Therefore, the courts held that she was still the vice-president of the country even though she was not the vice-president of the party. Subsequently, Joyce Banda formed the People's Party. When Mutharika died in April 2012, Banda was still the Vice-President and thus succeeded Mutharika as President, leaving the DPP under Peter Mutharika in opposition. On 1 August 2011, Bingu wa Mutharika shuffled the leadership of the DPP. Bintony Kutsaira, who was secretary general of the party, was moved to the Office of the President and Cabinet and replaced by Wakuda Kamanga. Former"
"her 30s. Thandiwe and Rupiah Banda are the parents of twin boys, Temwani and Dunia, whose conception came as a surprise to both, according to an interview she gave with BBC Africa. Banda was elected President in 2008, making Thandiwe Banda the youngest First Lady in Zambia's history. During her tenure, Banda advocated for the creation of an official office for the First Lady with a government-funded budget to support her public duties and charities. She focused on women's issues, including healthcare and child care, during her tenure. Banda campaigned for stronger legislation to punish perpetrators of domestic and sexual"
"States (Barack Obama was elected president in 2009, becoming the first African-American to hold that office), France (Nicolas Sarkozy, a president of France of Hungarian descent), Germany (Angela Merkel, the first female leader of that nation), and Australia (Julia Gillard, also the first female leader of that nation). Following 1991, Western nations provided troops and aid to many war-torn areas of the world. Some of these missions were unsuccessful, like the attempt by the United States to provide relief in Somalia in the early 1990s. A very successful peace-making operation was conducted in the Balkans in the late 1990s, however."
"newspaper continued. Thandiwe Banda won her defamation suit against the ""Times of Zambia"" in May 2014. The court awarded Banda thousands of kwacha in damages as compensation. Banda was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2014 and traveled to neighboring South Africa for medical care. She returned to Zambia on January 10, 2015, following several months of medical treatment. Thandiwe Banda Thandiwe Banda is a Zambian political science teacher who served as the First Lady of Zambia from June 2008 until September 2011. Banda, who was in her 30s when she took over the position in 2008, was the youngest First"
"of all Central Africans, without exclusion."" Her call for talks between both sides to the conflict was welcomed by the parties. She was sworn in as President on 23 January 2014. André Nzapayeké was appointed as Prime Minister to serve during her tenure. She presided over a period that was said to be without law, functioning police or courts. Comparisons were drawn in asking if this would be the ""next Rwanda;"" although ""Al Jazeera""<nowiki>'</nowiki>s Barnaby Phillips suggested the Bosnian Genocide's aftermath may be more apt as people were moving into religiously cleansed neighbourhoods. Samba-Panza suggested poverty and a failure of"
"In 2015, Chibesakunda was elected president of the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) Court of Justice, based in Khartoum, Sudan, and is the first woman to hold this position. She succeeded Nzamba Kitonga of Kenya in the role. The last president her lady swore-in in her tenure was president Edgar Chagwa Lungu in August 2015. She has a son, Chita Chibesakunda. Lombe Chibesakunda Lombe Phyllis Chibesakunda (born 5 May 1944) is a Zambian lawyer and diplomat, and has been the chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Zambia, Solicitor General, Deputy Minister in the Ministry of Legal"
"Catherine Samba-Panza Catherine Samba-Panza (born 26 June 1956) was interim President of the Central African Republic from 2014 to 2016. She was the first woman to hold the post of head of state in that country, as well as the eighth woman in Africa to do so. Prior to becoming head of state, she was Mayor of Bangui from 2013 to 2014. Samba-Panza was born in Fort Lamy, Chad, to a mother from the Central African Republic (CAR) and a Cameroonian father. Prior to politics, she was a businesswoman and corporate lawyer. She moved to the CAR at the age"
"Africa, 2nd Vice President,; • Mr. Clement Julius Mashamba, Tanzania, 3rd Vice-President; • Mr. Alfas Muvavarigwa Chitakunye, Zimbabwe, Rapporteur, • Mr. Cyprien Adébayo, Benin, Member; (former 1st Vice President 2010-2012) • Mrs. Agnès Kabore, Burkina Faso, Member;(former Chairperson 2010-2012) • Mr. Andrianirainy Rasamoely, Madagascar, Member; • Mrs. Maryam Uwais, Nigeria, Member • Mrs. Amal Muhammad El Henqari, Libya, Member • Mrs. Félicité Muhimpundu, Rwanda, Member; As at October 2008, the elected Committee of Experts were (name, country, position): • Ms. Seynabou Ndiaye Diakhate, Sénégal, Chairperson; • Ms. Marie Chantal Koffi Appoh, Côte d'Ivoire, Vice-Chairperson; • Ms Boipelo Lucia Seitlhamo, Botswana,"
"In addition to helping bring an end to 14 years of warfare in Liberia, this women's movement led to the 2005 election of Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as president of Liberia, the first elected woman leader of a country in Africa. Sirleaf is co-recipient of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize along with Gbowee and Tawakel Karman. The three were awarded the prize ""for their non-violent struggle for the safety of women and for women's rights to full participation in peace-building work."" In Sirleaf's re-election campaign of 2011, Gbowee endorsed her. Recognizable when wearing their white WIPNET T-shirts, Gbowee and the other"
"Thandiwe Banda Thandiwe Banda is a Zambian political science teacher who served as the First Lady of Zambia from June 2008 until September 2011. Banda, who was in her 30s when she took over the position in 2008, was the youngest First Lady in Zambia's history. She is the current wife of former President Rupiah Banda. Rupiah Banda's first wife, Hope Mwansa Makulu, died in 2000. He and his second wife, Thandiwe Banda, married during the 2000s, despite an age gap of nearly forty years. He was around 70 years at the time of their wedding, while she was in"
"and isolate his vice-president, Joyce Banda. He expelled her from the party in 2010 because she refused to accept the nomination of Peter Mutharika as the next president. She remained vice-president of the country because there had been no formal impeachment process. As a result of the Cochrane-Dyet 2011 cable controversy that accused Mutharika of being increasingly 'arrogant' and 'autocratic', he expelled the British High Commissioner. In international relationships, his close relationships with Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Omar al-Bashir of Sudan were controversial. In 2011, days of nationwide protests occurred, sparked by worsening fuel shortages, rising prices and high"
"served briefly as South Africa's acting president in 2005, when both President Thabo Mbeki and the Deputy President were outside the country. Furthermore, she was chosen by the cabinet to be the constitutional and official head of state in an interim capacity for 14 hours from 24 until 25 September 2008, between the resignation of Thabo Mbeki and the taking of office by Kgalema Motlanthe. She was the first and to date only woman to have held the post of President in South Africa and the first woman to be head of state of South Africa since Elizabeth II's reign"
"Central African Republic (MISCA) to be deployed to the country, and France to lead operations with additional troops sent to bolster its force in the country. Following a summit of Economic Community of Central African States (CEEAC), including the attendance of all the country's MPs, Djotodia resigned from the presidency on 10 January 2014. The National Transitional Council chose Bangui mayor Catherine Samba-Panza as interim president on 20 January 2014. A period of lawlessness prevailed during the early days of her presidency with people moving into religiously cleansed neighbourhoods as the UN warned of a genocide. Anti-Balaka attacks continued against"
"elections. She was re-elected to the National Assembly with a 9,259 vote majority. Following the elections she was appointed Minister of Gender. In 2012 she defended the rights of journalists who got detained and whose cameras were confiscated. In 2017 she became an activist against gender inequality and child marriages. The same year she also proposed a revised version of Marriage Bill which will ban any marriages between a man and a woman until both are at least 21 years of age. Kalima was a widow, and the goddaughter of former President Rupiah Banda. Kalima died at Maina Soko Military"
"Hifikepunye Pohamba, former President of Namibia, Current Chairperson of the Panel of the Wise; North Africa (Egypt) Mr. Amr Moussa, former Secretary-General of the League of Arab States; East Africa (Uganda) Dr. Specioza Wandira Kazibwe, former Vice President of Uganda; Central Africa (Gabon) Mrs. Honorine Nzet Biteghe, former Minister for Women and Family; West Africa (Liberia) Dr. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, former President of Liberia. Southern Africa (Mozambique) Dr. Luisa Diogo, former Prime Minister of Mozambique, Current Chairperson of the Panel of the Wise; North Africa (Algeria) Mr. Lakhdar Brahimi, former UN Envoy for Syria, among others; East Africa (Uganda) Dr."
"institution that has been tasked with spearheading Rwanda’s development and tackling the most urgent problems and opportunities affecting the country’s economy.” CNN, explained the focus that Rwanda has been getting from large corporations like Starbucks and Costco, “Why the attention to Rwanda, a land-locked country of about 9 million people about the size of Maryland? It's no accident. Many of the corporate ties between the U.S. and Rwanda can be traced back to a Chicago-area businessman: Joe Ritchie.” In 2010, Ritchie met Joyce Banda, then Vice President of Malawi. He believed that she had potential to be one of the"
"member. Former Mozambican First Lady Graça Machel is the only person to have served as the First Lady of two different republics. She became the First Lady of South Africa on 18 July 1998 upon her marriage to Nelson Mandela. First Lady of Mozambique The First Lady of Mozambique (Portuguese: ""Primeira-Dama de Moçambique"") is the title held by the wife of the President of Mozambique. There have been just three First Ladies since Mozambique's independence in 1975. The country's current First Lady is Isaura Nyusi, wife of President Filipe Nyusi, who has held the position since 2015. The Office of"
"removed the current leader, Charles Taylor, and with the help of the United Nations deployed a new democratic form of government that stands for equal rights and even has a women president in Ellen Johnson Sirleaf. This change in government was also apparent in Rwanda in 1993 when the genocide finally stopped. The country had shifted from dictatorship to pure democracy and gave both men and women the right to vote. The country also installed a quota system where a certain number of government seats must belong to women. The country's quota was 30% of seats, however women now hold"
"together. Hope Mwansa Banda (born 29 August 1941), died in South Africa on 11 October 2000. She was buried in Leopards Hill Cemetery. His second wife, Thandiwe Banda, a political science teacher, is more than thirty years younger than Banda. Thandiwe Banda served as th First Lady of Zambia during his presidency from 2008 to 2011. In addition to his sons with his first wife, Hope Mwansa Banda, Banda also has two sons from previous relationships and a set of twins from his current marriage to Thandiwe Banda. Banda was elected as a Member of Parliament for Munali Constituency in"
"hand, leading to the forced displacement of Muslim civilians by anti-Balaka in Bangui and western CAR. On 11 January 2014, Michael Djotodia and Nicolas Tiengaye resigned as part of a deal negotiated at a regional summit in neighboring Chad. Catherine Samba-Panza was elected as interim president by the National Transitional Council, becoming the first ever female Central African president. On 23 July 2014, following Congolese mediation efforts, Séléka and anti-balaka representatives signed a ceasefire agreement in Brazzaville. By the end of 2014, the country was de facto partitioned with the anti-Balaka in the southwest and ex-Seleka in the northeast. On"
"People's Party (Malawi) People's Party is a political party in the Republic of Malawi that was founded in 2011 by Joyce Banda, from May 2009 to April 2012 Vice-President of Malawi, and President since 7 April 2012. Joyce Banda created the People's Party after being expelled from the ruling Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) when she refused to endorse President Bingu wa Mutharika's younger brother Peter Mutharika as the successor to the presidency for the 2014 general election. During 2011, the court refused to register the organisation as an official political party because its name sounded too similar to others in"
"of the Niger Basin Authority (NBA) to the COP21 held in Paris. Sidibé Cissé is married and the mother of four children. Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé (born 4 January 1948) was the Prime Minister of Mali from 2011 to 2012, the first woman to be appointed to the position in the country's history. She was announced to the position by decree on 3 April 2011, replacing Modibo Sidibé. On 22 March 2012, following the suspension of the constitution in the 2012 Malian coup d'état, she was removed from office and reported to be detained by junta"
"In 1992, she contested to be president under the Social Democratic Party, but was placed fourth in the primary election, although she won the presidential nomination for her state, Kwara. She re-contested to be president in 1998, under the platform of People's Democratic Party, but lost to Olusegun Obasanjo. In 2003, she defected from PDP to Progressive Action Congress to become the first woman to represent a registered party and be a presidential candidate but lost to Obasanjo again. After losing out in the 2011 presidential elections primaries to eventual president, Goodluck Jonathan, notably getting only a single vote, she"
"using his speech on the occasion to call for unity. The PF alleged fraud and refused to recognize Banda's victory, while Sata's supporters rioted in Lusaka and Kitwe. As President, Rupiah Banda was focused on economic development, travelling abroad to promote Zambian trade to other world leaders. In December 2010 he travelled to Egypt to meet with President Hosni Mubarak. In mid-2009 it was announced that the MMD National Executive Committee had chosen Banda as the party's candidate for the 2011 presidential election. Some criticized this, arguing that the nomination process should be open to other candidates; Mpombo, the Defense"
"Square launch of her new fragrance Truth or Dare by Madonnain New York, Madonna said they're happy that Malawi's former vice president is now leading the country. Oponyo has six children. She is married to Patrick Oponyo. She is sister to the president of Malawi, Joyce Banda, who is the founder of the development and education Joyce Banda Foundation. She is sister-in-law to barrister, judge and former Malawi Chief Justice, Richard Banda. Anjimile Oponyo Anjimile Mtila-Oponyo is a Malawian development worker and education administrator. They have worked in education administration for the World Bank, International Monetary Fund and the United"
"Republican President Dr Kenneth Kaunda, Princess Nakatindi Wina and opposition leader Dean Namulya Mung’omba. Captain Solo received a presidential pardon after serving 13 years imprisonment by the then third Republican President Rupiah Banda on 28 December 2010. Then President Levy Mwanawasa had also exercised mercy on him by commuting his death sentence to a 20-year jail term. Solo said although he has walked back to freedom, he is economically bound and depends on a certain pastor for shelter, food and clothing. Steven Lungu died on 11 August 2012, aged 50, at the Kanyama Clinic, in Lusaka after a long battle"
"by supporting scholarships for girls in secondary school. Madonna's visit to Malawi in April 2013 to see these schools was soured by a war of words. While Madonna stated publicly that they remained committed to the children of Malawi The government of Malawi, headed by President Joyce Banda, sister of Anjimile Mtila-Oponyo accused Madonna of lying and blackmail. Trevor Neilson, whose Global Philanthropy Group is managing Madonna's projects in Malawi, asserted that ""The President of Malawi appears to be using their office to pursue the financial interests of their family."" A year earlier in April 2012, at the Macy's Herald"
"of 18. She was trained in law at Panthéon-Assas University. She was appointed Mayor of Bangui, the capital of the CAR, by the National Transitional Council (CNT) during the 2012–13 conflict on 14 June 2013. Her appointment was accepted by both sides in the conflict, as well as by French President Francois Hollande. She is a non-partisan. Following the Central African Republic conflict under the Djotodia administration and President Michel Djotodia's resignation after a CEEAC summit on 10 January 2014, Alexandre-Ferdinand Nguendet served as acting president until the CNT elected Samba Panza as interim President from a list of eight"