Mugabe appoints first woman vice president
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Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe has installed the country&#39;s first woman Vice President, two days after his ruling ZANU-PF endorsed her for a similar party position.
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A bill is introduced in Zimbabwe's parliament to allow President Mugabe to choose his own successor.
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Text of report in English by Iranian news agency IRNA website  Baku, 26 May: Iran's Vice-President and head of the Department of Environment Ms Fatemeh Va'ez-Javadi here Friday [25 May] stressed on expansion of cooperation with Azerbaijan.
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NEW DELHI, July 21 -- Lawmakers elected India's first female president, officials announced Saturday, in a vote seen as a step forward for hundreds of millions of Indian women and girls who face bitter discrimination in everyday life.
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Vice President Joyce Mujuru, the first woman appointed to the post, spent her first day as acting president yesterday while President Robert Mugabe took his vacation, state radio said.
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Hamid Karzai was sworn in on Tuesday as Afghanistan's first democratically elected president at a ceremony attended by Vice President Dick Cheney and Defense Minister Donald Rumsfeld.
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NEW DELHI -- India chose its first female president yesterday in an election hailed as a victory for women in a country where gender discrimination is deep-rooted and widespread.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe  announced on Friday that general elections would be held on  March 29 in the economically devastated southern African  nation.
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Afghanistanâs new cabinet was being sworn in today, a day after Hamid Karzai chose its members in his first major decision since his inauguration this month as the nationâs first democratically elected president.
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Cape Town - Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang was among the first South Africans on Friday to congratulate Kenyan deputy environment minister Wangari Maathai on being the first African women to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Zimbabwe's ruling party congress came to an end after electing its first woman vice president while the country's controversial information minister appeared to be losing favour.
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Wangari Muta Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize, was honoured Friday for her efforts to help women, clean up the environment and battle corruption.
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Zimbabwe's ruling party on Saturday confirmed the election of the first woman candidate as deputy to President Robert Mugabe at the end of a congress which also endorsed Mugabe as party leader for another five years.
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The process has begun in the Knesset to amend the Basic Law: The Government such that the prime minister will be authorized to appoint more than one vice-prime minister.
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Joyce Mujuru, attends the ruling ZANU-PF party annual convention in Harare, Dec. 2. Mujuru, a longtime member of President Robert Mugabe&#39;s cabinet and a veteran of the 1970s guerrilla war against white minority
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Robert Mugabe, the Zimbabwean president&#39;s ruling ZANU-PF, confirmed the first woman to become his deputy today, at the end of a party congress which also endorsed him as leader for another five years.
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First lady Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner will become Argentina's first elected woman leader, after easily winning a presidential vote largely centered on her husband's economic successes.