Dar es Salaam, March 10 -- DODOMA: AS part of a three-day visit to Tanzania, the United Nations International Childrens Emergency Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Catherine Russell met with adolescent girls and young women innovators involved in a UNICEF-supported programme aimed at equipping youth with digital skills to address real-life challenges and empower their lives.

This comes with the background that women in Africa are 37 per cent less likely than men to access the internet.

In Tanzania, only 22 per cent of women possess basic digital skills compared to 32 per cent of men, according to the World Bank.

The report shows that boys aged 15 to 19 are more likely to own a mobile phone than girls of the same age and boys are more th...