The Tanzanian government has revealed that at least 9,011 schoolgirls were impregnated in the country in 12 months. Omary Kipanga,…
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The civil war in Ethiopia has resulted in the death of some 600,000 civilians, a staggering estimate for a conflict that has lasted only two years and has been focused on a single region, Tigray, of around six million inhabitants. However, in the absence of official counts, the calculations of the European Union, international organizations, and experts concur on a devastating mortality rate in a war the Ethiopian government has deliberately tried to shield from international public opinion. The first to put these figures on the table was Jan Nyssen, professor emeritus of geography at the University of Ghent in Belgium. “Hunger was used as a weapon of war,” he says.
Stocks for cholera vaccines are reportedly running short as Malawi’s worst epidemic in decades has sparked massive demand, a local…
According to the Interparliamentary Union (IPU), which keeps track of representation in national parliaments throughout the world, women currently make up 12 percent of Sierra Leone’s Parliament.
Flocks of white, black and brown ducks hunt for snails and bugs as they patrol the grapevines at a vineyard in South Africa’s winemaking town of Stellenbosch.
Local media on Friday reported that Kenyan police have discovered the body of a prominent LGBTQ rights campaigner stuffed inside…
By the time you are reading this, I will hopefully be heading for Bo, the second capital city of Sierra…
Have you sat to think why military coups occur in West Africa more frequently than in East or Southern Africa?…
A Nigerien military helicopter on Monday, crashed at Niamey Airport, killing three, including an expatriate instructor. The Niger Republic’s Defence…
Authorities have said that the death toll from a gas tanker that exploded in Johannesburg initially estimated to be eight…