Since the 1970s and 80s, the world has risen in an effort to confront the AIDS epidemic, which has long plagued countries around the world. However, left out of this international conversation and progression, is sub-Saharan Africa, where ten percent of the population still suffers from AIDS. Lack of public awareness, limited access to information, and a withdrawal of international… Read more »
16 LONDON — A group of 49 migrants stranded at sea after being refused entry to any European port in late December, in a case seen as emblematic of the region’s increasingly hard-line approach to immigration, was finally allowed to land in Malta on Wednesday. The asylum seekers, who had been sheltering aboard two private rescue boats, will be shared… Read more »
Sub-Saharan countries, where up to 10 per cent of the population suffers from AIDS, “remain left out of the global HIV response” and lack access to medical care, Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), has warned. A lack of awareness and information about HIV amongst the population and a decline in international funding would exacerbate the problem, the aid group said. On the ground… Read more »
Nigerian soldiers raided the offices of a local newspaper and took away journalists who wrote an article that “divulged classified information” and put its troops’ lives at risk, the army said Monday.The Daily Trust said security agents “invaded” the newspaper’s bureau in the country’s troubled northeastern region and took away two journalists who worked on a story about the military’s… Read more »
The Congo’s Catholic Church has rejected the results of the Central African nation’s presidential election, saying they don’t match the data collected by its observers.There was widespread surprise Thursday after the Democratic Republic of the Congo’s electoral commission announced that opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi had won the presidency.Another opposition leader, Martin Faluyu, who was widely expected to be victorious, categorically… Read more »
Rebeca Gyumi, a thirty-one year old women of Tanzania, recieved the 2018 Human Rights Prize, awarded annually by the United Nations. Rebeca has been involved in specifically women’s rights from a young age, witnessing many of her classmates drop out of school due to pregnancy at as young as thirteen and married off to men double their age. She took… Read more »
Thank you, Minister Gyan-Baffour, for that kind introduction. I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to Vice-President Bawumia and the Ghanaian government for co-hosting this conference with the IMF. Your excellency, Vice-President Bawumia, Minister Gyan-Baffour, honored guests — it is my pleasure to welcome you to our conference on the Future of Work in sub-Saharan Africa. Why are we… Read more »
A fire still under investigation has destroyed 8,000 voting machines in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s capital — 80% of the city’s stock — just 10 days ahead of a presidential election, the nation’s electoral body and police said Thursday.Smoke still lingered the day after flames engulfed a warehouse housing electoral materials on Wednesday in Kinshasa, the officials said.The ruined… Read more »
At just 31 years old, Rebeca Gyumi has a list of accomplishments anyone twice her age would be proud of. She has successfully challenged her country’s legal system, winning a landmark ruling in 2016 to raise the age of child marriage for girls in Tanzania from 14 to 18; started a foundation to advocate for girls’ education; won the UNICEF… Read more »
Nigerian professor Richard Akindele, accused of demanding sex from a female student, was sentenced to prison on Monday.Akindele was convicted after pleading guilty to four criminal charges, including demanding gratification from a student and sexual coercion of a student, according to court documents seen by CNN.Akindele had pleaded not guilty to the charges in earlier court appearances at the Federal High Court… Read more »