Medicins Sans Frontieres(MSF) reported that they have treated about 157 women that have been beaten and raped in South Sudan. Medicins Sans Frontieres is also known in English as Doctors without Borders. Since Mid-November there has been a dramatic spike in violence against women in that same area. Most of the women attacked were traveling in between neighboring communities for… Read more »
Nairobi, Kenya (CNN)Six people have been arrested after a teenage boy died in an adulthood initiation ritual that went wrong in Kenya.
CNN)At least 35 people died in a boat accident on Lake Victoria in Uganda on Saturday, according to the Ugandan Police Force.
Lagos, Nigeria (CNN)A Nigerian court has denied bail to university professor Richard Akindele, charged with four counts of corruption after allegedly demanding sex from a female student.
A prominent critic of veteran Rwandan president Paul Kagame has been acquitted by Rwanda’s high court of charges that included inciting insurrection and forging of documents. Diane Rwigara, a 37-year-old activist and accountant has repeatedly accused Kagame of stifling dissent and criticised his Rwandan Patriotic Front’s unyielding grip on power since it assumed control after ending the country’s 1994 genocide.
The sexual attacks and beatings in South Sudan over the last 12 days have targeted women walking to collect food to take home to their families. Groups of men numbering up to 20 have been accused of the assaults. Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said on Saturday that it had given emergency medical and psychological help to 157 women and girls… Read more »