By Douglas MacMillan, The Washington Post CAPE TOWN, South Africa — He had been a cop, a factory worker and a taxi driver, but at 44, Shaun Cupido had yet to find a path to prosperity. Murderous gangs ruled Manenberg, the apartheid-built township where he had spent his whole life, and he was sick of […]
Johannesburg, South Africa, 04/11/2012, Electricians working on high voltage power lines. Highly skilled workmen servicing the electricity grid. (Shutterstock) By BBC News South Africa is gripped by a winter of discontent as the country faces its biggest ever power crisis. People are experiencing rolling blackouts of up to six hours a day and are having […]
By Damian Zane, BBC News A gold-crowned tooth is all that remains of assassinated Congolese independence hero Patrice Lumumba. Shot dead by a firing squad in 1961 with the tacit backing of former colonial power Belgium, his body was then buried in a shallow grave, dug up, transported 200km (125 miles), interred again, exhumed and […]
Hargeisa, Somaliland – November 10, 2019: Local Food Market with different goods. (Shutterstock) By Linda Nwoke The United Nations warns that over twenty million people will be at risk of starvation in 2022. They link it to delayed rains, lack of international aid, and drought in the Horn of Africa (Kenya, Somalia, and Ethiopia). Presently […]
By Edward Mcallister and Cooper Inveen, Reuters DAKAR/ACCRA, May 18 (Reuters) – It’s noisy inside the Mamprobi clinic in Accra as kids clamber over their mothers while they wait to get their measles vaccines. Outside, an area reserved for COVID-19 shots is empty. A health worker leans back in his chair and scrolls on a […]
Washington, D.C. – A sobering new report from RAINN looks at the state of sexual violence and post-rape care in six African nations: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Egypt, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda. Based on limited data available from the United Nations, lifetime rates of sexual violence vary from 17% in Nigeria to more than […]