Tags NEWS UN Chief Urges End of Female Genital Mutilation United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon launched a global campaign on Thursday to bring female genital mutilation to a stop
Tags GENERAL Ebola: Infections Slowing In Liberia Liberia might soon join the likes of Nigeria and Senegal as some of the Ebola free countries. The World Health
Tags NEWS Freedom of Expression Facing Challenges in Transitional Period in Egypt In recent months, there’ve been growing restrictions on what journalists can cover. They can’t, for example, go into the Sinai
Tags NEWS Africa Land Grab Conference Held in Joohannesburg A conference in Johannesburg this week heard that more land had been grabbed in Africa in the last 14 years
Tags NEWS Hundreds of Students Enroll in Reopened Somalia National University Many Somali students from far-flung parts of the Horn of Africa nation have been enrolling in the Somali National University.
Tags GENERAL Mauritius Slavery Heritage Today on our special series on Mauritius, we go to Le Morne Mountain, a world heritage site inscribed for its
Tags NEWS Zambians Mourn Sata’s Death The cause of President Michael Sata’s death has not been disclosed, but Sata had been ill for some time. Zambians
Tags NEWS Anti-Terror Experts Fear Islamic State is Responsible for Sinai Attacks Anti-terror experts fear the Islamic State group may have played a part in last week’s twin terror strike in the
Tags NEWS Uganda’s Gov’t Dismisses Reports of Buying Weapons for Juba Uganda’s military says it’s prepared to keep troops on the ground in South Sudan should the government there request a
Tags GENERAL Ebola: U.S Nurse Discharged After Controversial Isolation The American nurse forcibly quarantined in New Jersey over Ebola fears is going home. While in neighboring New York, a