Nduta Waweru | face2faceafrica.com
- Apr 19, 2018
Three years in jail for Somaliland woman over ‘contemptuous’ poem
April 15, 2018 A young female poet from Somaliland has been jailed for three years over a poem that advocates the reunification of the...
Chikezie Omeje | International Centre for
- Apr 18, 2018
INVESTIGATION: Survivors of herdsmen attacks tormented by deaths, rape at Benue IDP camps
Fear of the known – killer herdsmen – dissuaded taxi drivers in Makurdi, the Benue State capital, from taking the ICIR reporter to Guma...
Meagan Flynn | The Washington Post
- Apr 18, 2018
Statue of ‘father of gynecology,’ who experimented on enslaved women, removed from Central Park
The first patient to endure James Marion Sims’s experimental surgery in 1845 was named Lucy. Lucy, an enslaved black woman in Alabama,...
Joanne Lu | UN Dispatch
- Apr 17, 2018
Myanmar Armed Forces Blacklisted By UN For Committing Sexual Violence Against Rohingya
For the first time ever, the UN secretary-general is including Myanmar Armed Forces on an annual blacklist of groups that are “credibly...
John Ray | ITV News
- Apr 12, 2018
Thousands flee fighting in eastern DR Congo to Uganda
At first the silence is strange, then unnerving. An African village missing its people. Perhaps 2,000 men, woman and children, vanished....
Koji Miki | The Mainichi
- Apr 11, 2018
History of Wartime 'Rape Camp' in Bosnia Wiped from Town's Collective Memory
VISEGRAD, Bosnia-Herzegovina -- About a 5-minute drive from the center of this town in Bosnia and Herzegovina's northeast is the hotel...