[GroundUp]A year ago, Ntombikayise Matyumza of Jeffreys Bay in the Eastern Cape started a Facebook page aimed at gay and lesbian youth. Today she has more than 14,000 followers across the country.
[Thomson Reuters Foundation]New Delhi -Botswana is targeting men in the police services, armed forces and prisons in a campaign to tackle violence against women, a government official said on Tuesday.
[UN News]As Ebola continues to ravage West Africa, leaving more than 4,000 people dead, the region is now on the brink of a major food crisis, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on the right to food has warned today.
[Thomson Reuters Foundation]Nairobi -Ayaimba could not believe it when the man walked into her office, two days after being arrested for raping his three-year-old daughter, and demanded she be returned to him.
[Health-e]More than three decades into South Africa’s HIV epidemic, treatment is widely available and HIV is not longer a death sentence – but stigma might be.
[Waza]The incidence of rape is difficult to estimate in Nigeria due to a lack of reliable data. However, between March 2012 and March 2013, 678 rape cases were reported in Lagos state alone. Rape victim Aronkus Ekanem (32), founder of End Rape and Sex …
[GroundUp]Calvin* has spent over half of his life in Cape Flats gangs. Today, he is 26 years old and a high-ranking member of both the Mongrels street gang and the 28s prison gang.
[AIM]Maputo -The International Monetary Fund (IMF) considers that Mozambique’s economic performance remains robust, with a projected growth in GDP this year of 7.5 per cent, but warns of the risks posed by the decline in the prices of key commodities w…
[Thomson Reuters Foundation]Yaounde -Central African governments must include local people when planning how to use land if they want to resolve problems caused by resource-hungry agribusiness and mining companies that have put the Congo Basin rainfore…
[allAfrica]Cape Town -The interim leader of Burkina Faso, Lieutenant Colonel Isaac Zida, has dismissed the African Union’s two-week deadline to hand power to civilians.