Month: October 2015

Four women testifying at the trial of former President Hissene Habre of Chad told of being sent to Oudi-Doum, a desert camp north of Chad as sexual slaves for the army of the then-dictator Habré and that soldiers […]

Lengthy meetings were held on Saturday and Sunday, with students debating how to proceed with the campaign that started at their institution two weeks ago, and spread to other campuses across South Africa. […]

The Namibian government appears to be closing in on a deal to buy an outdated, undersized, overpriced French sea water purification plant that supplies uranium mines – a key industry in this southern African country. […]

While ballots were being counted for the “heavily favored” incumbent President of Cote d’Ivoire this week, solid new housing for the middle class and well-to-do was rising in the colonial city of Grand Bassam. […]

South Africa’s three top universities suspended classes this week as a growing student movement protested an ‘exclusionary’ fee hike that would hurt poor black students and force them further out of the education system. […]

Church leaders rallied their members to heed President Edgar Lungu’s call for a national day of devotion. Thousands were counted at the Show grounds this weekend in the capital city Lusaka for the five-hour open-air prayer session with top religious and political officials. […]

An investigative reporter whose hidden camera caught some 34 senior judges appearing to take bribes and pocket the loot has been showered with praise by Ghanaians on social media who say they are fed up with corruption in government. […]

The plight of Eritrean refugees was underscored last June when hundreds of Eritreans rallied in Tel Aviv protesting abuse of asylum seekers. Eritreans need asylum from “systemic, widespread and gross human rights violations,” rally organizers said, […]

As Gloria Gaynor sang in her song “I Will Survive,” it took all the strength I had not to fall apart. As I repeatedly told myself that cancer was no longer welcome in me anymore, I realized that as long as I knew how to love, I would stay alive. […]