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Ramaphosa Declares Gender-Based Violence a National Disaster, Calls for Urgent Action

December 10, 2025 Steven Addamah 0

President Cyril Ramaphosa, in his weekly newsletter, on 8 December 2025, highlighted South Africa’s persistently high levels of violence against women and children, describing gender-based […]

Sudan’s Conflict Leads to World’s Most Devastating Humanitarian Crisis, Warns UN

March 15, 2025 Steven Addamah 0

Sudan’s ongoing war, ignited in April 2023 between the Sudanese Armed Forces (SAF) and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), has been described by aid […]

DRC’s Nobel Prize winner, surgical gynecologist, announces presidential bid

October 4, 2023 Geraldine Boechat 0

The Democratic Republic of the Congo’s (DRC) Denis Mukwege, a surgical gynecologist who won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work on sexual violence in […]

ICJ orders Uganda to pay $325 million to DRC

February 10, 2022 Geraldine Boechat 0

The International Court of Justice (ICJ), the UN’s highest court, has ruled in the dispute between Uganda and the DRC. The DRC had claimed $11 […]

Sexual violence in DRC: WHO head apologizes, promises to punish perpetrators

September 30, 2021 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

The WHO boss apologized Tuesday for the behavior of the organization’s employees who sexually abused dozens of people in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and […]

Guinea’s Most Wanted Man Arrested in Senegal

December 21, 2016 Geraldine Boechat 0

The most wanted man in Guinea, Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité, has been arrested in Senegal on Tuesday after seven years of hide-out. Aboubacar Sidiki Diakité, alias […]

Ghana: Sexual Violence on the Rise, gov’t Intensifies Efforts

June 20, 2016 Geraldine Boechat 0

A total of 1,300 girls in Ghana were defiled in 2014 while the recorded cases of rape increased from 290 in 2012 to 342 in […]

South Sudan: UN Panel urges arms embargo

January 26, 2016 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

A new report due to be released by a United Nations panel of experts tasked to investigate South Sudan’s civil war has recommend U.N Security […]

DRC: Gov’t soldiers raped 14 women in three days – UN report

November 19, 2015 Khalid Al Mouahidi 0

Government soldiers in Democratic Republic of Congo raped 14 women over a three-day period in the eastern region of the country, the human rights office […]

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