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I Have Fought The Good Fight, But Cancer Seems To Be Getting The Better Of Me Now

I Have Fought The Good Fight, But Cancer Seems To Be Getting The Better Of Me Now

It is a bright Saturday afternoon and 19-year-old Margaret Muthama is busy selling a packet of biscuits to a customer under an umbrella stand at the Kenyatta Public Beach in Mombasa. Next to her, her younger siblings brother Katana and sister Faith watch the transaction quietly. They are learning the ropes of the trade, because […]

Why I Invited My Rapist To Stay The Night: Aspen Matis

Why I Invited My Rapist To Stay The Night: Aspen Matis

ON just her second day of university, Aspen Matis was raped in her dorm room. What she did next is something most people would find unfathomable she invited her attacker to stay the night. It’s only now, six years after the assault, that she herself understands why. Ms Matis, then 19, had just started as […]

A Woman Gives Birth On A Plane After Unexpectedly Going Into Labour: Watch Video

A Woman Gives Birth On A Plane After Unexpectedly Going Into Labour: Watch Video

A woman has given birth during a Los Angeles-bound China Airlines flight after unexpectedly going into labour. The baby girl was delivered by a doctor who happened to be on the flight from Bali on Thursday. The plane made an emergency landing in Alaska where the mother and baby were both taken to hospital. One […]

It’s Easy To Leave The UN Base In South Sudan But Departing Is Often Accompanied By Death

It’s Easy To Leave The UN Base In South Sudan But Departing Is Often Accompanied By Death

Whether it’s through breaks in the patchy razor-wired mud walls or out its gates, it is easy to leave the UN base here but departing is often accompanied by death. About 100 metres from the main gate of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS), a tractor-digger clears space in a […]

Earlier Bed Delivery Could Have Halved Sierra Leone Ebola Outbreak

Earlier Bed Delivery Could Have Halved Sierra Leone Ebola Outbreak

Supplying beds for Ebola patients to health facilities in Sierra Leone saved tens of thousands of lives by isolating patients, but providing them just one month earlier could have halved the number of reported cases, researchers said on Monday. The delivery of nearly 3,000 beds by Britain, Sierra Leone and aid agencies between September 2014 […]

Arrest Parents Of Child Brides: David Parirenyatwa

Arrest Parents Of Child Brides: David Parirenyatwa

Parents of children forced into early marriages should be arrested to help curb the scourge, Health and Child Care Minister David Parirenyatwa has said. Speaking at Mahusekwa near Marondera last week, Dr Parirenyatwa challenged chiefs and other traditional leaders to fight against early child marriages in rural areas. Stiff penalties should also be imposed on […]

Gabrielle Union Struggling To Get Pregnant But She Refuses To Blame It On Her Career

Gabrielle Union Struggling To Get Pregnant But She Refuses To Blame It On Her Career

She spent her 20s and 30s establishing herself in Hollywood, with roles in films like Bring It On.Now happily married, Gabrielle Union has opened up about the pain of infertility saying she hates hearing it’s because of her success. ‘Having a career is not the price that you pay for any ill,’ she pointed out […]

Chrissy Teigen And John Legend Expecting A Baby After Struggling To Get Pregnant

Chrissy Teigen And John Legend Expecting A Baby After Struggling To Get Pregnant

She’s been open about her fertility struggles.So it was great delight that Chrissy Teigen took to social media late Monday to reveal she and John Legend are expecting their first child. The happy news comes just weeks after the 29-year-old model spoke of her heartbreak as was having problems conceiving. The Sports Illustrated cover girl […]

Girls Kidnapped By Boko Haram (Chibok Girls) Are Alive: Many Have STDs And Are Pregnant: Escapee Chibok Girl Reveals

Girls Kidnapped By Boko Haram (Chibok Girls) Are Alive: Many Have STDs And Are Pregnant: Escapee Chibok Girl Reveals

There were indications weekend that many of the 200 girls of the Government Secondary School, Chibok abducted in April 2014, are alive and holed up in the Lake Chad region of the North-East epicentre of the battle to dislodge Boko Haram terrorists from Nigeria. Sources disclosed to Saturday Vanguard that the girls who were relocated […]

Alarm In Ghana Over Rise In Unsafe Abortions

Alarm In Ghana Over Rise In Unsafe Abortions

Unsafe abortions put women’s lives unnecessarily at risk. In Ghana, the high fatality rate is prompting calls for the easing of the abortion law so safe termination of pregnancy is within reach of all who desire it. Ten years ago, at the age of 18, Adease got pregnant. The young Ghanaian wasn’t married and so […]

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