South Sudan Refugees Sell Food Rations to Buy Soap, Salt, Clothes
It is a fairly-cloudy morning at Ayilo II refugee settlement in Adjumani district and Abil Deng Kur quietly steals out of her narrow mud-and-wattle conical hut. As she cleans her nose with her fingers, the 63-year-old South Sudanese refugee is filled with joy on seeing me. She runs towards me, hugs and shakes me as […]
Zimbabwean Girls Sold For Marriage As Hunger Bites
DRESSED in tattered clothes and with nothing on her cracked feet, Faith (15) resembles a street tramp. Perhaps, judging by her circumstances, she would envy to be one of the scores of street children that roam Zimbabwe’s urban areas. They at least enjoy some freedom. The impoverished family of the teenager has married her to […]
Students Spending On Booze, Bling and Clothes: South Africa
The three top things that black students spend their money on is alcohol, petrol and bling. Coloured students splurge on clothing, computer software and takeaways while white students spend their money on contraceptives, music and toiletries. This is according to research conducted by Student Village which was shared during a presentation in Houghton on Wednesday. […]
