Experts race against clock to quell Ebola outbreak in remote DR Congo province
A race against the clock has begun to contain an outbreak of Ebola in a remote northern area of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO) said today. Twenty cases of Ebola have been reported in the DRC’s Bas Uele Province – near the vast country’s border with […]
Tanzania’s Child Marriages Now Rampant
THE Ministry of Health, Community Development, Gender, Elder and Children is set to amend the marriage law to curb child marriages which are becoming rampant. Speaking in Parliament on Thursday before wrapping up budget estimates for her ministry, the Minister of Health Ummy Mwalimu said they are planning to amend the Marriage Act of 1971 […]
The Condom Divide in Sudan
Islamists and secularists are virtually at war in Sudan over a recent newspaper article on the condom usage and the concept of the faithfulness among couples. And the author of the article, Ms Shamail Alnour, is in deep trouble. Radical Islamists, led by cleric Mohamed Ali Al-Gizoli, want her charged with apostasy. The crime is […]
