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Nigerian Development Guru Amina Mohammed Appointed to the U.N. leadership

Nigerian Development Guru Amina Mohammed Appointed to the U.N. leadership

The incoming U.N. Secretary-General, António Guterres, has designated Nigerian environment minister Amina Mohammed as his right-hand woman. The 54-year-old, who is of mixed British-Nigerian heritage, brings a wealth of development experience to the role. Mohammed has worked alongside outgoing U.N. chief Ban Ki-moon in pushing the international community to wipe out poverty and tackle climate […]

Stigma ‘Killing’ South Africans Living With HIV: They don’t feel welcome in government clinics

Stigma ‘Killing’ South Africans Living With HIV: They don’t feel welcome in government clinics

In South Africa, sex workers speak of nurses that laughed at them, dismissed or shamed them for coming to a health clinic Tania has to shout to be heard over music blasting out of a brothel in downtown Durban, South Africa, where dozens of sex workers slouch in chairs under the red glow of the […]

Jihadist Aggression Spreading In Mali As 13 People Are Left Dead Following An Attack

Jihadist Aggression Spreading In Mali As 13 People Are Left Dead Following An Attack

The first attack by Islamic extremists in a central Mali town, in which 10 people died, shows that jihadist aggressions are spreading in the country and hitting more directly at the government military and the U.N. peacekeeping force, an expert said Saturday. Additional U.N. personnel may still be missing, said a U.N. official who spoke […]

Burundi Rejects U.N. Help To Resolve Its Political Crisis

Burundi Rejects U.N. Help To Resolve Its Political Crisis

Burundi on Sunday rejected a second U.N. diplomat named to help resolve the country’s political crisis, saying a critical report about last week’s parliamentary elections demonstrated bias. The tiny east African country plunged into turmoil in late April when protests erupted in response to President Pierre Nkurunziza’s bid for a third term. The opposition boycotted […]

Force Only Way To Oust President Nkurunziza In Burundi

Force Only Way To Oust President Nkurunziza In Burundi

A Burundian general who backed a failed coup in May threatened that he and others would launch an armed resistance after President Pierre Nkurunziza refused to bow to opposition and international demands to abandon a bid for a third term. General Leonard Ngendakumana, a deputy to the leader of the aborted uprising, accused the president […]

French soldiers molest 9 year old kids in Africa

French soldiers molest 9 year old kids in Africa

The boys said they approached the French soldiers because they were hungry. Some were so young they didn’t quite understand the acts the soldiers demanded in return. One boy, 8 or 9 years old, said he did it several times to the same soldier, “until one day an older kid saw him and told him […]

Kampala blazes a trail in cutting child deaths

Kampala blazes a trail in cutting child deaths

KAMPALA – Inside the second busiest hospital in Uganda, a Somali refugee gingerly paces up and down the maternity ward to ease her labour pains, passing a Congolese woman resting in bed after a Caesarean section. “I am happy because they welcomed me here. They help everyone, even if you are a refugee,” said Esther […]

UN Denies Child Sex Abuse Cover Up

UN Denies Child Sex Abuse Cover Up

GENEVA — The United Nations denies trying to cover up allegations of sexual abuse of children by French soldiers in the Central African Republic. It says a senior U.N. official suspected of leaking a confidential report has been suspended for having breached rules aimed at protecting the young victims. The U.N. Human Rights Office says […]

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