A senior corporate manager from Malawi, has publicly revealed intimate details about the paternity of four of children he assumed were his. The man’s revelations come after a DNA test proved that four of the six children he had with his wife, Miriam, were not his. He broke the news to his relatives on a…
NYATIKE, KENYA Scorching sun beats down on half a dozen women as they carry large sacks of crushed ore on their backs at the Osiri-Matanda gold mine near Kenya’s border with Tanzania. On wooden tables, they sieve the powdered ore into metal pans, add mercury, and heat the mixture over a charcoal fire. The air…
President Akufo-Addo has officially renamed the seat of the presidency, the Flagstaff House to Jubilee House. The decision was confirmed in a statement signed by Akufo-Addo, issued Thursday, March 29 after pictures surfaced on social media of the name being changed on the wall of the facility.This is the second time in nine years that…
A 30-year-old carpenter has been hauled before an Accra Circuit Court for allegedly defiling a 13-year-old girl at Ashaley Botwe in the Greater Accra Region. The accused, Richard Moncho, according to the police, in March 2018 lured the victim into an unused kiosk and forcibly had sex with her. He is said to have threatened…
AUSTIN, TEXAS While working for a big consulting firm in Lagos, Nigeria, Afua Osei repeatedly encountered women who wanted to advance professionally but didn’t know how. They needed guidance and mentoring. So, Osei and her colleague Yasmin Belo-Osagie started She Leads Africa, a digital media company offering advice, information, training and networking opportunities to help…
Dutch Company Delft Imaging Systems has completed the largest African e-health and tuberculosis project in Ghana known as 51 X-ray systems. The systems were installed this March across the country to accelerate Tuberculosis (TB) case detection in Ghana. This installation came ahead of World Tuberculosis Day that fell last Saturday, March 24. TB is curable…
Lagos, Nigeria — Brenda Uphopho was walking up the stairs in her office when she suddenly felt someone’s hand reach underneath her skirt. It was her boss.“I screamed, and he was shocked at my scream,” Uphopho, a festival producer from Lagos, told CNN. “And I was shocked that he was shocked.”Speaking out about sexual assault…
KYANGWALI, UGANDA In 2005, four young Congolese refugees in western Uganda opened a school for kids like themselves, separated from their families when they fled conflict in neighboring countries. Today, the school boasts about 500 students and continues to provide free education to unaccompanied refugee children or those whose families cannot afford to pay. The…
They often fled their homelands to escape sexual abuse – but for many asylum seekers, it continues in the UK. Fear of deportation typically means they don’t tell police, but one effect of the Harvey Weinstein revelations is that they have now begun to talk about their experiences among themselves. At the age of 37,…