Kenya Drought-hit Kenyan farmers bank on goats as new currency
MWINGI, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Faced with increasingly scorching heat and drought that have lasted two years in Kitui County in Eastern Kenya, a community banking group has moved …
Soamalia Peacekeepers in Somalia use aid to rape women and buy sex for $5 - HRW
NAIROBI (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – African Union (AU) peacekeepers in Somalia rape women seeking medicine on their bases and routinely pay teenage girls for sex, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said …
Nigeria/Boko Haram The Canonisation Of Terror
The sheer weight of indignation and revulsion of most of Nigerian humanity at the recent Boko Harma atrocity in Yobe is most likely to have overwhelmed a tiny footnote to …
Ethiopia In Search for Power, Ethiopia Turns to Growing Sugar
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia — Eating and drinking in Ethiopia involves a lot of sugar, from the quintessentially Ethiopian buna (coffee) ceremony to the fare in pastry shops. But …
Nigeria is mired in violence and inequality. It's the girls who suffer
Look one way and my country is booming. Look another and there’s poverty and fear – exploited by Boko Haram. Mothers of the missing schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram wait …