By Nangayi Guyson – About six people in south Africa are facing murder charges after they allegedly stoned to death two young men suspected of stealing a mobile phone The group, including three women, allegedly killed the pair on Sunday evening, Limpopo Province police say. They have urged people not to take the law into their own hands. Correspondents say mobs often beat up and kill suspected thieves in South Africa, where many have lost faith in the justice system. “The taking of the law by the community into their own hands is strongly condemned,” Limpopo police spokesperson Lt-Col Mohale Ramatseba... Continue Reading
By Olusegun Ogundeji – According to a survey by Sierra Leone’s HIV/AIDS monitoring body, the National AIDS Secretariat NAS, an estimated 4,600 children under the age of 15 are living with HIV in the country. The disclosure was made at the second 3-day national consultative conference on children and AIDS which ended today. The previous edition was held in 2007. The survey says nearly 1,900 of the total child infection is through mother to child transmission. Children from various chiefdoms took part in the conference which has the theme: ‘invest in children, invest in the future’.
By Elias Mhegera – Our correspondent speaks to the people who have been hunted for reasons beyond their control as victims of superstition to find out what they think about the watershed moment of 2010 in Tanzanian politics. There is a saying in politics that there is no black and white. But some sections of our unequal society are forever lost in the shadows of the grey areas in politics. The albinos caught in their physical difference in a persecuting society need clearer support. Give us our rights in black and white, The Express was told. The secretary general of... Continue Reading
By Guyson Nanagayi – Kinshasa – Lt Col Mayele of the Mai Mai Cheka rebel group in DR Congo has been arrested by DRC army and UN peacekeepers over suspects that he led attacks involving the mass rape of hundreds of civilians.UN officials said. The leader was arrested after UN and DR Congo forces carried a joint operation in North Kivu province. A UN spokesman said Lt Col Mayele, who was arrested in the province’s Walikale region, was in custody at a Congolese military court in the provincial capital, Goma. A deputy in the Mai Mai militia, he was handed... Continue Reading
Bukavu, Democratic Republic of Congo – International Medical Corps has been awarded $10 million from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to assist survivors of Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) through the Bienvenue aux Changements dans la Communauté (BCC) program. As lead grantee, International Medical Corps will implement the program with partners Search for Common Ground and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs. While providing a comprehensive and innovative program to prevent SGBV, International Medical Corps and its partners will utilize behavior change communication to impact... Continue Reading
