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‘HASHTAG’ CAMPAIGN FOR KIDNAPPED GIRLS SPARKS DEBATE
Jun. 9 (GIN) – Is the social media campaign to bring back the abducted Nigerian schoolgirls an effective tool to win their freedom or ...
AFRICAN UNION TO CAMPAIGN AGAINST CHILD MARRIAGES
June 2 (GIN) – The West African nation of Niger has one of the highest rates of child marriage. About a quarter of all ...
NIGERIA TRIES TO STEM PROTESTS OVER ABDUCTED GIRLS
June 2 (GIN) – Under heavy pressure from civil society, lawyers and human rights groups, police in Nigeria are poised to reverse their ban ...
UGANDA WRITER DECLARES LIBYA ‘THE BIGGEST MESS’
June 2 (GIN) – Ugandan opinion writer Charles Onyango-Obbo took up his pen this past week to denounce the deadly meltdown in the north ...
NEW PRESIDENT OF MALAWI UNDER FELONY CLOUD
June 2 (GIN) – In his second try for elected office, Peter Mutharika captured the winning margin of victory and edged out Malawi’s first ...
MALAWI’S FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT FACES OUSTER IN DISPUTED VOTE
May 28 (GIN) – President Joyce Banda’s legacy may be cut short if a court fails to uphold her annulment of last week’s poll ...
NIGERIA CLAIMS TO KNOW WHERE KIDNAPPED GIRLS ARE
May 28 (GIN) – Almost a month after more than 200 boarding school girls were kidnapped by a militia group dressed as soldiers, a ...
DISTURBANCES MAR NIGER GOVT’S DEAL WITH FRENCH MINING CO.
May 27 (GIN) – Students and police clashed in the capital city of the West African nation of Niger this week over essential stipends ...
AFRICANS SHARE IN GRIEF OVER PASSING OF MAYA ANGELOU
May 28 (GIN) – Legendary poetess Maya Angelou was renowned in Africa much as she was beloved in the country of her birth. Comments ...
SOUTH AFRICAN SHORT STORY WRITER TO BE REBURIED AFTER LONG EXILE
May 19 (GIN) – A ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court may decide the final resting place for Ndazana Nathaniel Nakasa, a South African ...
