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Jail Rape Convicts Sentenced To 15 Years Imprisonment In DRC
According to a report published in September 2020, fifty-six women were repeatedly raped during a three-day mutiny at Kasapa jail, Lubumbashi, a province in the Democratic Republic Of Congo. Three of the women were infected with HIV (which causes AIDS) and 16 became pregnant after the assault, according to lawyers for the victims. A court…
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A Look Into The Hike Of Diamond Price And Demand In 2022
Leading diamond exploration and retailing company De Beers recently raised their prices by 8%, according to a report by Bloomberg. De Beers raised prices of rough diamonds throughout much of 2021 as it sought to recover from the first year of the pandemic when the industry came to a near halt. Yet most of those…
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Fact Check: Can Viagra Be Used As A Cure For Covid-19?
Back in November 2021, a UK based nurse was admitted to Intensive Care after contracting the coronavirus. According to the Sun, 37-year-old Monica Almeida was placed on a ventilator after her condition deteriorated. However, Almeida recounts that Viagra was administered during treatment which opened up her airways and saved her life. Almeida eventually left the…
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Why Are People Protesting in Sudan? (Long Read)
While the Sudanese national team is keeping their heads high as they ball at this year’s AFCON, citizens meant to cheer them on are currently being slaughtered by security forces in the country. On Monday, Sudanese security forces opened fire on anti-military protesters, killing 7 and injuring around 100 others. Monday’s deaths push to at…
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Militia Attacks Spike Deadly Conflict in North-Eastern DRC
No less than 15 people have been killed in two deadly attacks by militia groups in Ituri, a region under siege in the north-eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), local sources said on Monday. Militiamen from the armed group Cooperative for the Development of Congo (Codeco) have been accused of being behind the recent attacks.…
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Global Employment Expected To Remain Low In 2022
A report by the International Labour Organization (ILO) has shared that global employment will not recover to pre-pandemic levels until at least 2023, with a projected shortfall in work hours worked in 2022 equivalent to 52 million full-time jobs. The United Nations agency said it had reduced its forecast for the year due to the…
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AFCON 2021: Cameroon Businesses Record Growth In Revenue
35-year-old Frederic Issa is a shoe cobbler in Yaounde. For the CAF games, Issa switched to the cab-hailing business with the belief it´s a profitable business now that the games have started. Tens of thousands of fans are visiting Cameroon to cheer their national teams, and with that comes the potential of an economic boost…
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What Should Low-Income Countries Expect In 2022?
The World Bank in its latest Global Economic Prospects report (PDF) predicts a fall in global economic growth from 5.5 percent in 2021 to 4.1 percent in 2022. While the economic growth rates in advanced countries are said to be sufficient to restore output and investments with a downward trend of 5 percent last year…
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US Researchers Offer Solution To Vaccine Inequality
Two years into the coronavirus pandemic and several variants later, the world is still struggling to vaccinate more than half of its population. Public health experts record that over 10 billion covid-19 vaccine doses have been produced since mid-2020, but more than 70 percent of the vaccines produced were consumed by wealthy nations. For instance,…
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Uganda To Destroy Donated Doses Of Covid-19 Vaccines
The Ugandan government has announced that up to 400,000 doses of the covid-19 vaccine donated for mass vaccination exercise in the Acholi sub-region of the country would be destroyed. Earlier in November, the government secured over 500,000 doses of Moderna vaccines with the aim of meeting its target of vaccinating 22 million Ugandans above age…