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The climate crisis is a sexual health and reproductive rights emergency
27 Apr 2024 09:17 GMT
… with food and emergency medicine in humanitarian relief efforts … , forced marriage and unwanted pregnancy. Women are not only … for women and girls. In Mozambique, women report being exploited … urine for fear of being sexually assaulted.
So many women …
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Sex for grades: How lecturers across Africa prey on female students
27 Apr 2024 05:10 GMT
… across Eastern, Western and Southern Africa have published researched accounts … . A host of sexually enthused lecturers subsequently hold … has turned majority of African universities into commercial … dismissed.
In 2001, Zimbabwean leftist paper Daily News …
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Nairobi to Kigali: How East Africa's trio is tackling domestic violence
26 Apr 2024 03:50 GMT
… physical injuries or emotional disorder, how it affects … unintended pregnancies, induced abortions, miscarriage, stillbirth, and sexually transmitted … Zambia, all have a 41 per cent prevalence, and Burundi and Lesotho … across the East African region are running …
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Doomsday Cult Raid Highlights Abuses Of African Apostolic Churches In Zimbabwe
26 Apr 2024 01:43 GMT
HARARE, Zimbabwe — No money, no phones, no school, no medicine — and no questions.
This is what life was like in Canaan, the shrine of an African Apostolic faith church on the outskirts of Zimbabwe’s capital Harare, where police last month rescued hundreds …
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Govt to increase funding for sexual reproductive health
24 Apr 2024 23:27 GMT
Rumbidzayi Zinyuke-Senior Health Reporter
Government has pledged to increase domestic funding to ensure effective and accelerated progress towards the provision of Sexual Reproductive Health and Rights (SRHR) for all.
While the country has made significant …
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Namibian journalists shine at Merck Foundation media awards 2023
22 Apr 2024 21:11 GMT
Desert Radio presenter Charlotte Nambadja and The Namibian’s investigative journalist Sonja Smith won first and third place, respectively, in the Merck Foundation Media Recognition Awards 2023 for best radio and print documentary in southern African …
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“My wedding day was the last time I genuinely smiled”: husband calls women property after paying bride price
26 Apr 2024 12:45 GMT
Traditional wedding practices like the payment of a bride price is an important part of marriage in many African cultures. | Representative image courtesy Musa Dhlamini on Unsplash
HARARE, Zimbabwe ꟷ Many woman in Africa, especially those in Zimbabwe, wish …
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Rachel Sullivan Robinson Named SIS Scholar-Teacher of the Year
25 Apr 2024 18:16 GMT
… interventions in sub-Saharan Africa.
At the Scholar … sexuality education. Her book, Intimate Interventions: Preventing Pregnancy and … Senegal, Nigeria, and Malawi. Journals that have published … conducted field research in Namibia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Senegal, …
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Limpopo man sentenced for raping three young children
23 Apr 2024 20:15 GMT
The accused denied the charges, telling court the children only come to his house to view his woodwork. Medical evidence showed otherwise.
The Modimolle Regional Court on Tuesday sentenced a 33-year-old foreign national to three life terms for raping three …
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DRC is seeing its worst mpox outbreak — but has no vaccines or treatments yet. Why?
26 Apr 2024 18:45 GMT
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According to Africa CDC, 11 African countries have reported … been known to transmit sexually.
Other countries and … numerous African countries were banned after Botswana and South Africa shared … if needed – without basic medical care that you would …