By Oral Ofori Special to the NNPA News Wire Mary Hamboga Matufi, a Kenyan musician and songwriter known in showbiz as Almaz says dropping out of school for lack of funds to continue her education and her society’s preference to push enterprising males than females up the academic ladder was still not enough to quell […]
Rwandans Mull over Possibility of Third Kagame Term
By Sam P.K. Collins Special to the NNPA News Wire from AllEyesOnDC.com Millions of Rwandans took to the ballot box last week to vote on a constitutional referendum that, if passed, would allow Rwandan President Paul Kagame to stay in office until 2034. The months-long debate about presidential term limits has placed the spotlight on […]
Blacks in Newsroom at All Time Low
by Stacy M. Brown Special to the NNPA from The Washington Informer Last week, The Huffington Post offered this bold headline: “There will be more non-white journalists because the public will demand them.” But based on an extensive study published in the Columbia Journalism Review, apparently no one is demanding black journalists; if so, no […]
Poll Finds Rising Exile Support for Obama’s Cuba Policy
April 3, 2015 (REUTERS) — A poll of Cuban-Americans shows support for the White House's new Cuba policy has risen in the three months since it was announced, with 51 percent now in favor of closer engagement with Cuba, up from 44 percent in December. The poll by consulting firm Bendixen & […]
The young, female face of HIV in East and Southern Africa
By Miriam Gathigah NAIROBI (IPS) — Experts are raising alarm that years of HIV interventions throughout Africa have failed to stop infection among young women 15 to 24 years old. “Prevention is failing for young women,” says Lillian Mworeko, HIV expert with International Community of Women Living with HIV in Eastern Africa, based in Uganda. […]
Iraqi Christians seek shelter in Jordan after IS threats
By Areej Abuqudairi AMMAN (IPS) — Watching videos and pictures on social media of the advance of the Islamic State (IS) inside Syria made it all seem far from reality to Iraqi Marvin Nafee. “We did not believe it,” said the 27-year-old, “it seemed so imaginary.” Only months later, his home city Mosul fell to […]
Zimbabwe’s rich fuel inequality through illicit financial flows
By Tonderayi Mukeredzi HARARE (IPS) — Zimbabwe has lost 12 billion dollars in illicit financial flows over the last three decades and experts say this illegal practice is perpetuating social inequalities and poverty in this southern African nation. A September report by the Zimbabwe Vulnerability Assessment Committee (ZIMVAC) estimates that 63 percent of Zimbabweans are […]
Pakistan’s Ahmadis faced with death or exile
By Beena Sarwar BOSTON (IPS) — Two years ago, gunmen shot dead Farooq Kahloun’s newly married son Saad Farooq, 26, in an attack that severely injured Kahloun, his younger son Ummad, and Saad’s father-in-law, Choudhry Nusrat. Saad died on the spot. In Pakistan after travelling from his home in New York for the wedding, Nusrat […]
Cycle of death, destruction, and rebuilding continues in Gaza
By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS (IPS) — When the international pledging conference to rebuild a devastated Gaza ended in Cairo over the weekend – the third such conference in less than six years – the lingering question among donors was: is this the last of it or are there more assaults to come? U.N. Secretary-General […]
Zimbabwe’s Family Planning Dilemma
By Ignatius Banda BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe (IPS) – Pregnant at 15, Samantha Yakubu* is in a fix. The 16-year-old boy she claims was responsible for her pregnancy has refused to accept her version of events, insisting that he was “not the only one who slept with her”. Now Yakubu has dropped out of school and, like […]
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